Hiccupy birthday preparation

The run-up to Keston's birthday was pretty rocky.

Weeks before his party, I'd bought a Mickey Mouse singing balloon cos (a) he loves Mickey Mouse (b) he loves silly songs. We'd already planned to have the balloon inflated at the florist in Far East Plaza on the day before his birthday-do. The florist was closed at 5pm so we went in at 4pm to fill the balloon with helium. The florist had never seen this type of balloon before and insisted there was a tube missing from the mouth of the balloon and it cannot be inflated. We panicked, thinking the balloon is faulty and we didn't have time to buy another balloon! Luckily I managed to get hold of the seller of the balloon and was assured that the design was correct and would inflate correctly. However, we were still abit scared that the florist would burst the balloon. In the end, following instructions from the seller, we managed to get the balloon inflated. Problem came, problem solved.

I'd ordered some profiteroles for the birthday-do and arranged to do collection on Saturday night as we'd have to be in that area to pick up Keston's birthday cake. Just before we set off, I checked my email and got a msg that the profiteroles seller had something urgent on and would not be able to meet me. Panic again cos there's no way I'd be able to make it to Seng Kang on Sunday morning and be back in time for the do. Luckily the seller was apologetic enough and agreed to deliver on Sunday morning.

And then came the journey to Punggol-Sengkang. We have never been on the KPE. We have never been to Punggol-Sengkang area and it might as well have been a completely different country. HW was nervous bout getting into the KPE because he's basically an angsty driver. He needs to know exactly where and how to get to places. I thought I jotted down precise instructions but when we reached a fork, we were stunned . I believe 1 side said Tampines and the other Pasir Ris-- which to me, sounded like the same place. Thankfully we decided on Tampines in that instantaneous moment and it proved correct. It didn't help that the movement- activated singing balloon keeps bursting into song throughout the journey. Gave us both a few heart attack....after collecting the cake, we thought we knew exactly how to get back onto the KPE but ended up lost again!!! Haiz...

Sunday morning, I left $68 with HW to pay for the profiteroles while I went to shower. I came out of the shower and HW says the seller came to deliver and collected only $28 from him. I was suspicious, went to check and realised the seller delivered eclairs instead of profiteroles!!! Arrghhh...quickly sms-ed her to inform her of the error but she never replied. Hmmphh! But thankfully the eclairs were yumz!

I will blog separately about the birthday itself.