Zoo...Part # 1

Last weekend, Daddy has to attend a wedding reception at Ipoh and we decided to tag along. How could we (or me only!!) missed good "Ngah Choi Kai Si Hor Fun" and Dim Sum at Ipoh?! LOL

On Friday night, I have prep Ern that we are going to zoo and get to see lots of animal (i name a few). When I asked her back 'where are we going?", she did replied what I told her but instead of the usual tiger, elephant, she said snail,pig and giraffe! You may wonder why snail and pig, right? That's because the current puzzle that she is playing has snail and pig. So, the first few animals that first come to her mind all those animals from the puzzle.

We left home at 10am on Sat and Ern slept through right after we crossed the Penang Bridge till Taiping. Yup, we detour to Taiping, just to bring Ern to visit the Taiping Zoo. It was also her first 'real' vacation other than our usual monthly home trip to Hadyai.

We reached the zoo before noon and it wasn't crowded. We paid RM5 each on our zoo entrance ticket while Ern is still entitle for free entrance (below 3). It was a hot and humid afternoon, hence we decided to hop onto the tram car to see the zoo rather than walking. Lazy you can say! LOL



Ern enjoyed the ride although the tram moved a bit too fast (for her) before we get to explain and point to her where is the animal. Can you imagine it was so hot and humid until most of the animals were hiding under the shade! I think she didn't enjoy to the fullest as some of the animals were not familiar to her (like Chimpanzee and some bears). Or things just move too fast before she can digest them! Some she can recognize immediately were:


1)Zebra & Giraffe



2) Bird (we didn't teach her the species of bird)



3) Bear



4) Ostrich




5) Tiger



6) Rhinoceros



7) Elephant



I was disappointed with the zoo as it was a bit run down. I don't know if it is because the last zoo I visited was the zoo at Sydney and I have a 'pre-set' mind on the zoo standard??!!