Friday, January 18, 2008

Alfie's first picnic

I said I loved holidays and hated the government's take on them. This one's about the love part. It's even more special, because Alfie is involved.

We wanted to enjoy at least one of those many forced dayoffs. We had been quite concerned that the concept of animal Alfie had in mind seemed to be all about Barney the dinosaur and ants.

So we took him to Taman Safari. It turned out, he was amazed by elephants and giraffes and -- to my disappointment -- was less interested in tigers. (How could someone not love tigers?). Oh, there was one more thing he loved: frog. But that one he saw was a stuffed frog at the souvenirs store.

And here is the unintended consequence of the safari: Alfie now refuses to sit the back seat!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I don't know if it's a good idea to introduce Alfie to YouTube (our 4 years old watches YouTube everyday so now he's well-informed about the life on earth 400 million years ago), but here's a really cool video about ants:

Aco said...

Thanks, Rob! It's cool. I don't mind Alfie hooked up into YouTube. It's only that internet connection here is so damn slow :-(

Anonymous said...

Just to clarify, Alfie knows quite a number of animals, such as lizard, butterfly, bird, cat, dog, chicken, cow, duck, fly, and mosquito. The hardest thing for him now is to differentiate duck and goose :)

Aco said...

oops. mom knows best...

Dio said...

nice shot! btw, keiko and aglaya enjoy watchin' enno lerian's song (du di dam, nyamuk, dakocan) in You Tube...