On Thursday, Kelvin and I celebrated the end of our 3rd year together (and the start of the 4th).The day kicked off with us making our way to People's Park to book our first real holiday together, which is a short trip to Phuket to chill out. (Digression: Gotta love trying to pronounce "Phuket" phonetically, just like "Krabi". It tickles me to no end that, for her holiday, my sis had been trying to choose between Fukette and Crabby. Pls excuse my irreverence. Teehee.)
Next stop was the surprise spa treat I'd arranged for us. Unfortunately, it was raining something awful, and the jacuzzi part had to be scrapped as it was semi-outdoors (i.e. was partially sheltered by a wooden canopy). We had a foot spa substituted instead, during which a therapist found herself in a probably unusual situation of exfoliating a pair of really hairy legs. Kelvin also got his first taste of being cling-wrapped a-la-chicken wing.
After the foot spa and body scrub (during which the ever-ticklish Kelvin giggled when his armpits and foot soles were invaded), the rain had stopped, so we decided to swap the massage for the jacuzzi soak, complete with grapes and wine. The therapist warned us, "The jacuzzi might be a little cold at first, but it's meant to warm up after you've sat in it awhile." That didn't prepare us for the ~cold~ water that had been sitting in the rainy weather, lovely flower-strewn and bubbly as it was. Even huddled together, we were both shivering and regreting having given up the massage. But after a few goosebumpy minutes, it was indeed warm enough to lean back, relax and start tossing flower petals at each other. After reviewing the design of the jacuzzi tub, we came up with the hypothesis it was probably built to discourage making out, what with the uneven base (raised portions to enable users to lean back in comfort) and oddly-placed water nozzles.We got fireworks at dinner! (Kelvin jokingly exclaimed, "Surprise, dear!") Everyone at Al Dente's halted eating and fraternising to catch the lovely display. We later figured that the fireworks were from the River Hong Bao event nearby.
And to top off an almost perfect day, we had the largest, most gorgeous chocolate fondue!
On the left platter, you can see the remains of the strawberries, green apple and a VERY generous serving of banana (yay!). The milky stuff is what was left of the vanilla gelato. On the right platter, there were Oreo chunks, pistachios, biscotti and marshmallows (I got to polish off most of the marshies as Kelvin doesn't like them - double yay!). And note the large and surprisingly deep bowl of bittersweet chocolate. If it weren't unbecoming to lick off the bowl in public, that's what I would've done.Not that we're letting our anniversary make Valentine's Day redundant. No commercialised dinner sets for us. A lovely day at the beach and a quiet, simple dinner. Plus I've got a present for Kelvin that I hope he'll like - I myself like it very much.
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