Date: 15 January 2014 Wednesday
We took almost 4 hours to pack our luggage the night before, double the time compared to our previous trips. There were tons of baby stuff to bring along with us this time. This was Rainie’s first time travelling hence being the kiasu parents, we squeezed everything we could into our luggage. I felt very reluctant to travel this time. MIL & JZ will be travelling with us again and we had to leave our dogs behind at home with the maid only. Moreover I would have to go straight back to work after a 5.5 months long break! I did not look forward to this trip at all! 🙁
We confirmed our trip about a month prior to the trip and started to plan the itinerary. I tried to pack as much as I could into the 10 days Taiwan trip but decided to keep it simple in the end since we were having a baby with us and we shouldn’t put too much stress on her. We finally came up with the planned itinerary:
We left home early in the morning to catch the 08:30 AM flight, SQ876 SIN-TPE.
07:00 AM Singapore Changi Airport
We started our vacation with breakfast at the airport.
Rainie was already wide awake!
08:30 AM SQ876 SIN-TPE
Fast forward… Soon we were on board the flight to TPE. We were given the first row with the bassinet. All went well as planned. Rainie was quite well behaved except a little fussing when we were moving off the runway.
Family photo
Where is baby?
There she is!
Nap time
We didn’t use the bassinet a lot on the flight. Rainie didn’t fancy the bassinet very much and we had to carry her when she was awake. Luckily SIN-TPE is a short flight.
13:40 PM Taipei Taoyuan International Airport
We arrived in Taipei Taoyuan International Airport at 1+ PM. We skipped the long queue and cleared customs in a breeze because we had Rainie with us. The officer had directed us to the priority counter when they spotted Rainie.
I read that the Baby Room in the airport is very well facilitated so we popped over to take a look and also to change Rainie’s diaper.
Free diapers of different sizes and wet wipes are available in the room. We didn’t use the items there as we did not know if Rainie is allergic to them. Better play safe since we were overseas. We bought our 10 days dataplan sim card before leaving the airport.
Wrapping Rainie up with a thick blanket to keep her warm.
On our way to collect our rental car…
14:45 PM Carplus @Â Shilin Dist.
Taipei Taoyuan International Airport -> Carplus 43.9 KM, 35 mins
We were about 30 minutes early according to my itinerary. After completing all the paper work, we got our rental car and started our road trip. The first destination was to pick the rest of our group from Cosmos Hotel. They had flew into Taipei a day earlier and should be waiting for us at the hotel lobby.
Gigantic car
We had requested for a baby seat with the car which was too big for our little Rainie.
It should be safer to carry Rainie in my arms…