This morning Sarah had her last swimming lesson and then we had a quick snack and headed out to the zoo.
The zoo opens at 8:30 and I normally like to get there when it opens because it is cooler and less crowded. We left the house just after 10! Parking was no problem and we signed up for a year membership when we arrived (I'd heard the zoo is really good and we'd use it!).
The zoo was the best zoo I've ever been to by far. I can't figure out how they do it, but there are so many exhibits where the animals are truly within reach and no enclosures. How do they keep them in their "exhibit" space? How does no one get killed? We only made it through about half of the zoo before we had to call it a day. We plan to go back the last week of break to see the other half.
We saw the cutest little baby pygmy hippo; Anna was thrilled to see a white tiger; we saw lots of monkeys & apes; and we saw a show called "The Rainforest Strikes Back" where there was a boa constrictor locked up in a "log" in the row directly behind us--eeeeeek! I was seriously freaking out when the announcer pulled the snake out of this log and wrapped it around his shoulders right next to me. The kids were a little freaked out, too, but luckily none of us truly panicked and the guy with the snake eventually moved up on to the stage area.
One thing the Singapore Zoo could improve on is the number of bathrooms around the grounds. We had to walk quite a way from the Rainforest show to the nearest bathroom and then there was a super-duper long line to use it. Anyway, we all left happy and tired and wanting to return again and that's great news in my book!
