Gold Coast - Day 4

We had a very interesting breakfast on opur 4th day. We had maggie mee and ham. Heck unhealthy, we needed to load the kids with calories and maggie mee is something that they are familiar with and would stomach as compared to sandwiches.

We were done with breakfast early and could spare about 20 mins for a short walk at the beach. The kids were thrilled.

The beach was beautiful in the bright morning sun and the kids were happy just sinking their feet in the cold sand and picking seashells. It was such a nice way to start a morning. Then we headed back to the hotel for the transfer to Sea World.
Sea World isn't too far from our hotel and we arrived shortly to a huge crowd. There were many people at the park bcos it was the weekend. We should have planned it on a weekday but made do since we were already there.

We caught the sea lion show immediately after we entered the park. The sun was working very hard and it actually felt hot. It was the hottest day out of our 8 in Gold Coast. We all perspiring by the time the show was over and I was lamenting about not bringing the sunblock. Bringing hats were a fantastic choice.

After the sea lion show ended, we headed for the Dora show. Sea World seems to have some kind of partnership with Nickelodeon and it was a really nice and proper Dora show. It was Best Friends' Day and Dora was looking for Boots, her best friend. I think that was probably the best show amongst all that we had watched, in the kids' opinion though. Just look at how excited the kids were. They were singing and dancing along. My kids watched too much TV. Lol.

At this point, Daddy Lim complained of a massive headache and had to take a rest. I was worried about him and also the fact that I couldn't handle 2 kids on my own. Then it dawned on me that when it is an one-to-one tour, the adults cannot afford to fall sick. Luckily the headache didn't stay for long. Phew.
We took some kiddy rides after the shows but the rides are meant for smaller kids and Lil Shauna love thrilling rides. The rides were deemed to be boring and she refused to go on the merry-go-round. There were long queues too bcos there were many other parents with their toddlers. Unfortunately, the other thrilling rides either required some minimal height or had too long queue and we were unwilling to wait.

So instead, we went shark watching.

Their shark viewing gallery is quite impressive. Daddy Lim and I both thought that the sharks look toothless, but we aren't sure.
Then, we headed to some touch pool for stingrays and some of them were really huge! I didn't know that stingrays are friendly. Anyway, I didn't attempt, they look too intimidating to me and fishes are not my best friends. They are good to me on dinner plates. Oops. Only Daddy Lim tried and said that they feel slimy.

There are starfishes too. At least Lil Shauna attempted that and said that the starfishes feel rough and hard. Daddy Lim also touched the sea cucumber and said that they are rubbery.

The kids had temporary tattoos done too. Unfortunately, our kids spent too much time soaking in the bath tub everyday that their tattoos didn't last very long.

We left the park earlier this time and went back to hotel while the sun was still up, which was so rare. Not that we go back to the hotel late everyday but that the sun sets so early everyday. We spotted SpongeBob and Sandy before we left the park. The girls only flavor Sandy though. Poor SpongeBob. Li Isaac was only willing to view them from afar.

Since we were early, we went to the beach again for a little fun. The sand was really cold and there were plenty of seagulls attracted by some other tourists who were feeding them something that looked like fried chicken fillet. Lil Shauna was happy "chasing" after seagulls, who weren't at all afraid of her. They were more interested in waiting for those tourists to feed them and simply waddled away when Lil Shauna ran towards them. They didn't even bother to fly away but our little girl had fun. Lil Isaac was barely awake from his nap but joined in the fun soon. We also ran around at the beach, ran from waves and raced against each other. It was fun. The Ong family didn't join us as the kids were having a late nap after the fun at Sea World.

We joined them for a simple dinner at KFC thereafter. Mummy was so happy to be eating chicken, we had plenty of carbos and fries for the past few days. Meat!

Mummy Lim