Water Fun!

Our first few weeks in Singapore were fairly mild... lots of lovely breezes, a warm but pleasant sun.  What's everyone complaining about I wondered... it's not that hot!  That all changed about a month ago. It is hot. Stinking hot every day.  And the breeze has disappeared.  So we've been looking for ways to stay cool.  The first place we hit was...

Wild Wild Wet

This was awesome.  Not hugely expensive (and even cheaper because we bank with DBS and they have a discount with their credit cards there or something), not too massive, and not too crowded on the sticky Sunday we headed down there.  Kind of in the middle of nowhere, we were a bit confused when our taxi driver dropped us off at a shopping centre, but we soon found it.  Wild Wild Wet has probably seen better days.. there is a bit of rust on a few things, a strange dank smell to the air, and it could generally just do with a lick of paint....but the kids don't notice things like this, and this is really all about them.  Oscar hit the water slides with Andy, and although he got scared on the first one (a group water slide), all the rest were of an acceptable thrill level for this 6 year old.  After a spin around the Shiok River in a giant donut, Frankie and I spent most of our time in the very cool and activity filled playground for kids - unfortunately Frankie DOES NOT LIKE being splashed with water unexpectedly, which is happens a lot in here... so a bit of sooking sent us to the REALLY baby pool where she was OK until tired and grumpy time approached.  Don't get too excited about the Tsunami Wave Pool by the way... much more of a 'gentle lapping at the shore' than any actual waves.  Overall, fun had by all, probably best for the kids tall enough to go on the water slides, but still plenty for the littlies to do to... no photos though, as I didn't want to get my iphone wet : )

112 Katong

This is not a water park... it is a chi-chi-ish shopping centre.  Crystal was kind enough to send me through a list of some good water playground at shopping centres around Singapore when she found out I was new in town and keen for kiddie activities... which made me think - maybe that sign for Aqua Playground at our local is NOT the name of a fancy swimming shop, but an actual AQUA PLAYGROUND.  The concept of a waterplay area at a shopping centre was just so foreign to me that I hadn't even considered it before.  But lo and behold, on the roof is this -

 

Yay!  The kids and I now go there at least twice a week.. it is so close by that we haven't even checked out any of the other ones around town yet, and it is handily next to a great food court with has awesome pan-fried dumplings (Oscar happy), $2 fresh watermelon juice (Frankie happy), and my latest addiction, Popiah.  This is a fresh crepe thing filled with a crunchy nutty sauce, vegies, stir-fried turnip (really, it is sooooo good, not just some weird pregnancy food craving!!!), and prawn or chicken if you so choose.  They then roll it up into a kind-of giant spring roll and cut it up into slices.  YUMOLA!