One of the greatest joys of parenting is to be totally immersed and involved in your children’s obsessions.
Boys usually start with cars or balls. Then they move on to trains, dinosaurs, soldiers, LEGO and superheroes of all kinds.
Girls typically are obsessed with the colour pink, in addition to being a little mad about a cat with no mouth, princesses and dolls.
My boys have been into dinosaurs for the longest time. They can rattle those three to four-syllable names faster than I can call theirs, and it’s fascinating how they can immerse themselves so completely in the prehistoric world – from wanting to colour dinosaurs all day long and learning their names, to constructing massive dinosaur parks with thier LEGO bricks and dino figurines and pleading to go to Jurassic Park every single weekend.
Jurassic Park, by the way, exists in the minds of these boys.
In Universal Studios Singapore, that is (which is also called The Lost World).
Photo credit: rwsentosa.com
This is a place where you can go dino-soaring on pterodactyls, put your head into a T-Rex’s mouth, and pat Diane, the park’s latest infant triceratops – which incidentally is the current obsession of Nat, my youngest. This boy loves, loves, loves triceratops.
Nat goes a dino-soaring with a green triceratops
And then real dino-soaring with the pterodactyls
And we meet Diane, the infant triceratops. She moves and responds to you when you pat her – which freaks my little girl out and fascinates her brothers
This velociraptor dude looks so real and it moves!
T-Rex chomp!
Help!
The Lost World is a place we head to whenever my boys need their dino-fix.
We got the Universal Studios Singapore’s 6-month season pass in December last year and have been visiting the theme park on a regular basis. It’s a happy place, with happy music blaring everywhere; happy people always smiling, waving, laughing, greeting; happy mascots roaming around; and happy, happy rides.
Being there makes me happy. Being there makes my children happy.
We get fun times taking rides, goofing times posing for pictures, and laugh-out-loud times spotting characters. And best of all, we spend A LOT of time, as my boys would have it, at Jurassic Park, where their dinosaur dreams come alive. Their imagination takes off and soars to a new height with every repeated visit to this place.
There’s a triceratops on top!
How about some predator a’roaring?
Toy store fun: Becks grabs a stuffed toy but the boys… are all for jaws and teeth
You don’t know how grateful I am for Universal Studios. It has allowed me to participate in the dino-madness with my children, something which I know I wouldn’t be able to do for long because they will all grow up soon enough.
Next stop: the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Mueseum. We’ll be found there real soon!
Jurassic Park Huddle
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