Saturday 30/04: Well the morning began, less than stellar, no chance at a run today as I did not pack for Rain and it was pouring this morning, so Sunday will work just as well for a 6 mile jaunt. We went to breakfast and then headed out via Taxi to Sentosa, a small island off of mainland Singapore. It was still raining rather hard when we left the hotel, as we approached Sentosa however it stopped, and although it was overcast, it was rather nice. We started our adventure at the aforementioned "Underwater World". this place was great, in fact the whole Island of Sentosa was theme park like in its presentation.
We had a great time at "Underwater World" their touch tank included Archer fish, Puffer fish, some small rays, and starfish, it was very cool. We saw some big turtles, and got to see quite a few things that we would never see in one of our aquarium based parks, including some "Japanese Spider Crabs" that were HUGE!!. We also got a chance to see the "Pink Dolphin" perform in a show that was remedial in comparison to anything at "Sea World" but was still impressive for a small park that is relatively new.
We moved on by bus to the "Butterfly and Insect" park, which was right up Roxanne and Brenna's alley! We got to see some butterfly species that we would never get to see in the states, and then Brenna got to feed some Conures, she was eventually overwhelmed by birds and gave up the food to daddy. (we have some great shots, but will post them after we get home on Monday, we don't have that much space on Rox's computer for the shots from her camera, so if you are following the blog, check back on this post on Tuesday, and we will have some additional shots on there)
We moved down to Merlion walk, where a huge replica of the Merlion that is a fixture in Singapore is. We had a great time walking around there and shot some pretty god pictures, again they have really done a great job with this whole island of /Sentosa.
We decided to take the cable car back to the mainland. It offered some great views of the city of Singapore, Brenna was a little
nervous, being up that high.
We walked around the waterfront/harbor area, and got to see some really great sites, Raffles Hotel, The Marina Sands Hotel and casino, which looks like it has a huge ship parked on top of it. It is really just astounding to me that I am standing on the waterfront in Singapore...We are really blessed to have this opportunity.
We continued to wander a bit, and then took the subway, back to the hotel. the subway system here in Singapore is just as good as in any US city, very clean, very easy to navigate and fairly inexpensive to ride. So we crashed early, it was along day. i am going to try and post a video of the downtown of Singapore to Facebook for any of the facebookers following. cant seem to get that stuff up on here, but i will try!! Tomorrow it is the Singapore Zoo, which is supposed to be one of the top zoos on the planet...cant wait!! come on along with us!! Until tomorrow, goodnight all!!
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