The Helix Bridge & the "Palm"

We often pass the Helix Bridge and the ArtScience museum as we travel on the ECP to / fro home. It's been around for more than a year, but I am ashamed to say that we did not manage to visit the area surrounding Marina Bay Sands until yesterday.

Christian's godparents will be returning to Perth soon.. (for some strange reason, he knows when they'll be going home, "AFter Chinese New Year right??" even though i don't remember ever telling him), so we decided to meet up with them to catch up before that. I'm so happy that Christian is himself around them, that he's the Christian I know and love, and not a shy shadow of the big personality I know. P says it's probably because he's seen them since he was young and they've been a part of his life since then..."He probably has a limited number of 'lifetime memberships' to give out to people and the godparents just happened to have one of the last passes." Hahaha.

Anyway, the little boy was fascinated with the sampans in the indoor 'canal' within Marina Bay Sands, so we paid for him and I to take a 10 minute ride within the shopping centre. He was so thrilled he forgot to be shy when the boatman asked if he wanted to help!

It was great to explore the interior of the new building, and emerge to see the ArtScience Museum which is shaped like a "palm" and which he kept hankering to visit every time we drove by. Godpa brought him into the deep recesses of the "palm" and took him to the loo, but the little boy was not satisfied and muttered during dinner "We didn't go inside the palm...we didn't go inside after the toilet.." I'm glad he managed to spend some time with his godparents, even though the evening was marred by quite a few frantic searches for nursing rooms since we brought Calista along. I think i'll try and avoid long trips with the little girl, at least until she is weaned from the breast...