River safari

The Brunke family came over for their last family visit to Singapore (they are leaving Brunei in early August). The kids were so happy seeing each other again and got more excited when we arrived at the zoo! A large part of the River Safari is still not open but we were keen to see the pandas again and check out some of the new parts of the zoo.



Ready for a hot-fun day!



The first half was ok but not too exciting (to me anyway), there were lots of fish and turtles etc:



The crocodiles were cool to watch tho:





Took some time to convince Oliver it is not going to move!



Of course no problem for Luca to jump on:



We spent a good 20min or so watching all the giant fish before heading into the Panda forest:







Unfortunately one of the Pandas was inside the house so we only saw this one (we went in again in the afternoon and that time we could see both :)





Say PANDA!



We saw some monkeys hanging off the rail...



Very intense reading session...



Mina and Luca were getting along quite well by the time we came out of the panda exhibit. They are so cute to look at together.





Time to cross the river - weeeeeee!!!!!





On the other side exciting boat rides like this were still under construction so we didn't spend much time there. We started off watching the animal show.

I thought they could have put on a slightly better show, it was ok but nothing impressive :(











By the time we finished watching these animals the kids were getting tired. So we decided to order our taxi and head back home.

It was a shame we discovered there were more exhibits we could have spent time at on this side of the river. There is a squirrel monkey forest where you can get very close to the monkeys and the Amazon flooded forest where you can sit in the cool air-conned room and see the big manatees swim around. But as we already ordered our taxi we were sort of in a rush to get through...

I recommend you wait till all the parts are open to visit the River Safari but if you just want to see the Pandas like us, it is not crowded anymore.

It was certainly a good day out for the kids tho! They had a fantastic time together :)

We had only a few more hours of play time together when we got back to our apartment. They had a quick swim in the pool and had lots of fun.

It is always so hard to say goodbyes but we are sure we will be seeing each other sometime in the not far future.

Ashley saying good bye to the girls:





And to their parents:



Thanks Brunke family for coming to visit us. Good luck with all the moving and settling in back in Germany. We will miss you!