20100501 labour day at the zoo

Its Labour Day, and papa worked late the night before, so mommy brought Kate to the zoo so that papa can have his beauty sleep.

At Mandai Road, mommy saw the cars all being directed to park at the side of the road by a staff.  The zoo staff then explained to mommy that the car park is undergoing renovation (until next year!) and so we have to park at the roadside, unless we opt for valet parking (which most probably they will park at the roadside too? unless they cordoned some of the remaining carpark lots for valet parking usage).

So mommy and Kate parked the car at the roadside and walked to the zoo. *Sweat*

Just after the entrance, there is a few trees where some small domesticated monkeys are jumping from tree to tree just above our heads.  Interesting! Mommy's hp is too slow to capture the monkeys who are very fast....

First visit.. the toilet.... mommy likes the toilet.. with its greenery etc.  Remains her of the toilet at Sentosa....

Next, we rushed to the elephant enclosure for the show at 1130am, only to find that the show is cancelled due to upgrading.  What a disappointment!

Then its time (yes) to find lunch.  The air conditioned ah meng restaurant was packed so mommy and Kate made their way to the well ventilated eatery next door which sells only pasta.  But lots of empty seats.  The pasta are cooked one serving at a time which means a longgggg waittttt..... *snap* pictures of Kate with the wooden carved crocodile....

After that, we walked to the Kidz Rainforest.  Along the way, we see other animals.

See this picture?  The baby zebra was born only 3 days ago!!!!

Kate took a picture of the signage explaining about zebras..cos she liked the pattern at the side..she called it a (jigsaw) 'puzzle'.

Next, the fragile rainforest... where we saw the raffesia, the largest flower in the world, and a lemur sleeping in the bush behind it....

We finally reached the water play area.. where Kate dared not go to the areas with water spraying around/being poured from a great height.  So she end up only sitting at the side of the play area playing with the water.  Under the hot sun (that explains the hat).  Mommy gave up after a while cos its hot, and Kate whined everytime another kid run by and splash water onto her.

So off we go, to watch the show the rainforest fights back, and then the splash safari.  By then Kate is very tired so we left the show halfway.

Last stop of the day, Ben and Jerry's.  Mommy bought a ice cream (she insisted on having one with the 'biscuit' (cone)).

And they shared the ice cream as they walked under the hot hot sun back to the roadside where the hot hot car (did anyone say 'freshly baked'?) car was waiting. 

And home they go.. to where papa was waiting...

p/s mommy saw some adults riding on the motorised scooter and zipping around the zoo.  Maybe next time she will do the same... getting old... very tiring to walk in and out with a kid under the hot.... :P