A day full of treat

Last Tuesday (12 December 2006) we all went to the town centre. As usual, this time of the year, every shopping centre is decorated with Christmas decorations. The one in the photo above was taken in West Orchard building. It's a simple design of stars suspended from the atrium and the usual Christmas tree.

Also as usual, Amar was asleep the first half of our time in the town. The weather is already getting so much colder nowadays. We had to wrap ourselves with extra layers of clothing. By the way, I heard from the news that it is a record that it is still 'mild' at this time of the year. I have already forgotten what it was like when it was not 'mild'!

This is what it's like staying in a four season country. When it is winter, you will feel so cold and feels like there is no end to it. You cannot imagine what summer is like. Comes summer, you will be enjoying the sun and sometimes complain how hot it is and you forget that at the end of it there is autumn.

As I said, it was so cold. Our fingers were numb. I think my face was frozen too, it was difficult to talk. Mind you, this is still 'mild'! We stopped at a stall selling gloves, scarves and woolly hats. Babah bought a pair of gloves for himself. I couldn't help but to get a pair for myself. They were so cheap! We wanted to buy mittens for Sarah. But she wanted proper PINK gloves. The stall didn't have it.

Luckily we found the perfect pink gloves for Sarah and a pink Barbie umbrella from another stall. Sarah was so happy, she couldn't stop smiling and insisted to walk in the rain with her brand new umbrella. I was quite happy with the purchase, cheap but quality stuff.

We had our lunch at Pizza Hut. Amar was still sleeping in the pushchair when we first arrived at the restaurant. Sarah was kept busy colouring her activity book. So it was a truly pleasant lunch with no whining children.

We were already at our third course when Amar woke up. We placed him in a high chair and gave him the food that we saved for him earlier. I was so glad he didn't create so much fuss. In fact he was sort of dazed by the decoration lights displayed in the building. That kept him occupied for a while.

Before we went home, we treated Sarah with a few rides. Ever since she was small, she has this passion with these funfair sort of rides. If you can see in the photo above, the fare was only £1.50 per ride.

Sarah had another go at the above car racing circuit (whatever they called it!). Of all the cars available, she chose the pink Barbie volkswagen. I'm not sure if it was the colour pink that caught her eyes, or the picture Barbie or the name volkswagen? But anyway, it was so much fun looking at her enjoying the ride. She smiled, laughed, squealed, waved, beamed. Total happiness! At the end of it, we knew that she could do with another round. And she asked "Dah ke?" with a smiling face. I gave her a long "Dah" and she was completely OK with it. (pheeeww!)

Of course we wanted to give Amar a ride too. But Amar was not ready, he gave us his worried face and he didn't let go of my neck when he was already in one of the trucks, so I had to carry him out again.

Finally on that day, ALL of us went on a carousel. As usual Sarah was delighted with what must have been an endless treat for her. She was on a horse alone, Babah rode on another one next to her. I wanted to ride on a horse with Amar, but Amar was just plain scared so both of us sat on a static carriage (whereas the horses went up and down when the carousel moved).

That was it. Our day full of fun in a very cold day in December.