It's all about logistics

The longer I'm a patent the more I think I'd be awesome as a logistics executive. Scheduling, preparing, planning, following through... I'd be genius. And it's what I fail at most traveling. To keep the routine is imperative to the machine working really well. The problem is that our travel time is often spent with others--not just our own nuclear family. And this always throws a wrench in the plans. And I'm telling my mother-in-law that it's all in the anticipation of what usually comes next. The regularity of our time. I'm always looking ahead to what's next and how I can ease my kids into it. Trying to stave off fiascos and incidents. I think it's why Econ Man comes home from a day with the kids all frazzled and bewildered why the kids melted down. He's really wonderful, but not so good in the logistics/schedule/anticipation thing.
But I myself have been completely failing at this traveling with others and so today I decided enough is enough and that my kids absolutely must have a nap--a long one--this afternoon, if they are to be good kids over dinner tonight at a nice restaurant with a friend. So this is what we work towards. Food, play, wear them out, put them to bed, wake them up, snack, to the restaurant (don't stay too long), and back home to swim and wear them out again, then showers, then to bed. It's all in the logistics. And it worked.






Only Dash. He had a Kung Fu fight with the wall and lost. Busted his ear and it swelled up like a purple grape.


Tess' new favorite playground at Food For Thought at the Botanical Gardens. A great food outlet for all day breakfasts. The queue was long. Lots of Asians and a few expats. Really good pancakes, and the mocha hit the spot. Fairly cheap for Singapore (a notoriously expensive island). It was remarkably amusing to see so many Asians consuming American breakfasts at the same time. Like a bunch of Americans going out for Dim Sum breakfast in China Town.





Sorry vegetarians, we are a thoroughly protein fueled family.








Spent the next part of our time at the Botanical Gardens in the Jacob Ballas Children's Garden. So much fun. Our kids are such cowboys. They kept running over the suspension bridge with sheer abandon while the Asian families ogled them and slowly crept over the bridge with great precaution and trepidation. Very amusing.





The boys learning about photosynthesis. The whole if the gardens gear toward teaching children about how plants work.


After our aforementioned mandatory nap time we joined our friend Brandon Chen at my all time favorite Chinese restaurant at the Shangri La hotel just a few doors down from our apartment. Northern Cantonese. Really amazing food. My kids practically licked the table clean. And they were good. Really good. So we promised them dessert and a swim when they returned to our apartment.












In-laws leave tomorrow. We'll miss them. Econ Man is still in Beijing, so I'm on my own with the kiddos till he returns. Wish me luck!

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