Brunei Roses: Pool, Rides and Zoo!!!

When our grandma was living in Wakayama we didn't need to think about where to go during our summer holidays. We always stayed at her place and played in the river or at the beach or enjoyed forest walks. Now that she no longer lives there we had to think of what to do. It is very rare to have everyone off together in Japan, we normally make an effort to do something together as a family.
Even Matthew managed to join us using his days off for the month :)

Our first plan was to go to the beach by grandma's old place even though she is no longer living there but the typhoon was approaching and the sea got rougher so we had to give up on that idea.

Instead we took all the kids to our local amusement park - Misaki Park. This park is quite old, when we were kids our parents took us there every now and then. Even though it is not as popular as it used to be it is still going strong attracting wee ones like ours.

Rui (12), Hinata (11), and Oliver (3):

Runa (11) and Yuzuki (6):

Oliver was so so so excited!!

Unfortunately it was a cloudy day with some wind but that didn't stop the kids jumping into the pool. The bigger kids took off to queue up for the big slides and little ones stayed near a paddle pool.

Oliver was very impressed with a similar setting to the one in the Singapore zoo.

As you can easily guess it took forever to get him out of the water...

It got too cold for everyone when the wind got stronger, so we all got changed and moved to the rides.

Oliver didn't really know what he was into but he insisted to go on the big boys ride.
Matthew told me he was giggling all the way, making lots of happy noise!

He also enjoyed the little boys ride too :)

By this time our boys were getting very tired but I couldn't miss the dolphin show I used to love when I was a kid. The waiting was rather long and boys were getting scratchy :( Luckily once the dolphins started to jump around and splash people with their big fins the boys didn't have a chance to fall asleep.