...and then there were two!

Parenthood makes you more responsible. Ish.

Here are 4 holidays I will never forget.

1. Chiang Mai with PF, Nov 2005 : The flight was at 6.45am. After packing, we slept at 2am. "Just a short nap," we said. We woke up at 6.35am. I swear, I lost 5 years of my life just by looking at the alarm clock.
   
2. Phuket with Dawn, Dec 2001 : I planned this whole holiday - flights, accomodation, activities. What I didn't plan on though, was my sister discovering at 4am on the day of departure that her passport was missing. (She thinks she threw it away.)
   
3. Vietnam with PF, June 2001 : We booked a flight into and out of Saigon, but the 9 days in between, we didn't have any plans. Well, we had a rough one, but no transport or accomodation.
   
4. New York with Funny Bee, June 1998 : The original plan was London-Aberdeen-Backpacking in Europe with PF. In London, we changed it to London-Aberdeen-New York (w/o PF!) and I had to change my franc and lira into USD.

Scary, but it's these funny ones that you remember forever, not the ones where everything went according to plan.

Okay, back to DN's first holiday. Now that we're parents, we cannot pull this kind of stunt anymore, so I think this is the most prepared we've ever been for a holiday. Granted we've had one or two heart-attack moments...

• applying for DN's passport 10 days before flying off
• confirming all our accomodation 5 days before flying off

... but it's all good. DN has a passport (collected it yesterday, phew!) and we don't have to sleep in the rented car. We've got "prepared" coming out of our ears!

1. Perth is 2 days away, but we've started packing! (A feat in itself.)
2. We've got medicine for fevers, coughs, colds and allergies.
3. We're bringing over some Pigeon instant porridge meals.
4. We've printed out the contact details of the hospitals near us.
5. We've decided on the farms to visit - Landsdale Farm School and Sunflowers Farm.
6. And of course, our accomodation's all booked. :)

In Margaret River, we're staying at Bussells Bushland Cottages, 5km from Margaret River town. We booked a self-contained 1 bedroom cottage and the property promises "colourful bird and animal life, and walk trails that provide easy access to delightful Australian bush." Heh.

The cottage costs AU$120 per night and DN stays FOC because he's still an infant. We got a special deal for this cottage - stay 3 nights, pay for 2 - so it actually worked out to AU$80 (SGD$103) per night.


A bird house! How quaint!



I hope a wombat walks into our cottage. Hee.



















In Fremantle, we're staying at Harbourside Apartments, a 5 minute walk from the Capuccino Strip. We got a 1-bedroom apartment with a view of the Port of Fremantle. It's got a kitchenette, washer/dryer and FREE INTERNET ACCESS! Wooooo! I can blog!

This place is costing us AU$180 per night, no special deal. :( So that's about SGD$230 per night. AH! After paying SGD$103 per night in Margaret River, everything else is expensive.


We're on the 2nd floor, so I wonder what kind of view we'll get. -_-


Wah!



Oooh!