Monday, January 31, 2011

Singapore Sling

After making a quick decision to move our flight from night to morning on the 7th we arrived in Singapore at around 3pm - having happily scored Jarratt an extra 2 usable hours for his 30th birthday. After a revealing shower and change of clothes, but nothing too sexy, we strolled down to Raffles Ball and Billard room for a slightly overpriced Singapore Sling. Having leisurely downed the wonderful concoction we piled into a taxi and headed to Singapore's Night Safari. After a game of silly buggers in the souvenir shop we indulged in a dinner of duck and rice with a side of vegetables and men drumming in their speedos. Then it was all aboard the Night Safari Tram.... despite forgetting the tripod at our 4 star hotel, we managed to snap some pretty photos of both the lions, and tigers, and bears (oh my!) That night we fell into bed in agreement that Jarratts 30th had been a memorable one :)

Day 2 saw us roll down to the esplanade to check out the stunning performance centre and the iconic Singapore flyer. Afterwards we had an extended pit stop at Merlion park where we swallowed a lot of water. We then explored the MRT network and arrived at Orchard Road for a spot of shopping before an amazing lunch of soft shell crab, chicken fried rice and crispy dango. Ater lunch we began the hunt for the highly anticipated fish massage in Chinatown. Unfortunately, we were unsuccessful - despite being offered a massage by many questionable ladies in doorways. Instead we wandered the markets and enjoyed the atmosphere filled with many goods and dragons in preparation for Chinese New Year. From there we spent a lazy hour frolicking in the pool and followed it up with a chili crab stylish, romantic dinner in Boat Quay. That night we had a tripod sponsored photo shoot on the top floor of our hotel. Beat by the heat, we fell happily into our air conditioner room - well prepared for our 73oam flight to Delhi!

Bec at Raffles front entrance.

Slingtastic!

ROAR!

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

A little arty with my new camera!

Attempt Number 7 without tripod turned out pretty good.

There's something in the water...

Bec + Purchases :)

Pool fun!

Love.... sweet.... love :)

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