After a New Year's celebration at Holly and Jeff's with a few other couples, Sarah and Ben arrived in Singapore on Friday morning, at 5:45 am. Via Amsterdam. Via Frankfurt. Via Boston.
They have been super sports - jet lag, heat, and usual vegetarianism being challenges. We have run around Singapore eating and seeing as much as we possibly could in the last three days. We hit Little India, Chinatown, temples, Matt's building and the CBD, East Coast Park, market, Clarke Quay, Merlion, Asian Civilisations Museum, Raffles Hotel, mall, National Library (with a cool map exhibit), the Night Safari (!), Orchard Rd, Sim Lim (6 floors of technology), more temples, Bugis, Arab St, dry market, flea market, and Little India again. We're tired.
We ate leftover Thai food, South Indian thali lunch, laksa, fishball noodles, popiah, carrot cake, Tiger, chicken rice, ice and mango, ice and sourop, chee cheong fun, roti prata, coffees, dim sum, malay food, bagels, fruit, mee goreng, grass jelly, soya dessert, lots of Indian food.
It's been a busy and super fun three days.
Highlights include when Ben ordered a sweet iced coffee. Then he got three hot not-so-sweet coffees. Oops.
Night safari was interesting. I don't need to go back, but it was interesting to go. It's expensive, though. We did see cool animals, and somehow, the way that it's set up, it feels like the animals aren't in such closed quarters as a zoo. I know they ARE, but it doesn't feel like that for some reason. We liked the flying squirrel - it just flew over our heads - and the bats. Particularly one that was...well...that's private.
They're off to Thailand, and we're off to work and recover from being tourists in our city.
Another important piece - they brought us a Settlers card game (which makes Matt in trouble, since you can play with TWO people!! YES!), and Bananagrams - which I knew because Jeremy and Terese play it, and I am slightly obsessed. I might have to play this one on my own. Super super fun. Yay for games! Yay for friends visiting!!
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