{"id":14172,"date":"2011-06-21T07:15:56","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T23:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=14172"},"modified":"2017-01-19T13:59:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T05:59:56","slug":"staycation-activities-with-hannah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2011\/06\/21\/staycation-activities-with-hannah\/","title":{"rendered":"Staycation &ndash; Activities with Hannah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn\u2019t long after checking into Capella Singapore @ Sentosa that we both arrived at the same conclusion; that given how luxurious the place was (and that I paid a hefty bill for the stay), we both felt that we would rather spend more time in the hotel than in Sentosa itself! I don\u2019t think this will be the last time we\u2019ll visit Sentosa, especially since Hannah\u2019s at such a young age she couldn\u2019t appreciate the sights on the tourist-y island anyway.<\/p>\n<p>So, a few more pictures of our little outing.=)<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2011-sentosa-OLYP1103-capella\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/blog-2011-sentosa-OLYP1103-capella1_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"blog-2011-sentosa-OLYP1103-capella\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" border=\"0\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the garden-pool area of Capella Singapore. There was a back gate at the hotel which exited right at Palawan beach. There was a mosquito or two though in the 10 minute walk down, so we had to speed-carry Hannah on the walk down and back up later in the return journey.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2011-sentosa-OLYP1113-palawanbeach\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/blog-2011-sentosa-OLYP1113-palawanbeach1_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"blog-2011-sentosa-OLYP1113-palawanbeach\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" border=\"0\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Singapore really doesn&#8217;t have a lot of nice beaches, so this is about as good as it gets. We&#8217;d brought Hannah&#8217;s beach toys, but ended up not really spending too much time on the beach.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2011-sentosa-OLYP1114-palawanbeach\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/blog-2011-sentosa-OLYP1114-palawanbeach1_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"blog-2011-sentosa-OLYP1114-palawanbeach\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Didn&#8217;t take long before Hannah had to stop, and prompted Ling about sand in her shoes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2011-sentosa-OLYP1127-palawanbeach\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/blog-2011-sentosa-OLYP1127-palawanbeach1_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"blog-2011-sentosa-OLYP1127-palawanbeach\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The suspension bridge linking Palawan Beach to the southern-most point of continental Asia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2011-sentosa-OLYP1162-palawanbeach\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/blog-2011-sentosa-OLYP1162-palawanbeach1_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"blog-2011-sentosa-OLYP1162-palawanbeach\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hannah takes a good look at the sea at the top of the four storey tower. Guess who carried her up? Hint: Not Mommy. =)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2011-sentosa-OLYP1167-palawanbeach\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/blog-2011-sentosa-OLYP1167-palawanbeach1_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"blog-2011-sentosa-OLYP1167-palawanbeach\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" border=\"0\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">She&#8217;s getting real heavy!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2011-sentosa-OLYP1175-palawanbeach\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/blog-2011-sentosa-OLYP1175-palawanbeach1_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"blog-2011-sentosa-OLYP1175-palawanbeach\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" border=\"0\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the walk down, which she manages fine with support from the railings and one of us.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2011-sentosa-OLYP1185-palawanbeach\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/blog-2011-sentosa-OLYP1185-palawanbeach1_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"blog-2011-sentosa-OLYP1185-palawanbeach\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" border=\"0\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">We take turns to carry her, and not unexpectedly, I have an easier time carrying Hannah.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2011-sentosa-OLYP1215-capella-brushteeth\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/blog-2011-sentosa-OLYP1215-capella-brushteeth1_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"blog-2011-sentosa-OLYP1215-capella-brushteeth\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thought this was a cute photo. Hannah standing on a make-up room stool to brush her teeth.=)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2011-sentosa-OLYP1307-soup-spoon-iPad-time\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/blog-2011-sentosa-OLYP1307-soup-spoon-iPad-time1_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"blog-2011-sentosa-OLYP1307-soup-spoon-iPad-time\" width=\"275\" height=\"413\" border=\"0\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2011-sentosa-OLYP1308-soup-spoon-iPad-time\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/blog-2011-sentosa-OLYP1308-soup-spoon-iPad-time1_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"blog-2011-sentosa-OLYP1308-soup-spoon-iPad-time\" width=\"275\" height=\"413\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2011-sentosa-OLYP1318-soup-spoon-iPad-time\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/blog-2011-sentosa-OLYP1318-soup-spoon-iPad-time1_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"blog-2011-sentosa-OLYP1318-soup-spoon-iPad-time\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" border=\"0\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">More iPad pictures! This was at The Soup Spoon restaurant where we had lunch on the second day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2011-sentosa-2011-06-19 19.35.31\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/blog-2011-sentosa-2011-06-19-19.35.311_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"blog-2011-sentosa-2011-06-19 19.35.31\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" border=\"0\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dinner in Vivocity at the absolutely fabulous Go India restaurant. The restaurant whips out a North Indian buffet for SGD25 a head. Amazingly good stuff. Ling complimented the wait staff several times. The only camera I had on hand was the Samsung Galaxy S, so apologies for the pretty crappy pictures here.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2011-sentosa-2011-06-19 19.39.29\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/blog-2011-sentosa-2011-06-19-19.39.291_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"blog-2011-sentosa-2011-06-19 19.39.29\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The food was so good that Hannah kept asking for more. We were very surprised at how easily she adapted to North Indian cuisine. =)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"2011-sentosa-blog-DSC_5953-capella-family-photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/2011-sentosa-blog-DSC_5953-capella-family-photo.jpg\" alt=\"2011-sentosa-blog-DSC_5953-capella-family-photo\" width=\"550\" height=\"368\" border=\"0\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The family photo! Taken on the timer (didn&#8217;t bring the wireless remote). Come to think of it; the photo looks weird! We both have unglam legs, so we were trying to hide them with cushios.=)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn\u2019t long after checking into Capella Singapore @ Sentosa that we both arrived at the same conclusion; that given how luxurious the place was (and that I paid a hefty bill for the stay), we both felt that we<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2011\/06\/21\/staycation-activities-with-hannah\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Staycation &ndash; Activities with Hannah<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[513,137,508,511,363],"class_list":["post-14172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children-blues","category-traveling","tag-capella-singapore","tag-d300","tag-e-pl2","tag-sentosa","tag-sigma-18-250mm","wpcat-7-id","wpcat-17-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}