The finale for the Botanic Gardens 150th Anniversary celebration was a concert at the Symphony Stage. Another attraction was the Christmas trees adopted by various organisations like embassies, schools, government, VWOs, etc that lined the path in the garden.We made our way to the garden at about 4.30pm, as I feared that the car park would be packed. It was a mad rush for Sophia who had to prepare sushi in between fetching them from school and leaving for the garden. The weather always threatened to rain, but we had some time to look at some of the decorated trees while waiting for Jiajun's family to join us.
Some of the trees were very creatively decorated, while some were pretty boring and unimaginative.
Delcare also has a tree near the stage. In fact it was one of the first few trees after the obligatory ones from the embassies that lined the visitor centre entrance. It was quite well done up by the students of the after-school care, with hand prints from the kids from almost all the classes.
It wasn't long before we found the handprints of most of Oliver's classmates. And of course, we also found Oliver's yellow handprint hanging on the tree.When the Pans arrived, we settled down for our picnic and soon we were busy feeding the kids and making sure that they don't mess us up too much.
Mah Bow Tan was the guest-of-honour, and the concert was supposed to start at 6.30pm.
But obviously, his watch was not working properly. By the time he arrived it was 7pm. The concert finally got underway, but by then we felt drizzle and had to make the call to pack up and go, after the first piece was played. So all the waiting was really in vain. But luckily it was quite enjoyable and luckily we decided to leave as it began to rain quite heavily after we drove off. I wondered if the rain would dispel the crowd. It really is a pity if the people who came all the way for the concert didn't get to enjoy it due to the organiser not being able to keep to schedule.
