SG50 Golden Jubilee weekend - 9th Aug 2015

 

We decided to spend our National Day at Singapore Sports Hub as there was a SG50 carnival event. Given the array of activities that we could cover (as shown below), we thought it's enough to keep us occupied for the whole afternoon till 8pm when we can catch the fireworks display.

 



We parked our car at Mountbatten and took the circle line train to Stadium. Haha, we thought it was going to be easy and smooth but we were shocked to see the massive crowds inside the train cabins and we had difficulties boarding the trains at Dakota. To my mind, I was thinking maybe these people are heading towards promenade station to watch the fireworks display at night.. so happened that there was a rather empty train that came along after a while (because it wasn't meant to allow passengers onto board), we went onto it, hoping that it will open at Stadium.

So we reached the Sports Hub and met up with Brian's family. There were many games stations outside the stadium but the more popular ones like MegaBounce and Kids Peddle boat had a queue which requires us to stand in line for 60 minutes. As the weather was hot and humid, we only got the boys to play those oldie games and they didn't seem to have much fun..

Throwing the top:

 

 

As we head towards Aquatic Centre, we saw this soccer game table and decided to have a go.. it was fun (but not free!)

 

 

The 4 boys spent a fair bit of time playing with the kick scooters that Brian and Winnie had brought along. Ethan suggested to the rest of the boys to do a 400m race and he managed to beat all others and reached the finishing line first!

 

 

Big victory!



totally exhausted

Second to reach, while Aidan followed closely behind

After dinner, we watched the fireworks display with many many others around but we felt that the view there in Sports hub was not spectacular. We once had an experience at Esplanade and were so close to the fireworks display and that was spectacular (with the accompanying sound effects). So we are not going to watch fireworks display in town again, unless we can get nearer to the parade venue.

 



picture taken by caden

I guessed the boys had fun playing with kick scooters and on the soccer table game but that was all...
we managed to beat the massive crowd and catch a train back to Dakota right before the end of the NDP show. Honestly, it is definitely more cosy and comfortable watching NDP at home with good food..  :)