It was a good experience for our family. I had never been on a coach ride before and this is the first time on a coach ride for me. Papa said this can be used as a gauge whether I can tolerate the long coach journey of about 7 hours if we are going to church camp next year. I got to see many different sights as Mama held me up during the coach ride when we passed by Chinatown.
When we reached Botanic Gardens, all the participants separated into their respective program groups. There were 4 progammes running concurrently : treasure hunt, photography, drawing competition and visit to the Orchid Gardens. As the first 3 were not suitable for us as a family, Papa signed us up to go for a visit to the Orchid Gardens. Mama was telling many that it's like, wow, this is an orchid, ok, let's take a picture beside it.
But she was wrong, there were so many different types of orchid and they were very colourful. She took some pictures of it.
It was a sunny day and at the advice of Rev Lim, Mama decided to carry me as putting me in pram would expose me to more sunlight than is good for me. At some parts of the journey, Papa actually put me on his shoulders. I enjoyed it and pulled Papa's hair but Papa is already kind of used to it by now as he had put me on his shoulders a few times when we were at home.
As the participants as the Orchid Garden were mainly uncles and aunties in their middle-age, they also took note of me. I was kind of like a mini-attraction. Aunty Ter Shian reminded Mama to give me some water to drink as it was a hot day and Aunty Soo Fern fed me with water when we came to a resting point. Mama remembers that motherly look Aunty Soo Fern had when she was holding me in her arms. She tried to capture it on camera but the effect wasn't quite captured.
When we finished the short 1 hour visit, I was worn out and fell asleep in Papa's arms when we were on our way back to church in the coach. I was so deep in sleep that when Papa got down the coach with me in his arms in a somewhat awkward position, I did not wake up. He put me in a pram where I slept until they had almost finished the buffet lunch catered by the church.
Last night, I slept early just before 9pm. Papa thinks it must have been a tiring day for me. I actually slept until 5.45am this morning when I woke up for a milk feed and went back to sleep again until daylight.
Mama thinks this trip is a good prelude to the Zoo trip Papa wants to bring us when he clears his leave in December. That will be another blog entry on its own. :)
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