Marina Bay

This is the area where we sat with our yummy and very sugar laden Bubble Teas. It was so nice to be outside and it not be unbearable in the heat! The fireworks were great, and set to music, and after the smoke from them cleared, you could see right across the bay.

Singapore is a relatively newer country, and has such beautiful architecture - even the Opera House looks like a durian and I loved it! After stopping to take some photos of all the skyscrapers, we headed over towards the gardens by the bay which were back at the Botanical Gardens!

The Helix bridge

We stopped and got some amazing food at the market, and listened to some live music, before heading over towards the science museum to ensure we had a good position to watch the fireworks. Linking one side of the harbour and the other is this incredibly cool

bridge which looks like a giant helix. I loved it! It was sadly closed, because of some of the military parades going on, but I was allowed up to take some really awesome photos right from the end. We ended up taking another foot path over to the other side so we could get some famous Bubble Tea! We had great seats from over the marina and watched the great fireworks set to music! It was so lovely!

Flying by Downtown

After visiting the Art Museum, we went down to the harbour, so we could see some more of the town. As we were crossing the park, we saw a bunch of military helicopters pulling a flag. When I asked Eileen about it, she explained that National Day was coming up and there were lots of practices and preperations for it. There are shows and parades, and most importantly, fireworks all in the days running up to it!

At the S. A. M

Sarah really likes art, so Eileen took us to a really cool modern art museum nearby. It was called the Singapore Art Museum, and had a giant, inflatable rabbit outside....it was a great opening to a really cool museum, which was currently showing an exhibit about Islam in the media, and people's interpretation of Islam due to the media...it was really, really interesting. And Shelby would just have LOVED it.

High Tea at Raffles

One of THE things to do in Singapore is to have High Tea. And since the Singaporeans really care about food, its really, really popular. But THE place to do it is a Raffles, which is downtown. We were quite lucky to get in to have afternoon tea there, so after we went to the

Botanical gardens, we were able to get back in time for our reservation at Raffles. Our table was lovely, and the room was so nice and airy. There was a lovely buffet with lots of choice, especially all the dim sum which we loved! We also got to have al the clotted cream and scones we wanted!

We were joined by my friend Eileen, who actually I met while at Bristol, a very, very long time ago. We both were on the Bristol University business/development team and got to go to London together! She moved back home, to Singapore and we were so fortunate that she could join us, and then show us ALLLLLLLLL around Singapore!

The Botanical Gardens

We were lucky enough to miss the majority of the rain, quite randomly by stopping and taking some photos inside of the train station. It was a lovely walk to the Botanical Gardens, which were only recently built. We had a great time both inside and outside of the dome taking photos of the great flowers and the cute statues like this elephant!

Mirror, Mirror

The next morning, we got up, caught some breakfast and headed out to explore Singapore. Sadly, the rain was really bad, and we weren't quite sure what to do, as we figured a lot of the things to do were outside. Eventually, we settled on heading to the Botanical Gardens.

At the train station there, they have some amazing giant photos in bright colours and amazingly large mirrors, all the way down the corridor. We couldn't help but take photos there, and we spent a good long time there! We saw lots of people doing similar to us, but it was quite a smart plan as it turned out, as we were able to miss most of the rain!