March...

The highlight in March was Julian and Yasmin visiting Universal Studios on Sentosa Island (Singapore’s version of Nassau’s Paradise Island, also linked by a long bridge). The entrance fee is actually surprisingly good value although a day’s car parking more than makes up for it, being about 35% of the price of two tickets! There is a ‘Far Far Away’ complete with Shrek, Puss in Boots and an attractive non-Ogre version of Princess Fiona (for the dads I guess). There is a 4D short film with the Shrek characters and the usual 3D glasses - the 4D comes in with moving chairs and various neat tricks with air and water that results in everyone visibly cringing when Donkey really sneezes all over you and you actually feel spiders crawling on your head!

Other attractions include Madagascar  - we like to move it move it! - Egyptian temples and tombs, and a New York street with break dancers and Charlie Chaplin, and a superb quartet singing West Coast  - Beach Boys and Eagles hits.  Yasmin managed to dance with them in front of everyone being the little showboat that she is...

Disappointingly Yasmin is still too small for the two seriously scary looking helter skelters about which Dad was seriously relieved - she can do them with friends when she is a teenager. Leave me out of it! However he did persuade her that the water ride would not be a problem and that most people did not look that wet coming off it.  How wrong can one be?  At least it was the last ride of the day and the BlackBerry survived a dousing - daughter shed a few tears resolved by more ice cream, of course.

And this being Singapore there are ten times more eating options than you see at comparable parks - spoilt for choice we were so it was somewhat disappointing that hot dogs and ice cream remain the lunch of choice for little girls when ‘5-a-day’ Mum is not around.

As usual Julian kept on travelling with trips to KL, Bangkok and Jakarta during the month, including a fine evening with Chris, Sarah and Keith in Jakarta playing Sequence and drinking red wine. Keith managed to secure me first class treatment all the way back to Singapore - they know how to travel at Rolls Royce (no real surprise there!).

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