Visit to Jurong Bird Park

Brought my darlings to the Jurong Bird Park.  Daddy was unable to join us as he could not apply for leave.  The other time, they had come here with their Daddy as Mommy could not apply leave.  Nevertheless, my darlings love going to the Bird Park again.

We had a fun time learning about the various animals here such as the penguins, spoonbills, scarlet ibis, hyacinth macaw and many more.


When we arrived, we went to the Penguin Coast and were in time to watch the High Flyers Show at the Pool Amphitheatre.  My darlings had also learnt about the various owls at the World of Darkness.     The weather was cooling after a slight drizzle.  My darlings loved the Birdz of  Play the most as they could play with water.  They had such a wonderful time, but they could not play too long as the pool closed at 5.30pm.  They were very happy to bath outside.  Lol.

We went to the Jurong Point shopping mall after that, but we could not manage to find our favourite restaurant.  With the evening crowd, we just made do with eating at Burger King where we could get a seat.
My Sweetie was tired and dozed off after dinner.  Luckily, I had brought the stroller along.  Mommy had almost thought that we do not need a stroller anymore.  The stroller is my saviour, cannot imagine myself carrying this little 21kg girl around with all the rest of the stuff too.

My Cutie, as usual, is always very sensible to help Mommy and did not fight over the stroller with her sister.  Thank you, Cutie.  Love you.

Phuket-Langkawi Cruise (30Nov - 4 Dec 2013)

We went on a 5D4N cruise.  It was fun and we had a great time on board.  My darlings love the cruise so much that they wanted to go on a cruise again.  To them, the cruise is like a mobile hotel that floats on sea.  It was their first time on a cruise and they were amazed at how big the ship is.

On our first day onboard, we had an emergency drill exercise where everybody had to wear the life vests and gathered at the muster stations.  It was a good drill as it provides some comfort to my kids (who had some fear that the ship would sink as they had watched the show "Titanic" before).  We enjoyed the various performances such as the Magic Show, Opera Singing and the Acrobatic Show.  My darlings enjoyed the candlelight dinner of lobsters on the Gala Night.

We did not get the chance to swim in the swimming pool as it drizzled on those days that we were on the ship.  However, we managed to get a swim at near Kalim Beach in Phuket.



We paid 200 Thai Baht for the beach chairs and beach umbrellas.  My darlings enjoyed playing with the soft sand and had their own sand spa.  We love to stand in the sea and wait for the waves to come towards us.  There were a number of small crabs on the island.  My Cutie had a shock when she felt something pinching her foot in the water.  She scurried towards me and clung onto me tightly with her feet off the ground.  Her expression was so cute and funny.

In Langkawi, we joined a Land Tour.  Yet on the tour, most of the time, we were on a speed boat to watch the eagles and the Fish Farm.  My darlings love the Archer Fish who can squirt water.  Then we went to the limestone caves where we got to see the bats as well as the stalagmites and stalactites.

Throughout the tour, we did not get to buy much things as we did not bring currencies other than US and Singapore dollars.  Nevertheless, we found that the things sold were quite expensive as both Phuket and Langkawi are tourist resorts.

While waiting to disembark from the ship, my darlings got to move around the place and play with their Trunki.  Then we went to the highest deck of the ship and enjoyed the scenery of Singapore from another angle.  The Marina Bay area is quite beautiful.

My darlings were sad that the tour had come to an end.  Though it was relaxing on the cruise, we dozed off immediately when we reached home.  The ship was quite stable throughout the cruise, guess our bodies 'knew' and were adjusting to being back on land.  We had a great time on the cruise and we would love to go for another again.

My Sweetie was so creative to form the name of the ship with the boardgame.  Can you find the name of our ship?