Visit to the Jurong Bird Park

Life is very interesting. I had wanted to bring the kids to Jurong Birdpark (JBP), especially on weekend mornings with fantastic weather. The sun appears to be smiling at me and JBP calls out to me. The desire was so intense that we actually bought the Family Annual Membership that allows our family free entry to JBP for the entire year. There are so many sunny weekend mornings. We will definitely fully utilize the membership, right? Amazingly, the magic dissolved right after we bought the membership. Now, I am either too lazy, or a sunny morning means it is too hot. Lol.

To make my money worth, last Sunday morning, Popo, Auntie and I brought the kids to JBP. We took a cab there and back. We rented one of those pull carts and the 2 kids happily sit in them while auntie and I sweat and took turn to pull and push the cart. Mad effort on a “sunny” Sunday morning.

Lil Isaac can better appreciate the “birds” now. All of them are birds to him except for the penguins. Those that swim in the water are all ducks. We walked the park, looked at birds, chased some really big crowned pigeons and fed the lory birds at the loft. The crowned pigeons are as big as a fat rooster and they roamed the enclosed area even in close human proximity. The kids, especially Lil Isaac, were so excited and attempted to catch the pigeons with their bare hands. Their dear mother freaked out, trying to grab the boy before he grabs the birds and yelling at the girl to stay away from the birds. I seriously worried about us making the newspaper headline about abusing birds or kenna pecked to death by crowned pigeons. Well, we made it safely out of the enclosure. We are safe and so were the pigeons.

We then headed to the lory loft. Lil Shauna wanted to feed the birds and we got bird feeds. Daddy Lim always feed the birds, that is his job but he was at work and I had to take over. The birds must be really hungry bcos they were all over us. Arrggghhhh.. Lil Isaac was scared by the bird mob and cringed on to auntie. Lil Shauna wanted to feed the bird yet wanted to hide behind mummy. I was like a tree….

We headed back after about 2 hours. By then, I was sticky and tired but we had fun. Happy kids, happy mummy.

Mummy Lim