It's been a long time since the last update. But here's one right now! :)
We recently (hmm last Thursday, 15 July 2010) went to see the Singapore Garden Festival at Suntec City. It was BEAUTIFUL. We seriously recommend this for a family outing for the following reasons:
- lots of colourful flowers used for BEAUTIFUL garden designs
- lots of ideas for garden at home (yes HDB too... cool eh)
- it's HUGE (with 2 storeys 4th & 6th with lots to see. it's spacious too; so no need to worry about strollers if you're bringing little children)
- lots of vendors selling flowers & gardening related stuff
- AND it's indoors and air conditioned (no need to worry about unpredictable weather)
- oh n it's at Suntec City, if all else fail, you could always shop ;)
Smiles in the bus. Everyone's excited :)
We then headed straight to the 6th floor (straight if you exclude toilet stops hehe). When we went inside, the first thing we saw was an exploding splash of colours. We saw garden designs in various concepts i.e. Chinese Garden, English Garden, Kampong Garden etc. There was even a remake of a tropical rainforest complete with water fountains!!! There were variations in the designs for example, the Chinese Garden was subtly divided into modern and traditional. The teachers took every opportunity to stop and explain to the children whenever they see a familiar flower.
Explaining the plant man planting.
We also had a guided tour (by Pauline, the staff there). She was very helpful in explaining the significance of the design to the children and was so ready to answer the children's questions. Thank you Pauline! Anyway, after we walked through the whole of the 6th floor (well almost), we headed down for lunch. We sat at the cafeteria and ate sandwiches! We had tuna, egg and chocolate sandwich (thank you aunty for packing for us!). We then had round 2; this time at the 4th floor.
hmm next stop...
There, we were greeted with a whole range of ORCHIDS! There were white, yellow, orange, red (red!!!) and blue orchids!!! There were all sorts of orchids; pure bred orchids, big orchids, tiny orchids, we even saw one hybrid of orchid and a pitcher plant that gave off a funky smell (honest!!!). There were vendors selling all sorts of gardening related stuff. There was a minute garden above our heads that can only be looked through a periscope (how cool was that??). Of course our children had to try and explore all the periscopes (and we were more than happy to let them). They were pleasantly surprised to see something through it :)
Us under the minute garden :) Try taking getting 6 children under 3 years old to sit still for 2 minutes for photo taking... It's not easy :)
We walked to the rest of the exhibits after that. We saw garden designs in HDBs, flower related arts and crafts by primary school children (which gave our teachers lots of ideas for their own classrooms :D) and we even got to play with a tablet PC (teachers too!).
Cute eh? Hehehe.
Overall, it was quite a lot to see at the exhibition. Our children were excited to explore the exhibition (sadly no touching :( was allowed ). But we still had a fun time at the Singapore Garden Festival. We headed for school after that and like always, almost all the children fell asleep in the bus ride back (and like always, the teachers did too). We'd like to thank the parents that joined us for the trip. We hope you had a blast and we hope you would join us again in the not so distant future :)
Excited children they are. :)
Signing Off,
hmm next stop...
There, we were greeted with a whole range of ORCHIDS! There were white, yellow, orange, red (red!!!) and blue orchids!!! There were all sorts of orchids; pure bred orchids, big orchids, tiny orchids, we even saw one hybrid of orchid and a pitcher plant that gave off a funky smell (honest!!!). There were vendors selling all sorts of gardening related stuff. There was a minute garden above our heads that can only be looked through a periscope (how cool was that??). Of course our children had to try and explore all the periscopes (and we were more than happy to let them). They were pleasantly surprised to see something through it :)
Us under the minute garden :) Try taking getting 6 children under 3 years old to sit still for 2 minutes for photo taking... It's not easy :)
We walked to the rest of the exhibits after that. We saw garden designs in HDBs, flower related arts and crafts by primary school children (which gave our teachers lots of ideas for their own classrooms :D) and we even got to play with a tablet PC (teachers too!).
Cute eh? Hehehe.
Overall, it was quite a lot to see at the exhibition. Our children were excited to explore the exhibition (sadly no touching :( was allowed ). But we still had a fun time at the Singapore Garden Festival. We headed for school after that and like always, almost all the children fell asleep in the bus ride back (and like always, the teachers did too). We'd like to thank the parents that joined us for the trip. We hope you had a blast and we hope you would join us again in the not so distant future :)
Excited children they are. :)
Signing Off,
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