Trip to Batam - second day

Golden View Hotel is not near the city.   Good thing the hotel provides transport to 3 shopping malls.   Alas!  We missed the first transport service.   The second service will be in late afternoon.   It happened that the hotel manager was at the lobby.   My brother spoke to him and he arranged a trip just for us since there were 9 of us.   While waiting for the bus, the boys ran around and played at the lobby.

There was a mini playground at the other end of the restaurant where we had breakfast.   Png Png played there while waiting for the bus.

We shopping at Batam City Square, BCS in short.   The tour guide who brought us around yesterday said that BCS stands for Batam cha bor swee (meaning Batam girls are pretty).   She is a humurous guide.

Png Png was very happy riding this toy car in the supermarket.   We were very relied to find this toy car in the supermarket.   Png Png wanted to be carried most of the time.   My sister in law's brother carried Png Png most of the time as my hubby brought Chen Chen around instead of shopping with us.

The boys said they were very tired and sat on the side of the escalator while waiting for the transport service back to the hotel

We booked Lunar New Year eve dinner at the hotel.   We were early but my parents, brother, sister in law and her brother were sleeping.   In the end, we were late for the dinner.  The choice of food was very limited and nothing special.   There was a table with a giant plate of yu sheng.   I learned that the hotel guests came together to lao yu sheng at that table.   We missed it.    After dinner, there was lucky draw event.   As there were very few guests and there was a big group of us, we got many lucky draws.   Chen Chen went up to the hotel staff to pick the lucky draw ang pow which was hung on the fortune tree.













Png Png's turn to go up to the fortune tree to choose the lucky ang pow.   The prizes weren't fantastic.   We got some discount vouchers, a night complimentary stay at the hotel (not applicable on week ends and public holiday).   We didn't make use of the vouchers and the complimentary stay.  The best prizes were 3 SGD2 ang pows.  

Were loitered around the hotel after the lucky draw event.
At the lobby

At the mini playground

My hubby wanted to sleep and Chen Chen wanted to play iphone games. I brought Png Png and joined my brother to loiter around the hotel premises. There were hotel guests playing fire crackers and fireworks. It was BEAUTIFUL! But I didn't bring my camera along oh....