Jurong Bird Park
Today I went to the Jurong Bird Park which boasts over (insert large awe inspiring number here) kinds of birds/species. It was actually pretty cool--well, not weather wise. I took the train and a bus all by myself. Scott and Steve worshipped my bravery. I accepted it gracefully. Smile.
The park was huge with tons of wide open avaiaries. I loved walking through everything and just standing very still until I could see the wild life. At one point it rained and you could literally see the steam!
One thing I know the nephieces would have loved was the Lorrie Aviary. You could go in and feed them nectar from a cup. They are very brightly colored and inquisitive birds. I have a movie of one who decided to hop on my shoulder to see if I had any food. I didn’t. But it got a kick out of licking—you read that right—licking my face and neck and playing with my earring. It was pretty funny. One thing, though, the birds like to cheep, loudly. The one I made rte movie with kept dong it in my ear—it is more piercing than SP’s melodious call. It was fun feeding them. When I finally got some food for them I ended up with 3 of them crawling all over me. This is fine, but as is the way of nature. What goes in must come out. One kid saw the bird poop on my shirt and I thought he was going to bust a gut laughing at and pointing at me. Ahhh, children are so subtle! (It was easily washed off on in the bathroom—if only liquid goes in, only liquid comes out!)
Actually, I was kind of amazed of how many different large birds there are in the world. I mean some of them are totally prehistoric looking and scary. Unfortunealty I could not get any good pictures of them—they were in the shade. I watched a coupke of bird shows. I even was picked as a participant in one and “earned” a free drink ticket! A cockatoo flew out and put one in my hand. It was cool.
Later I got up with Steve and Scott and we went to a Chinese Szechwan restaurant called Si Chaun Doa Hua. It is called the Chicken Szechwan Death March Place by Steve and Scott. Hmmm, wonder what that could mean?
Anyway, we ate more weird food that I didn’t understand. I avoided the super super spicy stuff, but did have the chicken they were talking about. I did not eat the peppers—unlike a certain gullible weasel at the table who had to prove he could. We have it all on tape—Hee hee! Scott was in true pain! We also ate some jellyfish—which was ok, if you could get over the texture issue. We have Scott on tape eating that as well. It is, um, noisy and not pretty.
We also indulged in “Eight Treasures Tea”. It has a bunch of stuff—like whole flowers and nuts and strange looking berries. They pour in the hot water with these 6 foot long spouts. It was pretty amazing. In order to drink the tea you had to keep the cover on it. It tasted pretty good. We bought some. You all will have to try it!
The park was huge with tons of wide open avaiaries. I loved walking through everything and just standing very still until I could see the wild life. At one point it rained and you could literally see the steam!
One thing I know the nephieces would have loved was the Lorrie Aviary. You could go in and feed them nectar from a cup. They are very brightly colored and inquisitive birds. I have a movie of one who decided to hop on my shoulder to see if I had any food. I didn’t. But it got a kick out of licking—you read that right—licking my face and neck and playing with my earring. It was pretty funny. One thing, though, the birds like to cheep, loudly. The one I made rte movie with kept dong it in my ear—it is more piercing than SP’s melodious call. It was fun feeding them. When I finally got some food for them I ended up with 3 of them crawling all over me. This is fine, but as is the way of nature. What goes in must come out. One kid saw the bird poop on my shirt and I thought he was going to bust a gut laughing at and pointing at me. Ahhh, children are so subtle! (It was easily washed off on in the bathroom—if only liquid goes in, only liquid comes out!)
Actually, I was kind of amazed of how many different large birds there are in the world. I mean some of them are totally prehistoric looking and scary. Unfortunealty I could not get any good pictures of them—they were in the shade. I watched a coupke of bird shows. I even was picked as a participant in one and “earned” a free drink ticket! A cockatoo flew out and put one in my hand. It was cool.
Later I got up with Steve and Scott and we went to a Chinese Szechwan restaurant called Si Chaun Doa Hua. It is called the Chicken Szechwan Death March Place by Steve and Scott. Hmmm, wonder what that could mean?
Anyway, we ate more weird food that I didn’t understand. I avoided the super super spicy stuff, but did have the chicken they were talking about. I did not eat the peppers—unlike a certain gullible weasel at the table who had to prove he could. We have it all on tape—Hee hee! Scott was in true pain! We also ate some jellyfish—which was ok, if you could get over the texture issue. We have Scott on tape eating that as well. It is, um, noisy and not pretty.
We also indulged in “Eight Treasures Tea”. It has a bunch of stuff—like whole flowers and nuts and strange looking berries. They pour in the hot water with these 6 foot long spouts. It was pretty amazing. In order to drink the tea you had to keep the cover on it. It tasted pretty good. We bought some. You all will have to try it!
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