Breakfast with the Orangutans and the Browne’s!

What another great day it was today!  I met the Browne’s (D – mom, A-one twin, M – other twin) at their beautiful house not far from my hotel.  They are

American but I met them in Athens, Greece as the girls attended K-2 there.  The girls will be attending CIS too!

python

A and M

We took a taxi out to the Singapore Zoo to have breakfast with the orangutans and then spent the day at the zoo.  The zoo has a lot of different plants and vegetation that is welcoming to both the visitors and the animals!  Their habitats are well-laid out and spacious. 

As we ate breakfast so did the orangutans, which are SO cute!  We were able to have our pictures taken with them (in the background).  The zoo took the photos and also you could use get your photo taken with your own camera – but those one didn’t turn out as well as the “zoo photographer” photos… which cost $35 for an 8x10 with a free key chain.  But I just went with what I had!  I also held a python and got some great photos of the orangutans!

We went to the sea lion Splash Safari show – where M volunteered and got a big wet kiss from the sea lion.  Then we continued on to the elephant show, the Fragile Forest (which contained parrots, flying foxes (large bats), butterflies, ducks, lemurs and other free-flying creatures!), and saw just about every other animal.  We ended our 8 hour tour of the zoo with an elephant

2-toed sloth

ride!

$5 to feed the rhino - he had quite
a square mouth!

I am looking forward to going to the Night Safari sometime this month (as purchased a double ticket price for both zoo and safari!).  We then retreated back to the Browne’s for a swim and some dinner.  I also did a load of laundry and Skyped with the Confers and Blaufuss!!!!!

sleeping flying fox - it was about 1 m from me!

Another fabulous day here in Singapore!