Merry Christmas! I had to start off this blog post with the cute Santa log cake from Coffee Bean even though we actually ate them the night before, haha.
Anyway, for a few years now, we have been going to the Christmas Wonderland held at the Gardens by the Bay. The event just got bigger and bigger and we remembered the first time they had such an event, it was pretty low key and also free. But now they have added stalls and turned Gardens by the Bay like a mini Christmas Village. And yes, this time we had to pay like how we did for the couple of years I think.
Click here for more details and the ticket pricing for the Christmas Wonderland. It's on until December 26th so if you read this post today, or even tomorrow, there is still time.
The highlight was of course the dancing 'trees' where the Supertrees would display dancing lights to the rhythm of popular Christmas songs. Last two years, they had been playing Mariah Carey's 'All I want for Christmas is You' and Ariana Grande's 'Santa Tell Me' but this year round, they played more classier version of Christmas songs with the exception of one by Michael Buble. I got a little bored because I didn't know most of these songs, haha. But perhaps those who actually celebrate Christmas may find these tunes more familiar and homely feeling.
Another highlight was the hourly rain of 'Snow' which was basically fake snow made out of foam coming out from several machines. But now, instead of crowding inside the tower, the machines were placed outside at several spots so we didn't have to squeeze ourselves with the crowd inside to enjoy the fake snow on our hair and taking pictures as though we were really basking in the snow, haha.
There were also several paid events inside but like how one person we overhead commented, everything must pay, we didn't have to subject ourselves to forking out money every now and then. Okay, maybe that one time I paid $10 for some overpriced Nachos and mere sprinkles of sauce on pre packaged chicken pops.
Anyway, it was still interesting to walk around taking many pics and speaking of pictures, there would always be this one photo booth that was very popular with snaking queues, just for people to pay for a polaroid picture. I guess they want to commemorate their special time at the Christmas Wonderland especially with the couples in lurrveee. But from the pics below, there were many interesting sights to take couple pictures without paying. Then again, what would I know? haha..I was even there with my younger brother.
This would make an appearance at the Gardens during this festive period.
So inside the crystal tower was this maze of mirrors, not crazy mirrors though, where people would take videos and pictures of themselves facing the mirror. I tried to do an IG story on it and gawd I was such a noob. Even taking a selfie like the one above required several takes, for that one perfect shot, haha.
One of the angels on display made up of fairy lights.
How beautiful..but quite impossible to take a photo with the Christmas tree with people every now and then coming up to take pics. But not to worry, there were other smaller Christmas trees as well along the paths like this one below. Small and cute, like me. Hahaha! Tell me something funny.
So magical! Even from afar and the barricades.
That was us with the snow on our heads! We waited an hour just for this.
I hope you liked this post and make the time to come down for the last day tomorrow, 4pm to 11pm :))
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