With delight we attended a 2nd birthday party today at Polliwogs Play Centre on East Coast Park's beachfront, Singapore. It is a terrific indoor centre comprising of obstacle courses, ball pools and awesome slides. It has been nearly a year since Trini has played in a play centre so this opportunity was a great experience for her. The rope tunnel was quite challenging for her little feet, making her work on balance, concentration and a "steady as she goes" approach. The pink corkscrew slide whilst not particularly long, it was certainly fast even for adults.
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| Balance Beam. |
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| Rope tunnel about 2.5m off the ground. |
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| Super-fast corscrew slide. |
From here we braved the Singaporean hot and humid weather and chose to walk home, approximately three kilometres, mostly in the shade. We passed the time singing nursery rhymes, jumping over cracks forwards and backwards and checking out the red dots on the maps that said "You are here". Trini loved each map and with her little finger tracing the grey footpath that directed us home.
Pitstops along the way included climbing breakwater barriers, admiring the ships, taking turns photographing, twirling and sharing the Pokka carrot juice we picked up along the way.
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| Makes me think of Rose on the bow of 1996 Titanic movie. |
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| Mosaic totem poles at the Seafood Centre, East Coast Park. |
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As we are nearing home, so is Trini nearing the end of her strength. Time for refreshments and a rest at the East Coast Lagoon hawkers market. Our favorite "juice man" at stall 35 mixes a great, cold and freshly squeezed mango and orange juice. With princess puzzle in hand (a gift from the birthday party), Trini rests her little feet, quenches her thirst, tops up her sugar and tackles the jigsaw puzzle.
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| Mango and orange juice, freshly squeezed. |
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Fitting the last 3 pieces of her new Princesses
jigsaw puzzle. |
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| A bit of play time before our final part of the journey. |
With the weather threatening to open the skies, we finish up at the hawkers market and walk the remainder of our 20 minutes trip with me mostly carrying Trini. Whilst I really didn't want to get caught in a Singaporean tropical downpour, we still managed snap to a couple of pictures along the way.
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I particularly liked this ship. It was so red, my favorite colour,
it was just begging for a photo. |
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| Just some gorgeous, uniform trees found in East Coast Park. |
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So we finally made it home, showered and settled down for a coffee for mum and jelly shots for Trini (jelly shots = small individually packed jelly popped into Trini's mouth whilst she's lying on her back. Daddy thought it would be a fun activity when he showed it to her the first time and since then all jelly are had as "jelly shots"). It was a lovely day spent with my girl and we would do it again, regardless of how tiring (maybe I'll just take Trini's bike with me next time as a back up) but we had fun turning something so simple as walking into a mini-adventure.
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| Trini having her jelly shots and off to watch Disney movies. |
