5th Birthday Celebration

All ready to go!

Yesterday, we celebrated Joash's birthday the way he wanted. He asked for a pair of sunglasses to wear on the day and really took his own sweet time to select them last Sat. I wonder where he picked up his sense of fashion? Hee hee...

Instead of a cake, he had Swensons' The Rock sundae which he ate all of it by himself!

The birthday prince

And off we went to the Jewel Box to take the Angry Bird themed cable car which came with complimentary masks and fruit punch.

Yellow mask

There were stations to play the Angry Bird game for free and so Joash passed the queuing time enjoying them. Jayna couldn't reach the touch screen and resigned herself to merely drinking the fruit punch. :P

Inside the cable car, there was a huge angry bird stuffed toy and a short Angry Bird cartoon clip shown on the TV for the first 5 min. 

Happy boy with the Angry Bird

Looking at the scenery

At Sentosa, we bought a small pair of stuffed toy Angry Birds for the 2 older ones to commerate the journey. Then, it was time to head off to the Underwater World. Joash has always loved watching fishes swimming in tanks everywhere we go. Now, he'd have a taste of the big aquarium and finally get to see the dolphins which weren't available at the zoo.

Putting his hand in to feel the fishes

It was really dark in there and the sea creatures swam faster than my camera was equipped to capture. Thus, I only got pics of two of them which moved slow enough for it.

Jellyfish

Seahorse

Waiting for the Dolphin show to start

And there they were!

It had been an unimaginably difficult day for me to get through and I could only have done so by the grace and strength from God. It was already a miracle that the weather was the best type for me: cloudy and windy. There were countless times when I had to fight blacking out and severe nausea due to standing still for too long, catching whiffs of people's body odour, bad breath or the smell of cooked food. Each time, I would hang onto God in prayer and somehow managed to avert disaster. I really would hate to spoil Joash's fun if anything untoward were to happen.

I didn't dare to eat or drink much the entire day in case I vomit and I'm really grateful that I only finally emptied the meager contents of my stomachs in painful retching the moment we reached home at night. I was so relieved that I made it! Thank you, friends, who had prayed for me to survive the day!

I'm so glad that Joash enjoyed the day tremendously. *grin*