All About Your Child

continuation from previous post “Sentosa – Underwater World Singapore” …

Oh yes! They were CRAZY over the luge…errrmm… actually I was too!!! *laugh*

However, the voucher which I bought earlier (read this post) only entitled us to go for one round of luge and skyride.

Luge brings you down the hill and the skyride brings you back up.

I love go-karts, remember this post in year 2008 “Escape Theme Park“? We enjoyed it so much. Well, I find luge quite similar to go-kart.

This is NOT the first time for my boys to be on the Luge and SkyRide, unlike us. Kitkit and Binbin went for their first, with their beloved Ah Yi and Yi-Zhang, several years back. Look at their chubby faces back then.

Aren’t they adorable???!!! Aaawww….

During that time, they were obviously below the required minimum height, so they sat on the Luge with the adults. This time they were on their own! It definitely raised their level of excitement and the enthusiasm glowed in their eyes! *smile*

I could not take any photo of any of us on the luge as no photography was allowed in the ‘seating‘ area.

We took the Dragon Trail and we loved it!

Once was NOT enough for the kids and I, we wanted to go for the Luge again, but Allan was not that keen, he prefers go-kart more.

Anyhow, right after we scrambled out of our Luge, we hopped into the Skyride.

All was fine until I saw how high I was!!!!

Oh man! I was sooooooooooo afraid! My legs were dangling in mid-air and they were going numb!

I dare not open my eyes anymore! There was a point where Binbin was doing some sort of ‘hip-dancing’ and the whole thing SHOOK!!!

I yelled at him!
Oh man!
I was terrified!
I could not think straight at all!
I just wanted the ride to end FAST!
Like IMMEDIATELY, there and then, stop!

Allan finds my extreme reaction very strange because I love to sit on roller coasters. In fact, we had already planned for our 3rd Legoland Malaysia trip, but with my my in-laws this time, 6 kids and 8 adults, before school reopens.
Each niece is already ‘fighting‘ to sit beside me, the ONLY ADULT, among the 8, who is more than willing to go on any roller coaster ride, so that I could ‘give them courage’. *laugh*
Yet, look at me now! Totally petrified by a slow-moving-high-rise-transport! *faint*

Well, its just different!
Roller coaster moves along a track and my feet can rest on the cart.
The ride moves fast and the scary feeling ends in seconds too.
Unlike Skyride!
My legs felt so insecure, dangling in open space!
The only thing that kept me from falling from the sky was a ‘thick hook and rope’.
The bench was made of strips of metal, where I can see through them.
If I was without my pants, I bet my butt can feel the wind flying by between those strips!
*Scream*

I love the Luge but hates the Skyride.
How???!!!
We do not want to walk up the hill after every Luge ride, but it seems that Skyride was the only thing that can bring us back up.
How???!!!

My dear Allan ‘sacrificed‘.
He decided to drive to the bottom of the slope, where the Luge ride ends and waits for us over there, so that I do not need to take the Skyride back up. Oh yes, I forgot to mention that we DROVE our car into Sentosa that day.

With his support, he satisfied his children’s wishes and his wife’s too.
Yes, the 3 of us went for it once again, without the big guy.
This round, we went on the Jungle Trail, with more sharp bends, cool!

Seriously, we were very tempted to go for the 3rd time, but thinking that poor Allan got to drive up and down again…. Hhhmmm…. better not.
So till I find another way to bring us up the slope, other than taking the Skyride, from the end of the Luge ride back to the beginning of the Luge ride, I do not think I will venture it again.

We are a family, we should have fun together and not leave anyone behind……

Kitkit finally fulfilled his final birthday wish on 4th December 2012, more than a month after his birthday. Remember his birthday post? “Kitkit’s 9th birthday celebrationssssssss” Yup, this is his post-birthday celebration which we had prepared 2 months ago.

We knew about the opening of the Marine Life Park, the world’s largest oceanarium, but the entry price frightened us off. So we did not tell the birthday boy about this other choice and stuck to his original plan of going to the Underwater World Singapore.

The last time we brought the kids there was many years ago. Binbin was still wobbling around and Kitkit was still babbling away.

IT WAS A TOTAL WASTE OF MONEY back then!!!! Spent almost S$100 on 4 tickets and we could NOT even proceed beyond 20 steps after we passed the entrance!

*Faint*

Kitkit’s lungs could have exploded if we had insisted to move further.
He was screaming like crazy!!!!
Kitkit was so afraid of the place that even in Allan’s mighty arms, he still felt insecure; and kept shaking his head and clinging onto Allan for dear life!
I do not know what exactly he was afraid of.
Maybe it was the darkness.
I had no idea!
There was no way we could get him to cool down to tell us.
He kept pointing at the exit.
He JUST WANTED TO GET OUT of the place!!!

We did not want to force the toddler further, so we had to turn around and head straight to the exit.

Almost 5 years later, it was this same frightened toddler’s birthday wish to venture HIS terrifying place once more.
My boy in red who once feared the Underwater World Singapore became the first to run ahead of us and explore every part of it thoroughly.

Yes, he was so INTO it that he got his WHOLE HAND IN THE MOUTH OF THE STINGRAY unknowingly during feeding time.
*laugh*

A lady was so afraid of getting wet when she was feeding the stingray, that she rammed straight onto me and sent my phone flying out of my hand.
*gasped*

Thank goodness my less-than-2-month-old phone was not damaged.
Thus, explains why there was an abrupt discontinuation after Allan paid $3 each for the stingray food in the video below.

The boys enjoyed touching fish after fish…

and never to forget to wash their hands after that…

Going through the aquarium tunnel did not bring as much excitement as the feeding experience they had earlier.

Yet, watching the diver feeding the fishes and cleaning the aquarium created more amusement for the two little ones.

The kids also watched the seals and pink dolphins show at the Dolphin Lagoon just next to the Underwater World Singapore:~

With that, we said goodbye to Underwater World Singapore.
Will we go back again?
Unlikely.
The kids were not keen on having another visit, unlike the Luge Ride they had on that same day. They were CRAZY over the Luge Ride…just like their Mummy… *laugh*
Blog post on Luge Ride and Sky Ride next…