One of the things about having a child is that you discover all sorts of interesting places that you would never have known about if you didn’t have a child.  Okay, okay - places I would never have known about if I didn’t have Gavin because I wouldn’t have bothered heading out in that area to check it out.

For instance, a couple of weeks back (before he started getting fussy in the carseat), I decided to take Gavin to the park at KLCC.  I figured it was a good place to go because we could always hop back into the cool, air-conditioned corridors of the mall if it got too hot, at the same time giving Gavin a chance to spend some time outdoors.  I remembered the playground because I walked past it a few years back when I was walking to the 2003 Asian X-Games.

The playground is even bigger than I remembered, with lots of play area for Gavin to run around in.  I wanted to take an aerial shot of the playground just to show how extensive the place was but unfortunately, you can’t see it from the shopping mall and there was no vantage point high enough to get a good photo.

Gavin had a blast crawling through the tunnels and exploring the playground.

Okay, I knew about the park and the playground, but what I didn’t know about was the wading pool for kids:

Still not sure if I would take Gavin to play there to swim, but it looks pretty nice, don’t you think?

KLCC seems to be rivalling Midvalley as the shopping mall to take a child.  While Midvalley still has the upperhand in terms of shop availability (which is probably more important to the adult rather than the child), it can’t compete with the fact that KLCC has an outdoor park and wading pool within walking distance.

Even if you don’t want to go to the park, KLCC also has a Toys ‘R’ Us (albeit, a much smaller one) on the Concourse area where Times Book Shop used to be.  If you get bored of Toys ‘R’ Us, there’s always the toy department of Isetan which now offers a Lego play area.  In fact, MegaBloks took a leaf out of Lego’s book and started their own MegaBloks play area in what was formerly the nursing room:

Recently, I noticed that Thomas and Friends had also set up a train set in the play area.  I guess the marketing department have realised that children who get to play with the toys tend to pester their parents to buy it so they can play at home, too.

Besides Isetan, there’s Parkson’s toy department which also contains a Lego play area and a VTech video game console.  Finally, there is Toy City near the Sony end of the mall.  By the time you get through all that, your toddler will be more than ready to go home for a nap.

So yeah, KLCC shopping mall has just become my new favourite place to take Gavin shopping…

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