Busy fun(?) filled saturday for the ng family!

finally the elder boy's berries' classes have ended for the year! no more enrichment class for him every saturday for the rest of the year (or whatever left of it...)! *wee*

so yesterday, we decided to head out in the morning and off to river safari we did! it was pretty much decided on a whim. we asked the boys where do they want to go and they were giving all the @_@ answers like legoland, korea, USS.... finally, the elder boy said he leave it to didi to decide and YR mentioned river safari. both hubbi and me thought it was doable given the last time we were there, it was the soft opening and the amazon river cruise was not yet opened. so quick purchase of tics online and off we go! it was a swift 30mins ride from our house. :P

everyone is heading to the zoo!! river safari is rather quiet which was good for us i guess!

again, only managed to see kai kai... jia jia when are you getting out of your enclosed space!?

river safari is good in the sense it's small and very manageable and all the pathways are sheltered!!! god-send in this crazy hot weather at times. but given it's very "manageable" size, we were done in like less than 3 hours. @_@

relaxing trip

we took the amazon river ride and it was sooooo.... SHORT. LOL. hubbi was shocked by the whole duration of it and half the time, we had problem spotting the animals to our left and right. 

the good thing is the mini downslope bits of the ride where the boys were thrilled that few secondssss...

 In the end, we were outside river safari at around 2pm and wondering where can we go next....
after some googling, spontaneous (thats my real nature and the husband getting good at it after years of conditioning... ) us decided to head to the newly opened national museum of singapore!

we explored the temporary exhibit from the british museum as well as the Singapore history gallery.

compact but very rich collections of treasures round the world indeed

highlight of the tour was viewing the mummy. the younger boy was asking repeatedly was the person within the mummy dead? and the elder boy didnt help much by adding that the mummified person's organs were put in jars next to the mummy. @_@

and so YR feared for mummy nightmare last night.....

we didnt explore the singapore history gallery thoroughly as the boys were getting tired and getting distracted by then.

so we left the place for early dinner - PS cafe petit at tiong bahru!

early dinner!

after a hearty dinner (truffles fries inclusive!!), we walked down yong siak street and i managed to get a lovely book from woods in the books. :)

by the time we reached home, the boys were all ready to hit the sack after bathing! lovely day!