Our 1st JUNGLE WALK@ MacRitchie Reservoir & Monster Vs Alien

Anthea and Anders are very “PAMPERED” children and when they walk a little mile more, both will be screaming TIRED. I had a very bad walking experienced with them when we were in Hong Kong.

So in order to prepare them for better physical endurance, I told Adrian that we must trained them for distance walking, especially since we are going to Sydney soon.

On Sunday morning after breakfast, we made our way for our 1st family trip to MacRitchie Reservoir for our 1st Jungle Walk in Singapore.

As it was the 5th Sunday of the month, so Anthea swimming lesson had a break. So it was just good timing that we do our walk.

We left home around 10 am and reached MR in about 20 minutes. We were pleasantly surprised to see the new car park facilities at the park and later from the Sunday Times; we realized that the new phase of the upgrading was completed. Soon, there will be an amenities centre.

We started with our walk and Adrian led us into the Jungle Trail. As we walked along the way through the reservoir, we also took the opportunity to explain the function of the reservoir to Anthea. She was very surprised to learn about it and kept asking us questions… : )

As we started our Jungle Trail, Anders was getting a bit frightened and kept telling me: “mommy, so scare…” and he hold my hands very tight…hehe. I told him there is nothing to worry about as there are no dangerous animals there.

Along the way, we saw many joggers and also families with children.

Our 1st animal encounter was Squirrels. We saw many of them and they were jumping from trees to trees and at one point, it seem like they were flying. The next animal we saw was a monitor lizard. Adrian was the one who spotted it amid the grass and the children were excited to see it and said that it was a komodo dragon…haha. After that we saw fishes/turtles by the water and we “secretly” fed them with a piece of bread. The last animals we saw were Ander’s favorite – monkeys. They were many of them and they were playing with once another. We dared not feed them food as we may get FINED…hehe.

As we walked, we also had a few “pit stop” – the children had the home baked cookies during the rest and they were so delighted.

We completed our 5 Km walk by noon time. After washing up and changed at the park, we had lunch at the Long House. We had a very nice and delicious lunch of duck rice, bak-chu noodles, popiah, fish & chips and goring pisang.

Both Anthea and Anders kept saying that they had a wonderful walk in the jungle and I am glad we did the walk and hopefully, they can do distance walking in Sydney too.

In the evening, before going to my In-laws house for dinner, we went to watch the 5pm movie. No prize for guessing what show …hehe.

It’s MONSTER vs. ALIEN and it was a fun movie. The children had a good time at the movie, especially with Popcorn and drink to keep them busy.

We had dinner at my In-laws house and there were plans made for Father’s Day/ my FIL’s birthday and many makan opportunities.

Yes, school holidays is all about having fun with the families. I know I am going to enjoy this month.