The holidays have begun!

The June holidays have started. Instead of being cooped up in the house, we've been taking the opportunity to go out quite a bit!

Universal Studios Singapore

 First stop was definitely the Transformers ride. It was only a 15 minutes wait and so it was good! We did the ride again at the end of the day, and gosh, I can't believe that we actually waited 90 minutes then! The boys were good. They really wanted to do the ride again and so they were quite patient in waiting out the 1.5 hours!

Kieran was brave enough to go up the Jurassic Park ride this time (without whining). Kiefer originally whined about going up the ride, however, at the entrance, he somehow didn't make the height requirement (which we were really puzzled) and then he got upset because he couldn't go on the ride. :{

It was also the first time that we got to go on the Madagascar ride. Very much like It's a Small World at Disneyland. Pretty alright. We went on it twice and the boys enjoyed it.

Hubby went on the Human Cylon (the dangly legs one) on his own while we waited. I didn't get to watch my favourite Shrek 4D though cos the boys somehow didn't want to do it that day. :{

It was overall a really fun day. We stayed till about 7pm? before we left the park. It would have been nicer if it were a little cooler tho'. We got pretty tanned even after slathering on sunblock and I think we suffered from a little heat stroke the next day!


Singapore Science Center

We haven't been to the Science Center in a long time. And since hubby is at work, I thought I would bring the kids. It's the easiest place to get to and there's free parking! Kieran remembered some of the exhibits that he saw when he came to the Science Center on a school excursion. Once we entered, he immediately brought Kiefer to the optical illusion setup where it looked as though their heads were served on a platter of fruits.

We managed to catch the Tesla coil demo. That has always been my favourite demonstration at the Science Center. It's just pure wonder how electricity could be generated. It both amazing and frightening at the same time!


There were also some Discover-it-Yourself stations set up and the boys could set up simple experiments to discover magnetism and static electricity. Fun!

Kieran wanted to watch an IMAX movie and so we bought tickets to Macgillvray Freeman's Coral Reef Adventure. Kiefer, however, was tired out by then (the movie was at 1pm) and fell asleep halfway through the movie. Kinda waste money eh.

I guess the highlight of the entire outing was probably the MacD's lunch we had after. We were so hungry after the show that we ate so much! Between the 3 of us, we ate 8 nuggets, 1 cheeseburger, a pack of fries, 4 McWings and an apple pie! Yum Yum! :P

We got home at only about 4pm. It was a day well-spent.


Science Center Mall Exhibition - X-ploring Dinosaurs!



































I found out that there was a dinosaur exhibit at Plaza Singapura. It was a Mall Exhibition by the Science Center as well. There were a few life-sized dinosaur models on display, and for $20, each kid could go through 4 stations to either dig up some dino bones or to create some dino crafts. The 4 stations take about 1.5h to complete. And what do the parents do? Just wait around.