Singapore Airshow 2008
The so called ‘Asia’s largest airshow‘ is still on till tomorrow, and as we wanted the kids to see, hear and experience for themselves the aerobatics shows and displays, we all went there today.
And apparently, some 40,000 others did too! (Oh the sea of people was unbelievable!)
The weather was SO blazing hot, and the shuttle bus trip took so much longer than expected! About an hour, from the moment we queued up for the bus! Once we reached there the show already started (gah!) and we couldn’t enjoy the earlier parts of the aerobatic flying displays because we still had to go through quite a bit of a procedure to reach the ‘open field’.
We walked under a cover, went into a building to queue (again) and go through a metal detector checker (for everyone’s safety).
Hmm. I’ve got to say, the organiser’s control of the traffic and crowds were poor. AND we didn’t get to see the first thirty minutes of the show as the result! *rolls eyes*
Anyway, I still did enjoy the whatever remaining aerobatic flying displays we managed to catch.
Looking up, squinting while carrying Vai in my sling, the thunderous sounds of the planes made the whole experience at the time so ‘tangible’, so worth while!
Well, at least to me (and even more so for hubby, who’s very into aircrafts!).
The kids’ excitement kinda evaporated into warm air within half an hour of reaching the site though. Part of it is because of the long time spent queuing up and traveling on the shuttle bus, I guess.
Poor thing.
Towards the end, Vai leaned real closely to me and started to slowly doze away, in sweat. Anya kept her fingers stuck in her ears almost throughout the show. And she sure wasn’t her cheerful self with three big red ant bites on the sole of her foot (talk about timing!).
She insisted either to sit on the pram or be carried by Daddy. So that was quite a tough one for us (and for our arms and shoulders too!).
Well anyway.
It was an experience we’ll remember for quite some time. The good and the not-so-good parts of it all.
And we’ll come again the next time it’s held here in Singapore. Hopefully, everything’s much better too by then.
Photo credit:
All photos – other than that of my hubby with his camera – were taken by him, Wilson.
