Holiday

Suffering from a flu bug, and with me on few days break, we decided we would head out to the Dandedong for a nite. We thought some fresh air would do us some good. We asked friends, who had kids, if they wanted to come along. They declined saying they needed more time to prepare for such trips. We got an idea of what they meant when we started packing. Instead of two haversacks, we found ourselves debating bringing along a pram, Siyuan's sleeping basket, how many toys and dappers. We ended up with at least three bags of Siyuan's stuff, and that's excluding his bed and toy.
We woke up late, struggled to fix a regulated traveling basket into the car, and headed out near noon in hot summer weather. We started to realize this was a bad idea. Never mind, let's press on. We then found that our accomodation was rather more way out than we thought, and worse still couldn't find any restaurants nearby. By the time we got there, wife (who's the driver) was exhausted. It was a beautiful place, but the prospect of having bread and instant noodles for dinner was discouraging.
Worse was to come. Siyuan, who was also down with the flu, decided he didn't quite like the new environment. His stuffed nose also meant he struggled to sleep continuously. And both of us forgot to bring medicine for wife, who also struggled to sleep with her nose.
To comfort him, I slept on the floor with his sleeping basket. At about 1 a.m. realized it was a very very bad mistake. Prepared for a hot day, I didn't realize it was chilling in the Dandedongs at nite. No more short breaks of this nature, we decided after this. We're better off, giving each other a couple of hours off by taking turns with the baby on weekend, we realized :)