Museum Trip

Here's our battle formation to conquer the National and Arts Musuem with our CG mates. One lady organised this trip since it's the school holidays and the museums are having children-focused exhibitions and programs. It was a pity that Joshua couldn't come with us as he had a school event and couldn't take leave.

It was pretty cool that while taking the SMRT, the traffic marshal actually let us get onto the train first and requested for people to give up their seats to us during the morning peak hours. Thank God for wonderful staff like that!

First stop: National Musuem. The place had changed so much since I last went there that I accidentally took the scenic route up fort canning park and went in by the back door. Thankfully, I knew to give lots of buffer time or else we would have been late for the story-telling at 10am.

Babe in Cheong Sum

Assorted Baju

I was impressed with the way they tell the story of our culture. They involved the audience in the plot and the actors were very natural and humorous. We followed each performer from one scene to another in smooth transitions. Even I enjoyed the whole session. Not an easy thing to accomplish, I must say, since I come from a theatre background.

Story-telling

When my CG mate told me that we had to pay $5 for each arts and craft pack, I had thought that it was a rip-off. However, I was pleasantly surprised that they had really good stuff inside the brown paper bag. The materials to make the crown/hat were of good quality and the exercise book had many educational activities for the kids to do. The best part: there were teachers to guide them through the process and that freed the parents to relax and take pictures.

Undivided attention for each kid

Favorite pastime: Drawing

Jaide: "How does this work?"

Jayna: "Ang Ku Kueh, anyone?"

Lovely hats completed!

Next up after lunch: Arts Musuem. I was amazed that Joash recognised the Kopitiam which we went to eat at after going there just once during a seminar we attended more than a year ago. He even remembered that there was a statue of a melted superman at the arts musuem. Too bad it was replaced by a gigantic rabbit balloon.

Posing with the giant white rabbit

Even though there were many "Do not touch" signs on the displays, I guess they were just too attractive and inviting to the children. The kids all couldn't help but fiddle with the exhibits!

Making the bird fly

Colouring

Obssessed with sorting crayons

Babe on pink 'throne'

Princess on another 'throne'

A video of the children playing hoops-throwing.

My favourite exhibit

Star Wars???

Group Photo: Children outnumbered the adults!

We had a fun day although my back ached from carrying Joram in the carrier the whole day. The kids were so tired that, long before Joshua got home from work, all of them were asleep before their usual bedtime at 8.30pm despite the fact that we ate a long dinner at West Mall and I had to get them all bathed without Joshua's help. Thankfully, Joash has learnt to bathe himself so I had one less child to worry about.

I'm so looking forward to more trips like that with the CG people. *beam*