Singapore – Day 3:
Anyone who has ever been to Aquatica would be hard pressed to consider Adventure Cove an actual water park.
Why? Well mainly because there isn’t a pool here that seems deeper than 5 feet and the most death defying ride (if you can call it that) is a 4 foot rope that you climb to ring a bell, and then if you are brave enough, jump to your possible death into a.. kiddie pool.
Less you think I am disparaging this place though, let me disabuse you of that assumption right now. While I normally hate water parks, I love Lazy Rivers (probably because of the word “lazy” in it). And the Lazy River here is the Mississippi of all lazy rivers.
First off, it’s expansive and every cool and neat idea that could be incorporated into a river has been. There are fountains, statues, bridges, caves, waterfalls, and even more amazing-interactive aquariums with all manner of sea life swimming next to, around, over, and even underneath you. I think I have been ruined for future lazy rivers.
Then it was off to China Town for a little temple chasing, and a spectacular Christmas light tour show followed by window shopping and more Christmas lights on Orchard Street, the Rodeo Drive of Singapore.
Adventure Cove is not as adventurous as it sounds but it’s still great fun.
Kind of depressing that Santa weighs less than me, but I give him an ‘A’ for effort.
Best Lazy River ever!
Paige and I on the Aquarium portion of the Lazy River.
They even had a snorkel pool, and Olivia was a champ snorkeling for the first time.
What they did not spend on scary rides, was more than made up for on everything else.
China Town which sadly, we really didn’t have time to explore in depth.
This temple is not just for looks. People come and worship here all the time.
We didn’t know until it was too late that our Christmas Lights Tour required all of us to don Christmas hats. In the end, we just went with it.
Don’t they look cute? And yes, we went all over town like this.
Christmas Light Show…awesome in every way. These towers actually collect rain water during the non-holiday season.
These lights were all expertly choreographed to Christmas music and wonderful in every way.
My family getting comfortable and enjoying the amazing show…all except my littlest elf who is playing on her Itouch. Argh..every single trip, at least one of our kids does this.
Merry Christmas! I do love Christmas lights.
Olivia who is turning into an avid little photographer and looks like a naughty elf here.
Either she or one of the kids took this shot. Pretty good eh?
Window shopping on Orchard Street and admiring the Christmas Decorations.
This is white and yellow corn flavored ice cream, which I liked and of course, Brian did not.
No matter what country we are in, there’s always room for ice cream.
Christmas through the eyes of your kids is priceless and magical.
Goodbye for now Singapore, we loved visiting you. Now onto the second leg of our Far East Tour. We’ll see you back in 5 days!