Snow? In Singapore?

A place smack on the equator getting snow? Not possible, you say huh?

Singapore goes out of the way to prove you wrong.

The Singapore Science Center has a fairly large facility where the temperature is maintained at 2.9 degrees below zero (or sometimes lower). And there is a lot of snow in there!

That's where we went on Sunday. The initial plan for the Sunday was a visit to the Singapore Zoo. But the rains here don't have a 5 day week. They have a 2 day week, starting on the weekend. The heavens opened up & showered Singapore with all gusto. So in this marvelously wet condition, we didn't think the zoo would be the best place to go.

So the Snow City it was. The place is a bit far from our house & so my daughter did her famous impression of Donkey from "Shrek" (going "Are we there yet?") about 20 times. Boy, were we glad when the cab stopped in front of the Snow City Lobby.

Here's the deal. You get jackets & gloves & snow shoes. And then you get into this vault kind of thing, which by the way, gets you starting to feel really cold.

And then you step into a space which is dominated by white. Snow all around! They even have this snow ramp where you can sit on rubber tyre tubes & slide down.

So we did a lot of snowballing, especially my daughter as it was her first experience with snow. Then some more stuff like putting the nose back on the snowman. A crawl thro the metal igloo (wow, that rhymes!) and then we headed for the slopes.

Now this is no slalom slope, but it's good enough for a slide! The three of us sat ourselves on these rubber tubes, locked our arms together at the elbow & wheeeeee......

I thought my daughter would crib about the place being cold & the ride being scary. But she was the first one on her feet going "Let's do that again". So we did. Again. Again. Again.

We must have climbed up to the top of the slope & slid down around 20 times! And each was better than the last. Cause we were spinning around & going down faster than the last time. Wheee...

Great fun. Nice place to go. You should try it.