West Coast Park & Holland Village

Today, after Juliana's nap, we decided to head out for the afternoon and began our outing at West Coast Park. I've heard a lot about this park and have been wanting to visit, but I don't think we'll be in any rush to return. It's certainly a nice park, but aimed more at older children as well as bike riding, picnics, etc. But we made the most of it and tried to visit the play areas that Juliana would enjoy.

Juliana and Jacob shared a milkshake, which is always a nice break from the scorching heat of Singapore!Here she is in the sand, running around and enjoying the freedom!

I'm not too sure what this was, but they got up there and tried to balance for a while...
An animal, of course she had to check this out. That's the straw from the milkshake that she is trying to put in it's mouth!!
Swinging her around over and over again. I got dizzy, but she was smiling and laughing, so it's always worth it.And by the water, but there's not much of a view since it's all boats and cargo ships. Still, the breeze by the water is always nice on a sunny day.

After the park and a very quick stop by West Coast Plaza (not much to see here), we headed to Holland Village for some Mexican food. Jacob and I have both heard bad things about the Mexican food, but we wanted to find out for ourselves. There are two right next door to each other, Cha Cha Cha and El Patio, so we settled on El Patio. The food wasn't exceptional, certainly nothing like La Carreta back at home, but it fulfilled out craving for Mexican for the time being. I think that we we eventually do get back to the States for a visit, we'll spend most of our time dining out to eat all of the food we have been craving for all these months!!

Anyway, here's out cute little girl playing with the basket and checking out the bill.

Apparently, she was going to take care of the bill for us!!

And finally, the last pictures I wanted to share of Juliana being a BIG girl and drinking from a cup on her own. Whenever she does these things, she is so proud of herself for being independent!

It was lovely afternoon and we had a good time getting some sun, enjoying the outdoors and then finishing up with a good meal. There are so many parks here in the city to visit, so we've decided to aim for a few each month and then we can figure out our favorites!

Lots of posts to come this week since Jacob is off all week and we have planned lots of stuff around the city and Sentosa Island to keep ourselves busy!