Summer Singapore: Boys and Toys

The idea of being obsessed with transportation vehicles has always been a mystery to me. I never learnt how to ride a bike till i was Primary 5 (11 yrs old), and that was only because we had to go to East Coast Park for Children's day celebration and i didn't want to lose face in front of my friends. I was (is?) chubby, I was a prefect, so i didn't want anyone to make fun of me. Not surprisingly, i still don't have a driver's license until now, and i suspect i never will.

So back to my almost 2 yr old.

He is absolutely positively bonkers about vehicles. In Singapore he is content with daily trips to the mall via the public transport. In fact it's a reward we used often to make him go to sleep, "Take your nap ok? We'll take the bus afterwards."

But his biggest treat this trip was our visit to the Alexander Fire Station located next to Queensway Shopping Centre, open to the public from 9-11am every Saturday morning. Big, small, long short... all sorts of civil defence vehicles to create havoc in. On some days, the fireman can hoist u up the ladder up to 8 storeys high!!

Firemen Mountain Boy and Cousin ready for the next mission!

They even give u a helmet for keepsake. Mountain Boy wanted to wear it all the time so i had to bring it back to Beijing.

Maa, can i have this one instead?