Birthday Staycation

This Mama observes that events in life (her life, anyway) tends to happen in clumps of three or more. True enough, right after we went looking for Kecil's birthday gift at the expo in Manila, we had to go back, 2 times, because Daddy had to attend meetings there that would require staying overnight.
Sure, Daddy could have gone alone, but since we could fit (one of) the trips with Kecil's school, why not we all come along and have fun together?
Especially for the second trip, where the office actually provided the accommodation. Wouldn't miss it for the world.
So off we went, braving the chaotic roads, the jams, the bad air, the noise, well... basically all the bad things associated with living in a densely populated metropolis.

We didn't take pics during the first trip since we only stayed one night and we arrived at the hotel pretty late at night, thanks to all the traffic jams.
The second trip, on the other hand, required 2 nights stay in a nice hotel. Does that kind of explain the more picture? I guess so.

So... this time round, we arrived at the hotel sometime in the evening on Sunday (we left the house sometime after lunch), had dinner, rest. The following morning, we had breakfast, Daddy left for the office while Mama and Kecil went off exploring the nearby mall.

The mall is the one we always visited every time we followed Daddy for his meetings. As usual, Kecil was very interested with the ponds in the inner courtyard, where we spent quite a bit of time watching the tortoises as well as the pair of geese who made the ponds their home.

Kecil even managed to sneaked in some buffalo riding! Not quite an improvement as compared to last year's (real) horse riding I suppose. But she's happy, all right.

Strangely enough with this Kiddo, despite enjoying the parks at the mall, Kecil showed pretty strong preference to just stay in the hotel room. So... after a trip to the supermarket for some necessities, we went back to the room to have our lunch.
Yes... she did have some cup noodles, no thanks to the minibar display in the room. Grrrr....
She also got some chocolate, but just not those from the minibar. We bought hers at the supermarket, thank you.

We think Kecil really enjoyed her stay in the hotel. She was very happy to simply stay in the room, rummaging around, playing with all the amenities provided, and of course, taking her own bath in the bathtub. (Mama was summarily dismissed from the bathroom once the water level was deemed sufficient for her bath)
There are a few more pics from the staycation, but perhaps we'll keep that for the next post. Until then!