Jacobs Ballas Children's Garden March Visit

March 22 was one of those days that the children were free from any lessons. It was a break from Chinese Speech and Drama classes at Hokkien Huay Kuan so Mommy took a much needed weekend break to bond with the girls. It was a hard time deciding where to go, since almost every time they will want to go to Sentosa. Hmm, I guess they're really beach girls but Mommy decided that sometimes there are more places to see and more things to do than just going to the usual Palawan Beach.

So we decided on the Jacobs Ballas Children's Garden. We've heard some good raves and wanted to find out how child-friendly the place was, apart from taking some pictures with the new Pikkolo baby carriers and testing it out for longer periods of time.

My, it really was an eye-opener. It was not too big and everything was in sample size (meaning to say there is no big field of any particular plants) and the kids can move around quite comfortably. There were also some sort of play areas for the kids, combining nature with play, allowing them to enjoy it without knowing that they are actually learning. Brilliant.

The only imperfection was that it rained the day before and the grounds were a little soggy, but it didn't stop us from having much fun.

Having fun learning about photosynthesis

The long slide...

Relaxing... where's the tea?

Some purple beans....

Don't they look like butterflies?

Simply fascinated

After the playing and the learning, the girls decided they were hungry. I suppose they were not but they can never resist smelling some french fries and nuggets and walking away without having any. So we did make a pitch-stop at the small eatery just at the entrance of the Jacobs Ballas Children's Garden. It was a snack to help them recharge so that we could go on and enjoy parts of the Botanic Gardens which was just beside where we were.

Deliciously sinful snack

The Botanic Gardens turned out to be an even more interesting place since they were able to chase some pigeons and see for the first times in their lives, tadpoles! Overall, a wonderful trip and Kieona did enjoy enough to ask that we visit it again sometime soon.

Chasing the pigeons

One having fun, the other getting lazy

Can you spot the tiny tadpoles?