Our 16th Wedding Anniversary

How time flies....  Today is our 16th Wedding Anniversary....  We chose to celebrate it over dinner at the Long Bar Steakhouse at Raffles Hotel...  A simple quiet dinner with just the 3 of us....  Amanda was so sweet... She asked both of us to go for dinner without her...  but I told her we would love to have her around even though it is our wedding anniversary and she smiled so sweetly upon hearing that...

To sidetrack a little....  On 10 October 1993 we held our Chinese customary wedding....  It was a very significant date as the Chinese call it Double 10s....  and it also happened to coincide with the 8th month of the Lunar Calendar.... so it was a double auspicious date.... 

I could still recall during our Soka Japanese-style Wedding Ceremony in the morning, I was made to drink 9 cups of Sake and Daddy 6 cups...  I was quite silly then...  I should have just taken sips of it...  instead, I gulped down all 9 cups of Sake....  Thankfully, I didn't get drunk...  Haha....  Those were the days.... 

Pictures of our little dinner celebration below....

 outside the boutique at raffles hotel...

 dinner at long bar steakhouse, raffles hotel....

we love the bread... daddy had 3 servings of the bread...

 a family photo whilst waiting for food to be served...

 and more pictures...

  amanda enjoying her bread... she was given a box of crayons to do colouring while waiting for her food...

 oooh... the chair's too small for meeee......

 one dozen of escargots to start off our meal...

 daddy refreshing amanda's memory on how to grip the escargot without letting it fly off the table... just like what julia roberts did in the movie "pretty woman"... oh how i love that movie....

 she's a fast learner...

 and it was really yummy.... especially with tabasco sauce...

 amanda's main course.... she ordered scooby-doo....

 look at her lips... ketchup all over....  :)) she prefers to use the cutlery for escargots instead of her fork and knife...

 mmmm.... nice!!!

 daddy feeding me a piece of amanda's sausage...

 daddy's naughty! he was trying to stuff the entire escargot into my mouth??!!... haha...

 daddy and his nokia n97 phone....

 my 250grams of rib-eye steak.... this was the killer of the entire bill....

 daddy's pork.....

 babe's such a messy little diner....

 my steaming hot cuppa coffee which i always enjoy... oh by the way, this cuppa coffee costs more than amanda's scooby-doo main course....  

 happy 16th wedding anniversary!!!

  lovely chocolate mousse dessert - with compliments from raffles hotel....

 blowing out the candle together as a family...

the chocolate mousse was really delicious... and so well presented....

amanda having fun with the candle....

and she tried lighting and relighting and blowing it all over again...

 more family photos after our satisfied meal... food was good and service was great!

 at raffles courtyard....

 daddy caught me by surprise with this sudden tight hug which was quickly captured by amanda...  *smiles*

A simple and quiet dinner to celebrate our wedding anniversary... just the three of us.... but we definitely enjoyed the precious moments we spent together....