Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Of water and plants

Weekends are precious for us, especially since we work on the weekdays. So we do try to bring the kids somewhere a little special. I have two water-babies, and they love water play! We decided to go to the Marina Barrage to let the kids run wild a little.

Such a joy to see the two boys splash, karate-punch, jump and squeal around the sprouts of water.

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After an hour of frolicking in the water, we decided to walk from the Barrage down to Gardens by the Bay – which was about 5, 10 minutes away.

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I look forward to the day when the hoarding’s removed, as the view’d been pretty fabulous. Soon, the domes came to view!

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It was our first time there, and we didn’t expect to see these:

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Erm, nope, not the crowd (that’s expected) – but the stone animals lining the area! It thrilled both my boys to bits!

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(Okay, I don’t think it’s very safe for kids to try to mount these statues, but it’s tough to tear Xav away without at least a little bump on the small elephants! Explanation for his reddish cheeks here – this was before we used the cream!)

We walked around, and did the usual touristy thing. Photographs!

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The real Supertrees (above) and a tree whose branches look like the Supertree (below)!

We wanted to settle our dinner at the foodcourt…

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but apparently so did a few hundred other people. There was a queue to enter the food court! Yikes… Guess that will have to wait till a while later.

Anyways, the Gardens were lovely to walk around, especially on a cool weekend afternoon.

Looks to be a frequent haunt for us as well! A friend mentioned she went on the Garden Cruiser Tour with her kids, and it was a quick 20-minute ride around the entire Gardens with commentary, so I am looking forward to that too!

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