Mid-Autumn Festival

Last Thursday, we brought the kids to The Chinese Garden for the Lantern Festival 2008. This year's theme is Hello Kitty and other Sanrio characters. So the entire garden is filled with the various large-size lantern of Sanrio characters. It was pretty crowded considering it was a weekday. Lots of children and of course young adults who adores Hello Kitty and gang.

Both the kids were just looking at the light up characters that's all. They have not reached an age where they're overly crazy over a particular cartoon character yet. Probably it'll be more fun when they're older and more willing to carry their lanterns in their walkabout in the garden.

Yesterday was the actual Mid-Autumn Festival and the crazy us drove all the way back to Punggol to spend the evening in the old playground. Probably you have the same question as my maid,"Punggol?" Our reasoning was 80% of the people staying in Pebble Bay are either foreigners or non-chinese, so we don't expect there'll be a big gathering at the playground downstairs. We concluded we might as well go back to Punggol where we are ensured of a guaranteed turnout at the playground, let the kids play with other kids while we adults can catch up with old neighbours.

Judging by the state of sweatiness and tiredness while we were travelling back home, I'm quite sure the kids had a good time.