After breakfast, we reached the zoo at about 910 am, ready to explore the zoo. Mummy took the map of the zoo and saw that there was an elephant bathing and feeding session at 915 am, so we rushed to the elephant bathing area immediately. Managed to get there just before the two elephants came out
Everyone was crowding near the elephants initially, but once the elephants used their trunks to spray water onto their bodies, everyone backed off ... because the water splashed quite a distance and wetted a lot of people. I was not too interested in the elephants bathing, but once we were allowed to feed the elephants, Daddy went to buy 2 baskets of food for me to feed the elephants !!! And of course, I had a fun time feeding them
Along the way, insisted on taking photos with the seals....
See a baby Orang Utan clinging onto Mummy Orang Utan ....
Because of the Youth Olympic Games in Aug this year, the zoo also came up with the Zoolympix !!! Just $2, Daddy bought the 2010 Zoolympix game book so that I can go around the zoo at various stations to complete the obstacles and collect stamps. At the end of it, I qualify for the lucky draw and lucky dip.
My first station for the Zoolympix game at the Giraffe enclosure. I am supposed to imitate the giraffe to drink water ... spread my legs wide and then drink without using my hands .... after a while, I got tired and squatted to drink, instead of spreading my legs .... wonder why the giraffe does not get tired so easily ??? Managed to finish the bottle of water in 65 secs !!! And after that, to the toilet I went ..... before I wet my pants
Second station was "Scale the wall at reptile house". I was supposed to be like a lizard, scaling the wall from one end to the other .... with some help, I managed to complete the obstacle !!!
We then proceeded to the Rainforest Kidzworld to take part in the Animal Yoga, which is part of the Jun holiday programme.... See so many mini exercise mats prepared for the yoga session. But I was the only kid there and Daddy had to take part to keep me company.
We did basic poses such as half lotus, and then proceeded to animal yoga poses like lion, monkey, giraffe, tiger and elephant. Followed by parachute game and a hanky throwing game. Actually it was very fun, and I really enjoyed it. If only there were more kids taking part with me.
Then, we had lunch at KFC when it started to rain cats and dogs!!! After lunch, we braved a short distance of rain to the Kidzworld Amphitheatre to watch the Animal Friends show. This show had ceased for 1.5 years and they only resumed 2 weeks ago with new animal programme.
Started off with an introductory dance, and an American boy /audience participating in the dance
There were mice, cats and dogs. (Can you spot the 2 small little white mice in the photo?) As explained by the presenters, the actors and animals are still not very experienced, so there were quite a few misses during the show.
German shepard trying to catch the frisbee thrown by an audience
And a dog jumping through the man-made hula hoop
At the end of the show, with all the dogs and trainers on stage. And everyone applauded even though it was not that perfect
And of course bubbles everywhere at the stage to entertain the kids
I liked the last part the best, where we were allowed to pat the dogs
Fortunately the rained stopped by then and we proceeded to the 3rd Zoolypix station, which was "Horses Sniff" at the Rainforest Kidzworld. Horses are known to remember different scents and in this station, I was supposed to take a sniff at the various containers and then classify them accordingly based on the smell .... Daddy had to complete this station for me, since I could neither recognise the smell nor the wordings on the chart ....
Of course, I insisted on water fun at the water play area. And this time, I was quite adventurous. Did not take that much time to warm up to the water play stations, and even agreed to go with Daddy to have the BIG pail of water (aka the ELEPHANT!) splashing onto me !!! And I went for a total of 3 rounds !!! Played for about 45 mins and I went to shower (since the sky started to turn dark by then)
Then we proceeded to the 4th station .... fruit 'fishing' game near the Chimpanzee enclosure. Tried to 'fish' the fruits by myself but failed, so in the end, asked Daddy to help me. So I managed to 'fish' one fruit after the 60 secs timing ....
Because of the water fun, I was so tired that I fell asleep in my stroller within 5min. Then it started to rain so Daddy and Mummy decided to go to the Shaw Amphitheatre to take shelter since later on, there will be a special show called "Dora Explores Singapore Zoo with Diego" just for the Jun holiday weekends !!! And it so happens that I love Dora the Explorer a lot !!! I even have a Dora water bottle that I bring to school everyday.
At 3 pm, the Dora show started and I also woke up (more like I was woken up by the music) !!!
I did not know that Dora also loves the Chicken Dance that Miss Daphne had taught me in school the other day ... so I was quite familiar with the dance
Daddy managed to get the priority card for me to take a photo with Dora and Diego so at the end of the show, I joined the queue for photo taking .... I even gave Dora a big hug before I left the stage.
After the Dora show, we proceeded to finish the zoolympics. Fifth station: Hurdling at Hamadryas Baboons station ... leap as fast as I can, over the poles. And the jie jies and gor gor were kind enough to re-set the game for me, since they were about to pack up for the day !!!! Managed to overcome the obstacles in 4.53 secs !!! Not bad for a 3.5 yrs old kid
Last station before I complete the Zoolympix. Jie jie teaching me how to jump far.
And the result of my first jump ... if you consider that a jump
So, I was given a second chance and this time, the result was .... 63 cm !!! Is this considered far ???
We left the zoo at about 430 pm and gosh, I was so tired that after dinner, I did some colouring for a while and then I told Mummy I went to sleep (instead of Mummy asking me to go to bed!) Off to bed at about 8 pm !!!
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