Sorry we missed you guys on Sunday evening/Sunday morning, Internet was a bit too expensive at the hotel, and connectivity was average at best. Anyway, Sunday morning found us (following Chris's rather harrowing pre dawn run...see http://www.afloridianrunnerinpenang.blogspot.com/ for details) headed out to the Singapore Zoo, via subway and bus, which had become such a convenient and inexpensive way to travel. The trip to the zoo took about 45 min though, it would have been a bit shorter by cab, but not much. I can say this for the Singapore Zoo, it is Awesome!! As zoos go, it was clean, well maintained, the animals looked healthy,they had some amazing exhibits and the animals are so close you can almost touch them (sometimes!).
We got some great shots throughout the day, and they had so many exhibits and the animals were all very active, the Proboscis Monkeys above had beat up and chased the guy into the water , damn he looks guilty. Brenna got to pet the small deer above, also. This Lemur, was right above us in a tree, and three of his troop continued to
bounce around in the trees above and next to us. it was very cool, I love Lemurs!!
We continued to wander around the zoo until well into the afternoon, we saw Asian elephants, and huge Komodo Dragons, we got to see great big Flying Foxes, and stood for a long time watching a large group of Orang-utans get free reign over the tree tops throughout the zoo, there were times when they would be in the trees right above you. That is what amazed me about this zoo, it seemed as though the philosophy was that you are coming into their habitat, not that their habitat has been created for you. It was really an incredible experience. We had such a great time!! I will post a few more pictures that we took..
Our day ended with a trip to the gift shop, which is always Brenna's favorite part of any trip!! We picked up some nice souvenirs and then headed to the stop to catch our bus. We then picked up our train.
It was a really great day today, we had a blast!! We came home exhausted and then went and met a colleague of Roxanne's who lives in Singapore, He invited us to a small pub, and we got to meet his wife and daughter who was adorable, she and Brenna hit it off, Brenna got to play big sister, she things she is an awesome big sister!!
Oh and the really cool thing is that this was parked out in front of the Hotel...for a Hilton it does get the "bling" !
Great day in Singapore!! Goodnight all!!
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