Cycling and Blading at ECP

The girls had a great time at the ECP during the March holiday.Alyssa was cycling on a tricycle so it was still manageable for her.

Breanna rode the bicycle but she was not able to balance.  She still require Daddy to coach her and help her to balance.  加油 Breanna!!

The girls also tried out roller blading.  They were not able to balance at all.  It was very difficult and basically they were just holding on to Daddy throughout the blading session.

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奶奶 bought us tickets to attend her choir concert at Singapore Conference hall on the 21 Nov 2010.

The kids went but Alyssa was not able to appreciate the music.  Luckily, they saw their cousins there and joined them.  Otherwise, they will not be able to sit through the whole concert which lasted for around 2 hours.

Changi Airport

Last Saturday, we went to Changi Airport to fetch 奶 奶 from her Shanghai trip.  We were there early so we went to the kids corner at Terminal 3.  The girls were enjoying scratching the picture.

This is the longest slide in Singapore.  There are 2 slides - the shorter one is free but the longer one requires spending of $30 which entitles you to 2 tokens free.

Of course the girls will not miss the slide.  They went for the shorter one since it was free.  Fortunately, Alyssa was tall enough to ride as it requires a minimum height of 1.1m.  While I was waiting downstair for the girls to slide down, we were able to see each other on the TV screen.

Kite Festival

We were walking past Tampines Mall the other day and received this pamplet and a free kite.  It was promoting Kite Festival.

It's happening this coming Saturday & Sunday (18 & 19 September).  Think it will be loads of fun.  More information can be found here.

Mainland Tropical Fish Farm

Daddy wanted to buy some plants for his fish tank so we went to the Mainland Tropical fish farm @ Pasir Ris farmway 1.

While daddy was selecting the plants, the girls were busy feeding the duck and the fishes.  Fish food can be bought @ $1 for a small pack and it can feed both fishes and duck.

There were also other activities there - prawning, fish spa, longkang fishing and there is even a section on the poultry.

Apparently, there was people there celebrating birthday as well.

This was what we bought that day and how it looked like in our fish tank.  Daddy was so proud of his fish tank now.

Zoo

Last Saturday, we went to the zoo after getting the complimentary pass from my company.  We started with a breakfast with the wildlife.  It was a 1.5 hours buffet breakfast whereby you can have pictures taken with the Orang Utan as well as the snake.

In between the breakfast, we got to walk over the road and watched the elephant bathing.  We can also feed the elephant at $5.

After breakfast, we walked around.  The girls chose to feed the giraffe instead. It costs $5 per basket of food and only available at certain timing.

Finally, we came to the "Rainforest Kidzworld". We bought the 3 for $10 package for the kids which include pony ride, horse carriage ride and carousal ride.

We watched the animal friends show and the girls got up close with the dogs after the show.  Followed by waterplay for the girls.  They were enjoying themselves running around and playing with the waterslides.

Universal Studio @ Singapore

Our final stop for the 3 days activities in Singapore was to visit Universal Studio @ Sentosa.  We reached there around 11am.  However when we reached the ticket counter, we were told that all tickets for the day were sold out! We remembered that we saw a ticket booth near the car park area while we were parking our car.  Immediately, David went down to purchase the tickets and we were able to use these tickets. Hooray, we finally got in the theme park without disappointing the girls. In fact these tickets were valid for 3 months.

The park was divided into 7 different themes - Hollywood, Madagascar, FAr Far Away, The Lost World, Ancient Egypt, Sci-Fi City and New York.  Although we went on a Monday morning, the park was packed with people.  We needed to wait about 45 minutes for 1 ride.  We thought that it was too much time to waste especially with the impatient kids.  Thus we bought the Universal Express pass. We walked in to all rides without much waiting, just like a VIP while the people in the queue were looking with envy.  However, the express ticket only entitled us to 1 time privilege per ride.  But it was all worth it especially under the hot scorching sun.

We took all the rides except "Revenge of the Mummy" which is an indoor roller coaster. Alyssa was not tall enough to take.  The kids enjoyed all the rides and they seemed to be braver than me as I was screaming away while taking the junior roller coaster.

Both David and I were soaked through while taking the river raft ride.  The girls laughed at us since we were the only ones who got wet in our raft.

Overall, it was a fun day and we enjoyed ourself thoroughly. But it was expensive as well, the entrance ticket was @ $68 for adult and @ $48 for child plus the $48 per pax for the Universal Express ticket. In total, we spent $424 for 1 day Universal Studio plus another $20 for the parking fee.