#208 - 10 km, or thereabouts

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On our way there - Oisin, she is wearing her freaking forest outfit.
I am telling you we are going to a forest
It started innocuously enough.

Well, Swim or MYSTERY TOUR????

Mom. We will take mystery tour. (Said Oisin.)

Damn it Oisin. Mystery tour means she is going to take us to a freakin jungle.

And so I did. To the freakin jungle we went.

The tens of kilometres which NParks has built in the jungle
Admiring the view at the tree top walk
I am happy to report that I am finally losing weight
I know this because I am finally not dreading putting on my clothes
Oisin, striking a pose
Catwalk on the top of the forest
On our way there - Oisin, she is wearing her freaking forest outfit.
I am telling you we are going to a forest
Baby and mommy - different but same
Dragonflies
In the wild
Scaly breasted munia - our equivalent of tits
That is just adorable
Rainforest as far as the eye can see
That butt don't look so bad anymore
You looking at me?
Great railing Ghin
Arty shot of my glasses while I tried to get my lenses in
By the water's edge
Here's looking at you kid
Hazy days of summer
Contact lens issues
Great memories of those huts...
National flower - bougainvilla
View from the water jetty, according to Oisin - called The Bandstand by everyone else
Teutonic mega structures
Nice not quite sure where this is
'Water Jetty'

I have never walked so much in Singapore. This will be my fifth encounter of the green kind. The boys were fantastic. They did the entire walk, including the tree top walk and never said a word. Not a murmur. We set off from the main area in MacRitchie, and they were enchanted by the monitor lizards and the monkeys and by the time we reached the turning point they were sold on the tree top walk. We even climbed Jelutong Tower. By the time the walk ended I was ready to go home. Which has never happened before - to be fair to me it had been almost four hours. Usually I'm the one who wants to keep on going. Along the way we discussed, the 4th dimension, fatalism, education, ethics and everything else in between. My sons. What a walk. What a conversation. What a day. Time for BED!!!!

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