Happy Valentine's Day

This is the second Valentine's Day that I spent being pregnant. What an interesting thought. Anyway, this year we are checking in to the Ritz Carlton for Valentine's Day. Before you think it's such an extravagant thing to do.....let me tell you....the stay is FOC...hahaha

I got a free hotel stay voucher when I attended the Mariott Vacation Club thing last year and was trying to see if I could use it for the Valentine's Day and I can.

We went to Isetan at Scotts first to see if I could get the thermal magic pot thing and saw that it was selling at half-price now and i still have a S$20 voucher so in the end, it was quite worthwhile to get the pot. I am not sure what happened when I was in Isetan but suddenly I am out of breath and I felt really giddy and I can tell you if I did not manage to sit down in time, I would have fainted. Both my hands were numb and I was perspiring cold sweat. It was terrible. After a short rest, I finally felt better.

Then we made our way to Ritz Carlton and what greeted me shocked me. The queue to check in was so long. Talk about economic crisis, but maybe they have vouchers for free stays as well..hahaha. You see couples and families queuing up and the staff there kept serving drinks to those in the queue. I was asked 3 times if I wanted to sit and wait instead of joining the queue with Philip which I declined politely. I think we stood in queue for about 45mins before we finally reached the check-in counter.

They did not have a ready room for King size bed but offered to give us an upgraded room to a marina bay view room instead of the kallang bay view room hat comes with the voucher but with twin beds instead. I was so tired by then that I don't want to wait another 2 hours for my room so decided to just take the room.

It was exactly like the one I stayed in 2 years back for Philip's birthday. So I didn't bother to take any photos of the room. We brought along 3 DVDs to keep us occupied for the stay.

Initially we wanted to order room service but when we tallied the total cost, it would cost us like S$250. Then we decided maybe we could try their buffet in the restaurant but there are oysters, raw salmon which I can't take now so we decided it's better to go out and eat. We went over to Millenia Walk and decided on Outback Steakhouse as Philip wanted to have steak. But we are faced with yet another long queue. So in the end, we went over to this Japanese restaurant called Raku-zen. The food is pretty good and reasonable.

We had lunch instead the next day at Outback Steakhouse and Philip got to have his steak although he said it's not too good. As we had late checkout till 4pm, we lazed around the room till it was time to check out. The checkout was super fast. And I even got the complimentary parking coupon which otherwise will cost us almost S$30 for the parking.

And that concludes our Valentine's weekend. Looking forward to the next one where we can spend with our little baby.