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 :)

Its a fine, fine life.

So I think I'm alergic to London, since being back these last 3 weeks I don't think my nose has stopped running the whole time. Whereas J was excited to return to routine and the daily slog.... despite living the dream for 8ish weeks, that or he missed the money (hehe). And while the last 3 weeks have been mostly uneventful, there are some minor highlights to update you all on.

Our first weekend was spent celebrating 3 of our close friends birthday parties, Bluey, Bec and Nicole. Being back only 48 hours we started off the weekend with a few brews at Camden head in Angel, before shortly stumbling across to the walkabout on a not so wise empty stomach. We ended up widdling away the hours and making a mad dash to the last tube where a cake fight preceeded to unravel. The next night we backed up for another party and not so cheap cocktails, but some fine entertainment at strawberry moons.

Since being back we also made the most of being in London by spending a free Sunday walking through the Churchill muesum and the cabinet war rooms. This included a look at churchills life and the decisions he made throughout the second world war. It was a hit with Jarratt, not so much with Bec.

For my birthday, the celebrations kicked off on friday and continued way into saturday culminating at Shebu walkie. Friday I shopped til I dropped (my phone) and had an initimate dinner at my fave thai resturant with Jarratt and a nice bottle of wine - thanks Cazzie and A'sy. Saturday we celebrated in style with a bunch of friends, live music and one inflatable hot pink guitar - I had an awesome time! Thanks everyone!

Last night we went to Oliver! a new west end show with Rowan Atkinson playing the part of fagin. Before leavin home, we ate some "food, glorious food" and then headed to the Theatre Royal on Drury Lane. We took our seats and "considered ourselves at home", the tickets were a belated birthday treat for Jarratt as he really wanted to go and as I always tell him, "I'd do anything, for you dear, anything, for you mean everything to me."

Tomorrow we're off to Belfast and will update again soon.
Lots of love, Us.

Us at Shebu.

J and Pipes get down with their bad selves.

Ouch! Bec birthday bumps!

Snakies in style!!!!