Showing posts with label zoo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label zoo. Show all posts

Monday, September 5, 2011

A Day at the Zoo - 1st Sept 2011


We really did quite a bit of outing during the recent long MerdekaRaya holiday.

Shopping - checked but will do it again and again, be it holiday or not.
Movies - checked.
Food hunting - ongoing but checked.

Since we have done almost everything, DH said we should visit the zoo, AGAIN! This is Isabelle's second trip. But I do agree that at her current age, it does make a lot more sense to her. The animals look more familiar and she can relate to them more now than the first time we brought her there.

I woke up a little earlier to prepare our zoo breakfast. Mashed hard boiled eggs (with raisins & sundried tomatoes strips) to go with buns and iced coffee.

Breakfast gone

I was extremely hungry when we reached the zoo. Stopped at the air-conditioned rest hut for food therapy. Home made breakfast in a cool room on a warm and not so cool morning with the view of a pond filled with storks and pelicans. Sounds awesome? Apparently, not really when you have a happy and active toddler running like mad around you. Isabelle was excited and she was running everywhere and suddenly bump into me when I was holding a cup with my beloved iced coffee. The coffee splashed onto my white tee. And it was just the beginning of our day at the zoo and I don't have any spare tee with me. ARGH!

I braved myself and continued our zoo excursion with a coffee stained tee and smelling so very caffeiney. I am glad I did not let my frustration take over the situation because we did had a really good time. Yeah, it was a very hot day and all but when I know our little one is happy, everything else don't seems to matter.

Here's some shots from our adventure :)

Making conversation with a little lamb

Posing with some storks

The graceful giraffes



Monday, July 5, 2010

Trip to the Zoo

DH had wanted to bring Isabelle to the zoo since many months ago. The idea did not appeal to me before our holiday to Langkawi. The hot weather, animal's stinky poo, sweaty mummy & baby and so on. But Isabelle's curiousity and ability to focus was amazing and I almost forgot she is not a little innocent baby anymore. She is a curious and want to know all and see all little toddler. And it is about time to let her see tigers and lions comes alive from her books and dvds.

She had such a wonderful time wow-ing at all the fishes and penguins during our excursion to Langkawi Underwater World and I figured out she would have more fun at the zoo.
cute sun bear

deers


I underestimated the duration of hours we would spend in the zoo. Hungry and thirsty as we finished the water supply we brought with us. We stopped at the zoo cafe. Food was so so. But we were too hungry to be picky.

Waited till 3pm for the amphitheatre show to start. It was a long wait. Again, lucky we have the sling with us. Popped Isabelle inside and walk around the indoor aquarium (since that is the only air conditioned section in the entire zoo). Once she fell asleep, we went to the theatre, spotted a nice seat with fairly good view of the stage and waited there.

Show was good. Atleast, it caught 80% of Isabelle's attention.

What a day. Thank God for the cloudy weather. It was not as warm and sweaty as I expected. Overall, we had a fun time.