The day to say goodbye came too soon, as it always does.

We started with our goodbyes to our Helper, then the Raffles Hotel, then our condo, the kids' best friends, and ended with our drive out of town to the Airport.

Jonathan left the hotel first along with some of our luggage. He was off to meet with with our rental agent for a quick walk through of our condo, before they met with our landlords and their agent to do the inspection and key hand off.

When us girls were all packed up and ready to go. I called the Butler and did an "In-Room Check Out" via the phone. That was easy - no children running around the Lobby.

I'm glad they ran through the bill with me. Someone had billed 2 drinks from the pool to our room, although it was quickly removed from our bill. I imagine our pool reservation times showed that we weren't at the pool when the charges were made.

Bell Services arrived to collect our bags. I had them take one cart of luggage for our Helper and to keep the rest separate for the rest of us. They said not to rush, so us girls said goodbye to our Helper in the suite and let her go off first. Us girls all shed some tears. Although, I'm not sure MsI understands that we won't see our Helper again, or if we do it won't be for a very very long time. She's really been part of our family and a friend to each of us. We didn't expect to be saying goodbye to her so soon.

After I was sure we wouldn't run into our Helper in the Lobby and upset the girls again, we left too. The girls first wanted some photos of themselves in their favorite hotel.

We had to wait a few minutes for our Grab to arrive. We were a little bored until a Wedding Party came out to get their photos done. I shuttled us out of the way to ensure we weren't in their wedding photos. MsE was super thrilled about the Wedding Party and insisted that I get the Bride's picture too.

After our luggage was loaded into the Grab and everyone was belted in, I realized I was now solely in charge of our children and our luggage and called Jonathan to ask what I should do with it - the luggage. We had intended to just park the luggage beside the pool with us while we swam with our neighbour friends, however, it was raining.

We settled on bringing it all up the Lift to our condo for Jonathan and our agent to bring down with our other 8 pieces of luggage when they left. The kids did a 1-minute run through our condo saying goodbye to all the empty rooms; and then we were off with a pinata, an umbrella, and a bit of plan.

The pinata was from MsE's birthday last August. She loved her party pinata so much that she couldn't smash it, so it's been played with for the last 11 months. She had a plan to ask for a new one for her next birthday and then smash the year old one at her next party - she's a long term planner. Sadly pinata wasn't going to fit in a suitcase, so she decided it's time had come.

We arrived at MsE's best friend Rosy's and stole the 2 sisters for a pinata smash in the basement Lobby. In hindsight, maybe I should have chosen the ground floor, but I was trying to keep us out of the rain. The girls all got in a few turns and quickly decimated the unicorn and the umbrella, snatched the candy, and we returned the excited girls back up the Lift - Everyone was screaming "Goodbye!!!" It was a very exciting and cheerful goodbye. I'm glad we just went for it!

After that we went to MsC's best friend, Kickie's house. I got to share a cup of Chai Tea with her parents, who are good friends of ours, while the girls played in the room. When Jonathan messaged that all our luggage was now with him in our Basement Lobby, it was time to say our hardest goodbye. MsI crawled under the desk in Kickie's room and said she wan't going. I told her she'd have to go sleep without Mom if she stayed and lived at Kickie's house and she looked like she wasn't sure what do do. I didn't even think to get a picture while we were visiting - I was too busy saying goodbye too.

We'd already trashed our umbrella so we decided that running through the rain would be faster and funner than going the very long way through the basement car park. I thought we were being careful, but MsI and slipped hard holding hands just as MsC was telling us to be careful of a particular patch of walkway. I scrapped up my hands, but we were mostly saved by a stuffie that Kickie had just given to MsE, whom had made me stuff it in my shirt to keep it dry.

After that we found Jonathan in the basement Lobby with our luggage and called a very big vehicle to take us to the Airport Hotel.

Our driver was helpful loading, but basically kicked us out with our luggage at the Changi Jewel Mall with no idea how to actually get to the hotel. We found ourselves some airport luggage carts which Jonathan and I loaded up 3 completely, while MsC held the other girls hands.

When we tried to check in to the mall there was some distress over how luggage carts were not allowed in the mall, but they could see we clearly needed the luggage carts. I think they thought we were Arrivals to Singapore and so should have been in Quarantine or In Transit Quarantine, which freaked them out also. A Mall Escort and they allowed us to check in to the mall. MsE pushed MsI's stroller while MsC, Jonathan and I pushed the luggage carts. We're used to being a bit of a spectacle, but everyone stopped and stared as our luggage train went by. We just barely fit into the Lift (elevator) to get to the Hotel.