Changi travels

It's 5am in Singapore .... For our bodies it's another, undefinable, hour.  We landed around 4pm local time on Saturday, following John's first ever long haul flight.

Our adventure started at 5 on Friday night - I came home from work to collect John and Laura, and we headed down to Heathrow via the underground and train.  A quick repack at the airport (we decided the Littlelife carrier would be better than the stroller around Heathrow), then our bags were gone and we headed to a restaurant for dinner.

John's bedtime came and went, and he remained in good spirits.  There were no delays at the gate, but we did ignore the 'board first' instructions so we could meet other travelers with babies and run off the final elements of the day's energy.

I sat behind Laura on the flight; Laura sat with two other parents with a very advanced 12 month old called Chloe.  She gave John a big hug when she met him, which left him nonplussed.  John was well behaved for the whole twelve hours - the same cannot be said for Chloe.  Singapore Airways has some high quality children's TV shows, as well as the all important touchscreen which John bashed away at from his bassinet. I managed to get through the whole of Mad Max before falling asleep.  John attracted the usual crowd of fans on the flight.

We took a taxi up to the Hilton on Orchard Road when we arrived, and decided to go straight into evening routine. There was a temporary moment of panic after it turned out Laura had already checked in for her five day stay last week .... but luckily the lady behind the desk found Laura was on there as 'Boyd Laura'.

By this point there is no doubt John was wondering why the fun in the middle of the day was curtailed - but he played along.  We all went out to the Ion Mall four our dinner, where we went to a Thai place because it had a children's menu.  The highlight though was my rice:

We came back, did bath time, then all clambered into the king size.  John has done a good job of taking the hint, giving his mother most of the night to sleep (with the odd attempt to climb over her and/or go to sleep lying on top of her.

I'll be waking the gang in the next hour and taking them down to breakfast.  As things stand, I suspect I am going tone the one struggling the most later this evening - I was woken by banging in the corridor about four hours ago, and have managed dozing at best since!