November was a fun, but busy, month for us. It started off with juggling International Day and the Marine Ball on the same day. Vivian was working the haunted house for International Day, so we didn't really see her, but Elena wanted to do EVERYTHING and try all the food, so Jeff and I were kept busy chasing around after her.
At first, she had a little trouble figuring out how to leverage herself through the inflated circles.
But once she figured it out, she made full use of her bouncy house time to bounce herself around as much as possible.
She learned some cultural games and tried food from different parts of the world, but, as always, Jeff found the best food in the whole place, Korean barbecue chicken.
We couldn't stay very long though, because I had to go and get my hair done for the Marine Ball that night. It was at the Mandarin Oriental, so we decided to stay there overnight to make things simpler. We got a nice room with a park view, and we ordered some appetizers to share with friends, so that we could pre-party a bit.
We ended up having a fun night. There was the usual pomp and circumstance at the beginning.
The food was good overall, and we got some pictures of us all dressed up and with our friends before we all started dancing.
One of my favorite parts of the weekend though, was room service breakfast. Even though it was rainy, we still had our big window and a great breakfast spread.
Our busy weekend wasn't done yet though. It was also opening weekend of the new Black Panther movie, and we had promised the girls we would take them, so after fueling up on breakfast, we headed home to retrieve the girls. Then, we all went to Pavilion to watch the movie.
It definitely wasn't as good as the first one, but it's fun that Elena is now old enough to come to the movies with us.
We finished off a fun November with my favorite holiday, Thanksgiving. Since the school is international, we don't get U.S. Thanksgiving off, but I do have two personal days a year I can use, so I took one for Thanksgiving, and the girls took the day off too.
Noby and I started the day off with stuffing and turkey prep.
We had a bit of drama in the turkey acquisition. There was a turkey shortage this year, and so Noby had put in a special order, but we were worried it wouldn't come in time. Then, she got a WhatsApp message that one was available at Hock Choon, right then, so we scrambled to get some money, she got in a Grab, and returned triumphantly with a turkey. This year I was very thankful for Noby, who is the reason our household hasn't completely fallen apart in the chaos of me going back to work full time at a really intense job.
We also had a bunch of friends over for our Saturday "Parade Day", but we realized after the fact that we were both so busy hosting that neither of us took pictures. We tried a bunch of different sausage varieties for the sausage balls this year though, which was fun, and we can't wait for next year's party to repeat the ones that got the best reviews and maybe try a few new ones. It was a great way to wrap a busy month.
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