Kith Cafe Park Mall

The ladies and I dropped by Kith Cafe for a brunch birthday celebration.
When we arrived at 11am, all the tables were full, and we had to put our name on the waiting list, which had a few people in front of us.

The cafe is small, with maybe 20 pax max for indoor seating. Considering the hot weather, we made a special request to sit indoors.  We were then free to roam the place and wait for their call. Luckily, the call came quite soon as there was nothing much at Park Mall to interest us.

Menu page 1

Menu page 2

Menu page 3

We were seated at a corner, and it was a little difficult trying to get the wait staff attention, they seemed to be hurrying around.

Fresh juice at $5.50 a glass

Kith Macchiato at $4, (smaller than expected)

Ever popular Big Breakfast at $15.50

The big breakfast was very filling, couldn't finish my 4 pieces of bread. I had the multi-grain, scrambled eggs and vegemite. My friends had their toast with nutella, better choice! It comes with home-made strawberry jam, so if you order nutella, you'll get both the jam and nutella. Me thinks its better to order nutella, since you're going to be given the jam too. I like my bread with lots of spreads. ;)

We also had a Banana and Caramel Toasties (2 pieces of 'sandwich' maker bread) with grapes on the side. I thought the grapes was a nice touch!

A cheaper brunch place in town, if you're willing to wait. When we left at 1plus, the wait list was a couple of pages long. The big breakfast was tasty, but nothing really spectacular, maybe I was expecting more after reading lots of good reviews about it. Will be back if I'm in the area and looking for breakfast food.

Avalon Organics Shampoo

New Avalon Organics shampoo I bought from Mustafa over the weekend. Switching to organic shampoo after hearing the benefits. I wanted to get the Hair Thickening range for both shampoo and conditioner, but didn't see the shampoo at Mustafa. Will try it and review later! 

It was selling for $22.90 per bottle, as there was a 25% off, so at $17 each, it was cheaper than Watsons at $20.90.

Afternote:

The shampoo gave a very clean feel and smelt great (a mix of tea-tree eucalyptus). I needed to use the conditioner with it, otherwise my hair would be tangled. Conditioner works well. Thumbs up!

Gardens by the Bay

The boy and I made our way to Gardens by the Bay in consecutive weekends!

You must be wondering what's so attractive about it that brought us there, twice... well, we had free tickets. hehe

The first time we went, it was massively crowded! Queues and queues just to enter the two domes, I guess that was mainly due to it being the school holiday week in September. All the families were out in full force! We parked at the open air carpark as the signs showed that the covered carpark was full. 

*Beware though, the open air carpark is a distance from the main attractions!

Pathway to Gardens

We made our way to the Cloud Forest and Flower Dome and along the way there were flowers and pavilions making for nice photo opportunities. Interestingly, it was rather quiet at this section of the park, perhaps visitors were all aiming for the two domes.

In the flower dome! A picture says a thousand words, so let the photos speak for themselves!

Cactus greeting us at entrance

More cactus

Pretty colours!

If only I could hang this in my house

Nice spot for photo taking

Next stop was Cloud Forest, we had to queue to take the lift to the top level. Heard many people complaining about the long queues for the lift, and as usual there were many queue-jumpers and that irked those who guai guai waited in line. 

Massive waterfall greeted us

 It was kind of chilly here, so bring along a sweater, especially if you get wet from the waterfall.

Photos here all turned out misty...

Lastly, do try the flower ice-cream stall (Seventh Heaven) outside the two domes. Salty caramel was the nicest. If I remember correctly, each cup was about $4. No photos though, ate up before I could snap. We were hungry after the walk.

Speaking of food, I saw Bakerzin which was packed. I think more restaurants will only open in the later part of the year. Some visitors packed beehoon etc and had their own picnic there! 

We visited the SkyWalk the following week. At 22m, the scenery was great, windy too. We could see the flyer, and MBS. The MIL was a little scared of the heights, especially when she saw the 'mesh-like' floor. Before she looked down, she was happily enjoying the view! So do note if you bring along older folks/kids.

the ball by nightfall

and to end off with the supertrees!