Sentosa Trip - Day 1

 

Finally we got some time off from work and brought the boys out to Sentosa on 19th for a day trip out. Initially, we were planning to head out to Legoland in Malaysia but abandon the idea as the weather conditions are fairly unpredictable these days. The night before, we were frantically surfing the net, trying to get hold of accomodation at Resorts World but was fully booked out. I even had the impulse to fly out to HK for a 3D2N trip but the air tickets were exorbitant - priced at $900-1k per pax!

So we ended up going to Underwater World and Dolphin Lagoon. This theme park is currently running a promotion for Singaporeans - buy one adult ticket at $15, and you get to admit one child or senior citizen for free.

It was up close and personal with the fishes when you first enter into the park. Ethan was apprehensive at first but slowly warmed himself to have the courage to touch those stingrays. The park was not too crowded, probably the crowd has headed to the other new water theme park at Resorts World (S.E.A aquarium).








This is the bigger pool with bigger sized stingrays




As the stingrays are much bigger in size, the boys did not attempt to touch them in this pool.

We bought some fish food to experience the feeling of feeding the fishes in a specially designed tank. The fishes were smart, they did not attempt to rip off the food from their little hands but loiter near the fish food. When the boys hands were tired holding the fish food in a stationary position for almost 5 minutes, we asked them to release them into the water. Once this was done, the fishes swam towards the floating fish food and started to fight for their share..





Caden was so amused with this sea creature - the pig-nosed turtle.

Our tour in the tunnel - Caden actually read the description of each fish presented along the walkway. Ethan spent his time snapping photographs..

His masterpiece

 The 3 boys trapped in an aquarium!

Actual size of a Japanese flower crab. I told Caden that if we were really to meet one, we had to run as fast as our legs can do!

At the Dolphin Lagoon. The show was supposed to start at 2pm, but the weather turned bad and started drizzling. Nontheless the crew went ahead with the performance but it ended abruptly because the downpour turned heavy halfway through.

The sea lions


Since it was raining heavily, we had to also abandon our plan to play at the beach and head towards vivocity for our late lunch.