Celebrating Mum's Birthday (5 April 09)

Mum had to work on her birthday weekend, so we celebrated it the weekend before - way in advance. Actually we wanted to make use of the Shangri-La 'Flash your age' promo where you can dine in any restaurant at Shang and get the discount off your age on your actual date of birth. Too bad we couldn't make use of that promotion. However, we still decided to try out a new place for everyone. We had Sunday brunch at House@Dempsey over at Dempsey Hill.

Thank God for the timing of the rain that day. It was raining before our journey and during the time we were dining. We did not have to be caught in the rain when walking to and from the carpark to the restaurant. There was also free parking there. The cafe was cosy, the staff were very attentive towards us and there was room for the kids to roam around. We also had a nice view of the lush greenery.....very relaxing and serene to simply chill out there. The food though was a tad overpriced, wished there was a greater variety and not every dish was worth the $.

After all of us had our main courses and were chatting away....i signalled for the staff to bring the cake over to mum and it was pretty much a surprise :) We all sang the birthday song for mum and she was really happy!

The grandparents and their 3 cute grandchildren:

The Must-Have Family Photo (gal couldn't take her eyes off the cake!):

Mum cutting the cake...and the 2 greedy lil' ones glaring at the cake from beside :)

A recommendation at House@Dempsey, the award-winning Strawberry Shortcake...pretty unqiue.....eaten with vanilla sauce poured over.....very different from what other cake shops sell....its a rare non-chocolate cake that we all enjoyed!

P/s: And you can probably guess who smudged off the "Happy" (made of chocolate sauce) on the plate....