Lesson learned.

No matter how many times that your child expressed her fear of water fountains or swimming pool, always bring her swimsuit on family trips. You’ll never know.

Every family trip, we never fail to bring our DSLR and digital cameras. Husband even brought 3 lenses for this trip. While packing our bags, I even saw three new swimsuits of our daughter that have yet to be worn. I didn’t bring them as I have no swimming time in our itinerary.

Bad decision. When we arrived the Singapore Zoo, I saw on some of the posters that they have what they call “wet play”. I dismissed it knowing my daughter isn’t too fond of water play anyway. I saw on the zoo map that the Kidzworld has a carousel, my daughter’s favorite. So while the husband took shots, my daughter and I headed to Kidzworld. Unfortunately, when we arrived at the ticket booth, we were told that the carousel is under renovation.

When my daughter saw the wet play area, she told me she wanted to “swim”.

U-oh! It was only one hour before closing time (zoo closes at 6pm) and the swimsuit being sold in their store is too expensive for an hour of use. Well, of course, she can use the swimsuit again but still, I can’t dismiss that she has tons at home, and I didn’t like the style and colors of those being sold.

I explained to her that we can go swimming when we get back to the Philippines, and that she can play in the playground instead. She agreed. Whew!