Singapore day four - Adventure Cove water park

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Sun Sep 1

Slept terribly. Woke up in the middle of the night furious about something at work. Something I imagined / dreamt had happened at work. Today we are off to the water park I hope it will be more relaxing. Reasonably early start, massive breakfast, at least for me. Wife had omelette, T2 had nothing, still feeling a bit sick. T1 had some chicken curry. There are curry like thing every day, so actually today I had Dahl too. We have a cabana booked at the water park and this gets us some food and drink credit, might take the edge off the expense. But if we're there all day we are hostage to whatever price it is.

Back from waterpark, it was ok. T2 not week enough to enjoy it really but he went round the lazy river and had a play in the splash park. Wife slightly under weather too so sat out with him. T1 and I went on everything but one ride that had a huge queue.

I have lost the enthusiasm for the dictating here already and we're only a few days into the trip! The water park was ok, we knew it wasn't going to be as good as say Volcano Bay, so it was fine. We did have the cabana, it's not Center Parcs standard with a TV or anything, and there are only two loungers and a safe in it, but it was fine. This made a good place for T2 to sit most of the day until he felt a bit better. Then mostly T1 and I went round the park. I didn't take loads of pictures today even. We did see a lovely "pirate ship" on the way to the park, called The Albatross I think, you could book a dinner cruise on it. We did not.

I said we went on everything but one ride that had a huge queue but I am wrong. We knew at the time there was a thing called "the wet maze" which we didn't go to, but we could see it later from a cable car (more later), and it looked quite good, looked like the thing in Takeshi's Castle. Also from the air we could see there was another big ride that we had completely missed that had a typhoon whirlpool type thing like the one in Center Parcs. Not sure how we missed that one. We enjoyed the lazy river, though got a bit sunburnt on that, were on it too long. We only got two of the huge rubber rings to start, so headed off to find two more, and while we were off finding them the other two found two more and then tried to follow us, so we went a couple of times round the park at 180 degrees to each other before giving up. We went on a ride where you go face down on a mat and race each other, and another a few times where you sit in a rubber ring, or a rubber ring for two, like a big long flume rider. Liked that, but it was all a bit hot queueing up. We used our $25 credit on buying some drinks, and left before we had to. T2 got a Mr Beast chocolate bar from the vending machine, hadn't seen one of those before. Mr Beast is a youtube phenomenon for children.

Later in the evening we walked back to a bar we'd seen near Universal Studios to eat. I had to have snacky bits, but they were quite good, including some charred edemame. Best thing about this place was two retro arcade machines, the boys very much enjoyed those. I got some fake wine and an alcohol free beer here too, deciding this would be a not drinking day. I think about half the holiday were not drinking days, that's quite healthy for a holiday, if not up to my non-holiday austerity measures.