14 months; and the remaining holiday snaps.

Miss K is 14 months and she can walk very steadily now. Only started her first few independent steps while we were in Germany beginning of October.

When we tell her "go put on your shoes, we are going out".
She will happily go and select her shoes from her shoe rack, ask me to put them on, then stand up, go to the baby gate that blocks the kitchen and waves bye-bye to our westie.....then proceeds to the door!

A few interesting snaps from our October 2010 trip to Germany and UK. I love this wooden rocking horse at 'dm' (dm is something like watsons; a drugstore) in Munich. Am assuming it was stocking time, hence the large cart full of stuff in the background...

Rocking horse at 'dm'

while in the UK, I discovered Plum Organics...they have a wide range of snacks and baby food. Kate loves the blueberry, banana and vanilla smoothie, anyone coming back from the UK, mind helping me get some of those? :)

oh, this is her corn ring snack.

Those black cabs (has never been on one in Spore) are huge! I remembered my whole room could go into one black cab during Uni days...Whenever we get a cab in UK, the whole stroller+Miss K goes in, apparently its safer this way:

Will be short posts from now on until November ends....busy, busy, busy.

Munich 12 OCT 2010

I personally do not feel like a tourist in Munich anymore...but its Miss K's first...so, had to take a few snaps of her at the touristy spots while I stroll along for some retail therapy.
Our Hotel (Munich Holiday Inn - Never consider them if you have a choice!) is at a good location, only a short walk to Marienplatz but...its has the WORST service ever!!! 

Marienplatz 

Karlsplatz

The famous Gothic Church at Odeonplatz (- also meeting point for dinner as J's office is near odeonplatz)

Hofbrauhaus- good and cheap dinners, MUST top it all with A gigantic mug of refreshing Munchen beer!

Berlin-Munich-London-Birmingham-Singapore

Munich- London-Birmingham updates will be up as soon as I get the photos sorted :)

As for now, we are back in sunny Singapore!

Read from the papers (while in London) - the haze was real bad in Spore, was rather hesitant to be back, but thank God for the rain! love the rain! it cleared up the haze.

Was on a blogging hiatus for a while in UK as the T-mobile provider we were using did not allow me to create a blog in Blogger UNLESS i sign in with a UK credit card number! How weird is that!

Here are some photos of Miss K (which i took using my phone as we thought we lost our camera!), while on the Virgin train from London to Birmingham; enjoying her organix blueberry rice puffs.

More photos of our trip coming up...

Berlin IV

Day 5- SUNDAY
Sunday in Berlin is so dead quiet...no shops are open...papa has to work the whole day, so we ended up going to the nearby Tiergarten.

Fell asleep on our way to the duck pond in Tiergarten.

Day 6 - MONDAY
Decided to visit the 1.3km remains of the Berlin wall on the east side, just Miss K and I. Was rather difficult maneuvering/lifting Kate + stroller + backpack up and down stairs as some S-Bahn and U-Bahn stations did not have lifts!
Glad we bought an umbrella stroller as it was so much lighter than the normal ones.
It was a terribly cold day...my ears hurt, my fingers were so frozen after the 1.3km walk, and another 2km walk around Mitte thereafter.

Touristy gimmick - stamps used at checkpoints

The remains of the Berlin Wall is now a place for artists to express themselves, some are really artistic

Berlin III

And so....finally she is adjusting to german time.
Day 4 was spent at Potzdamer Platz in the morning. There were remnants of the Berliner Mauer (berlin wall) which has interesting illustration of the 'Berlin Story'.



And after a short nap, the lil' one was all happy for the next half of the day.

Had a nice stroll along the river and found some really interesting shops tuck away inside the cobblestone walks...

On another note, I was so glad I bought her these really comfy canvas-ey shoes from H&M on our first day in Berlin as she has now started walking and these shoes have kept her lil' toes all warm.Of course, she loves them too!

Berlin II

Yes, the lil' one is still on singapore time...Day 3 was a very sunny but cold day which was spent at the Schloss Charlottenburg, an exquisite baroque palace, a summer retreat of Sophie-Charlotte, wife of Friedrich III. Not as impressive as Versailles I have to say...

Entrance of Schloss Charlottenburg

The Schlossgarten was very pleasant. The lil' one is finally awake after a nice stroll along the park:

Happy after a long nap

And so its now milkymilky time!

We decided to swing by Alexander Platz for lunch and some shopping.
When its time to sightsee, yes you are right, its the lil' one's nap time again!

Marienkirche

Altes museum (old museum) at Lustgarten (built in 1830)

Berliner Dom

Am rather pleased that the lil' one loves her bottled baby food, especially these german ones...best of all most, if not all of them are organic.

Guten Appetit!

Berlin I

Failed TWICE to get to post as Blogger is in German and somehow I can't seem to 'create blog'. Anyway, as its working now, I better get blogging!
Hello from Germany!

DAY 1- WEDNESDAY
What amazes me is that baby who travels in a cab needs to be strapped in a baby seat. Miss K had her first cab ride in a Berlin cab:

First day was spent shopping and walking along Charlottenburg area where our hotel is.

DAY 2- THURSDAY

Visited Charlie Checkpoint and the site where the Berlin Wall once stood. This is the remains of the wall...the whole area is very touristy.

Would have to update with photos of the checkpoint once i get my hands on picasa.

Miss K is on Singapore time, so most of the time she is asleep while we sightsee:



Sleeping in front of Konzerthaus Berlin at Gendarmenmarkt.



Still sleeping while we were at Pariser Platz



And finally awake during dinner time!

Side note:
The Reichtag is a 'must see' in Berlin, the work of Norman Foster compliments the old and the new Berlin magnificently. We saw the bundestag (parlimentary) session taking place while we were there:

view from top of the bundestag in session



Boats and Buffet

It was Miss K's second visit to the Ellenborough Market Cafe for High Tea Buffet. The standard has dropped quite drastically and the price has increased! Unfortunately, I might have to cross it out of my 'Buffet List'...used to serve really good value-for-money peranakan buffet, such a shame...

The Singapore River is a saving grace...Miss K loves to see the boats bobbing by...and its always very pleasant to stroll along the river on a lazy saturday afternoon;