We were at Ocean Park today. This is another theme park in the city, but unlike Disneyland this is a sort of zoo/aquarium/thrill-rides combo. DW had arranged a particularly special start to the day for the three girls – they got to be apprentice panda keepers for the morning. It meant another early start for them, and another more leisurely start to the day for The Boy and me. As part of their duties, they had to muck out the panda sleeping enclosure. Rather them than me! They really loved it though – especially getting to feed the pandas their breakfast.

Myself and The Boy joined them later in the morning. We spent the rest of the day on the various rides and looking at some of the animal and fish displays. It’s now confirmed that The Boy is a complete thrill merchant. He absolutely loved the one proper rollercoaster he was allowed to go on, and anything else that involved adrenalin.

Himself and Eldest Girl also managed to win themselves a cuddly toy each on one of the stalls. They are absolutely positively not getting to bring these on the rest of this journey!

Tomorrow, we travel to Tokyo.

Wake up lazy bear!