the ups and the downs

The Ups:
- This Brussels-Amsterdam-Brussels-Paris-Brussels holiday
- Taxis rides (dont need to take the metro/subway) LOL!
- The Asian food we ate whenever we felt like it (Indonesian, Malaysian, Thai, Japanese...)
- Joel growing his lower tooth here. So that makes it 2!
- Daddy buying things he likes, Mummy buying things she like, and Baby Joel buying things he might not like but no choice coz Mummy likes.
- Joel seems to have grown more (fatter) and cuter!

And the Downs:
- Always forgetting to ask for our VAT refund (which is about 15-20%!!!) Sob sob... :_(
(MUST remember, MUST remember...)
- Carrying Joel when he doesnt wanna stay in his stroller (which is very often now)
- Packing and unpacking every time we move in/out of a hotel
- Losing my cellphone
- Joel is getting grouchy and whines and screams...
- Joel's face is red and patchy from the cold weather esp in Paris. So he really looks like a China Baby now. LOL!
- ALL the shops are closed on Sundays except LV (coz their cash registers are ringing keching keching by the seconds)
- All the shops close at about 6pm. Many cafes/restaurants close early too.
- Getting a LV bag which has a thread-run in the middle of the fabric! How "lucky"!
- Just realising our return flight has a waiting time of 8 HOURS in transit. That makes it a total of 20 hours home! Joel & my tickets cannot be changed, and to buy another ticket to Amsterdam would cost us another S$1000+ for the 40-mins flight! So, we're gonna wait in transit and find something to do...SHOP! (What else?!) Total from check-in till reach home will be 1 full day! Faint!
- 3 heavy luggages home (which we thought would be much lighter after Joel finishes the milk & diapers). It was 2 suitcases when we came and it's about 60kg for both. Now...i'm not sure. Daddy will have a really hard time.