Weekend At the Zoo

Thanks to Ah Si's corporate card for the Zoo, we were able to bring the kids to the zoo for 2 days straight over the past weekend! Yes, on both Sat and Sun. Free mah, coupled with the fact that if you are bringing kids, chances are you can't finish the zoo in one day.

So on day 1, we brought Xuan xuan along too.. He slept on most of the trip, only waking up for a while when we were about to go home..


En went on both days, and he seems enamored with the Polar bear - cuz he kept saying "bear" and the Kangaroo that can "Jump".. He was also enchanted by the Jaguar which could swim and jump and leap. He was a tad stunned that the animals are so much larger than those he had seen in the book..such as his giraffe and elephants.

So we roamed the western part of the zoo on Day 1, and then the eastern part of the zoo on Day 2. And we manage to see most of the animals in the zoo.

Although, personally, I am a bit disturbed by the various qualifiers we saw in the zoo along the way - such as why the Polar Bear is not snowy white (and almost bald as there were huge patches of grey skin on Inuka) and why the camels seem thinner than they should be (with signs assuring us that they were well fed). Hmm..

And I realised why I enjoyed the reserves that we visited in Australia and in the US more, cuz the weather was a lot better and walking was less tedious at 20plus degree instead of the sizzling 30 degrees Celsius! But the Zoo had improved much over the years - they actually have huts labelled CoolZone for visitors to rest and to enjoy the aircon before heading out into the sun again at the various strategic spots. So we figured that we will bring En to the reserve in Australia in the cooler months so that it will really be an enjoyable trip without the heat!