I have been seeing a lot of reviews on this and ever since we walked past it last year, I was sucked into its beauty sort of wanted to go. Finally, I decided to just take a day off and jio-ed my Mum along with my son. There was a promo going on and it only cost us $15 to pop by for a visit for us 3.
A lot of things happened at home lately, which led me to this thought to create more memories for my kid with his grandparents so that one day he can look back and remember those days. The same for us too. I want to look back without regrets and stop being stingy with my off days.
My son is a true flower lover. But somehow with his grandma, he was more excitable than usual. It was really hard taking nice shots of him that day. Most of the time, he was bouncing around, making sure I was not sitting / skiving and gently carassing the variety of flowers. T_T He even had a hearty poop and needed a change at the diaper room.
There is also a water feature within the exhibit (which is not huge by the way) and my son was absolutely obsessed with it. He spent a good deal of his time (believe it or not we spent nearly 2 hours in the nice air-conditioned space) staring at the flow of the waters.
I managed to get some good shots myself (with occasional photobombs not that I am complaining) mainly through selfies and my Mum. Now I understand why family pay for their helper to join, so that they can get proper family photos. Maybe it is high time I invest in a tripod, just that I don't have a professional camera and is too impatient to use one.
Overall, I really love our day out. My Mum and I had somewhat proper bonding time and 1 photo together. By the way, you can take off your mask for photography which we didn't know initially so we were totally masked up. And we all had fun together, the 3 of us. We had high tea before that too so it was like half-day of chillaxing.
The only grouse was that my son refused to take his afternoon nap. He probably didn't want to miss out any fun. And by the end of the day, my Mum and I were desperate for my husband to take over. I needed a break/ seat cos my son refused to let me sit down. He also wanted my Mum to carry him most of the time, instead of sitting in a stroller. So we were quite physically drained.
We tried taking a stroll around GBTB to knock him out, but no luck. I actually enjoyed the stroll because the garden is really quite beautiful and the weather wasn't as bad. I am decked in one of my fav nursing pieces by the way from Mothers en Vogue. It is very versatile and you can wear it even after pregnancy. <3