Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Spa-rring Partners

As part of their feeble attempt to lead a healthy lifestyle, Eric Banana and Astro Girl made plans to conquer the Southern Ridges this morning. Although they managed to crawl out of bed at 6 plus this morning, their plans were however washed away by the unexpected heavy downpour. Thankfully, they have not left their houses yet. 

Actually, Eric Banana suspects that Astro Girl secretly wished for it to rain this morning. From their conversation last night, Astro Girl gleefully said that she doesn't mind if it rains this morning because she can go back to bed and sleep some more. While the always-sleepy Astro Girl managed to catch forty winks, Eric Banana was not so lucky - despite sleeping only 3.5 hours the night before, he could not sleep anymore.

Anyway, the Southern Ridges would have to wait. Not that they are likely to go anywhere anytime soon.

As for the other highlight of the day... since it was Astro Girl's birthday, Eric Banana decided to pamper her a bit (*erm* as opposed to a lot on other days *lol*). For this, they went to The Aspara at Goodwood Park Hotel.  In case you are wondering what The Aspara is, it is an award-winning premier brand of spas under SpaCare International. Eric Banana and Astro Girl both opted for the Body Bliss spa package, which starts with Body Glow Exfoliation using marine and plant extracts, followed by Aromatherapy Body Massage. It turned out to be a really relaxing and enjoyable experience for both of them, although it was their first time at a local spa. Furthermore, they got to enjoy a substantial discount as a result of using a 1-for-1 voucher from Amex.

Eric Banana thinks that Astro Girl really looks more radiant after the spa treatment (or was it the coffee from ToastBox that perked her up?):



After some window shopping at a leisurely pace on a lazy Wednesday afternoon, they had dinner at Sun with Moon Japanese Dining & Cafe at Wheelock Place. Incidentally, they had dinner there as well on Astro Girl's birthday last year. Yes, they really like the food at Sun with Moon.

Astro Girl ordered Beef Udon, while Eric Banana had Tempura Soba. They shared a Mixed Seafood Pancake and had Ice Cream Mori for dessert:

   

   

Again, Eric Banana and Astro Girl were both very full by the time they were done with dinner. On a side note, Eric Banana is not too sure that they will lead a "healthy lifestyle" if they continue to eat at the rate that they ate for the past two days.

4 comments:

gabrield said...

my wedding gift to you both will be in line with your healthy lifestyle focus -- gym memberships. Relaxing 42km runs and gentle aroma therapy working out next to big sweaty men.

Peace/Piece of Mind said...

It might be healthy if you guys WALKED there and back. :P Walk to the eatery.. build up an appetite... eat lots... WALK back... work it off. :P

Then repeat the process!

Mr and Mrs Eric Banana said...

We would have to turn down gabrield's offer of aroma therapy. We prefer to stick to the real thing.

We may adopt peace/piece of mind's suggestion to walk more, provided we can eat more if we do that.

Peace/Piece of Mind said...

Or course you can eat more if you walk more. Think of it as gasoline in a car.... no gas, how to run?