A lovely lazy Diwali with the family

It’s always nice to have a day off mid-week, and today was caused because of the fantastic celebration of Diwali. Happy Diwali to all my friends out there. We ended up having a wonderful day out, Maxi Cab 1st with the gang to Gardens By The Bay, a lovely lunch at Peach Garden, up the Skywalk, a wander round FlowerDome, a walk along the river, over the Barrage, down the the other side and dinner at Kontiki. Yes a lot done, but it really was A lovely lazy Diwali with the family. Here’s some snaps now of the lovely day itself.

We started at Satay By The Bay, but because of Diwali about half the stalls were closed, so we took a brisk walk through the gardens to Peach Garden. On the way though, a beautiful heron out on the hunt. Dude there’s a huge fish at 5 o’clock, if you can’t see it. I’m nearly 50 and I can ha ha!

As I mentioned, it was indeed the gang!

It really is beautiful here, they have done a great job!

Of things trees and domes!

22 metres up and it is Skywalk time, great views and a great breeze, phew!

Just to let you know that I was actually here this day. Here’s the boys. Jude’s demand today was always; “Boys!” Which meant we all had to link hands, bless!

Artsy snap, in the Chinese Gargen.

And now we enter Flower Dome to witness Mother Nature at her best. My Nan would love this place, bless her. Also of course Mum, Miz and Yuko. It is so beautiful, and really peaceful. I couldn’t stop snapping. Ollie and Amy got in on the act too. Beautiful. And of course, it is themed at the moment for Halloween. Well worth a visit.

Jude really was on form today. Because of Halloween they have all these little statues and themes everywhere. Here is Jude pretending to be The Queen of Hearts, from Alice in Wonderland (see her behind him!)

A rather inappropriate cactus methinks!!! Or me cos I spotted it???

“Look at my new shorts Dad, it’s the same cactus behind me!”

“Dad, Dad, the man eating plant is eating my finger, ahahahahahaha!”

I remember this one is called Galaxy, no guesses why. Amy’s 2nd favourite flower apparently!

Reminds me of someone’s tattoo.

I was mandated to take this picture of the weird fruit man, with the girls. Not my kind of thing, but for the girls of course!

Wooooo, scary Baby Jude.

Scarecrow twins?

That’s that and now we’re off for a lovely walk all the way along the river, over the barrage and over the other side. Almost like walking home, back in the day when we lived in Costa Rhu. Love it along here.

I don’t need to say anything, the sign says it all!

HUGE monitor lizard, as in HUGE. We saw it on land before it dived in the pool. Daddy-pedia; called monitor lizard because the ancient Egyptians used to use the lizards to detect crocodiles in the Nile. Yep bind their front feet up and stick in the water, if they lay still and calm all is good, if they go bananas crocs are on the way – hence they monitored. WOW!