Sunday, May 20, 2007

Swimming at Uncle Victor's

The Sunday after Papa and Mama came back from Taipei, we met up with Uncle Don, Auntie Lena and Summer, as the two kids haven't been playing with each other for quite a while, as before Papa and Mama's trip, Uncle Don and Auntie Lena went to the States too, with Summer staying at her grandma's place too. We decided to go for a swim at Uncle Victor and Auntie Tonya's place, as there is a fun pool with slides and water features! This time, there were 3 kids, with the special appearance of Summer's cousin, Rachel, who's parents happened to be overseas as well! This time, Papa and Mama wanted to try Lyn Lyn out with her Hello Kitty life jacket and see whether she can float in it. She was not resistant to it, as she saw Dora and Boots wearing it in one of the Dora adventures before! She was busy playing with water guns (those bought for her birthday at Aloha Changi?!), new bubble set that Mama bought from Taipei and the various water outlets in that special pool!

After playing over there for a long while, Uncle Victor was done with inflating the floating bed. All of us proceeded to the adult pool to try it out. Initially, the kids were a little skeptical and observed the adults for a while before giving a go themselves. Lyn Lyn and Summer were brave enough to hop on to it and being pushed around...later, after much persuasion, Rachel agreed to join in as well...she was very scared of the possibility of falling into the water! But after she had a first try, she refused to leave the floating bed!

After a round of busy action, Lyn Lyn was already tired...she requested to rest for a while. She was eyeing on the snacks by the pool side and sat next to Uncle Don for a quick energy boost!

After the short break, she couldn't wait to get back into action and joined the adults in "fighting" to stay afloat on the floating bed! You want to know what happened when Lyn Lyn sat with Auntie Lena? Auntie Lena couldn't navigate and kept going further and further from the rest...all of us couldn't stop laughing as she was using all her energy to get further and further away!

Before we head back, Mama was trying to teach Lyn Lyn to float by first piggyback riding her around the pool and followed by supporting her body, whilst she do face down "swimming". She's very interested in learning to swim, as that was one of the featured stories from her Topsy and Tim books. She was even asking for armbands, but Papa and Mama just had problems locating them...still trying...

Both adults and kids had so much fun and we had dinner at a restaurant near to Uncle Victor and Auntie Yaya's place, for Sichuan steamboat, Mama's favourite! It's quite good value, costing only S$18.80++ per adult!

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