Wet Wet Wet
The weather wasn’t very kind to us today. As we left the hotel this morning, it started raining. I thought that I’d seen rain before - I did live in Queensland as a child - but this was spectacularly wet rain. We have decided that the Singaporeans must be waterproof. Here we were drenched to the skin, despite umbrellas, and they were just wandering about seemingly dry. The rain let up several hours later - sometime after lunch, but by then the damage had been done and my sandshoes were squelching with wetness and our clothes were sticking to us in all kinds of places. At least you don’t get cold when you are wet in Singapore.
After circling the block a couple of times in the pouring rain, we finally found Raffles Hotel. The man had a local Tiger Beer and I woosed out and had a Virgin Sling. It is really beautiful - but watch the hip pocket. The bill for those 2 drinks was nearly $35. But the atmosphere was good and we got to dry off a little.
Since it was still raining, we headed indoors to the shopping centres. We did manage to get most of our shopping done despite the traders and hawkers distracting us by physically dragging us into their shops to try and sell us something. After a while we developed a “don’t make eye contact” rule, but I felt so rude - they are only trying to make a buck.
In the evening, we headed down to Marina Bay to catch the Singapore Flyer. At 165m, it is 30m taller than the London Eye. This was one of the photos that I took from top, pretty isnt it? The views were pretty spectacular.
It appears that I am having problems uploading my photos to Flickr, so those of you who are waiting for the pics will have to wait a bit longer.
It’s getting hot and sweaty
Monday night we flew into Singapore!! Yes we are here to celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary. I had been warned about the heat and humidity, and thought that I would cope, but I didn’t (well not very well). My hairs taken on a life of it’s own, I’ve developed a heat rash and after spending almost 12 hours walking around the Singapore Zoo and night safari, I also have 4 very large blisters on my feet. But hey, it’s still all good fun!!! Hubby on the other hand is as cool and collected as ever.
Sorry that there’s no photos, but I really want to go SHOPPING so I can’t possibly find the time.
Our hotel is great. (Thanks Bonnie!). We get executive club membership - which means free buffet breakfast every day at which we eat like pigs make full use of, but we are yet to make use of the free bar in the evenings.
The credit card is getting jumpy now - so I’d better take it for a walk. See you soon.
Wet
I think we’re still officially in drought, and I know that it takes more than a couple of days of rain to break the drought, but it rained most of Saturday and now it’s raining again today - since midnight even!
It was cold yesterday and by the time I got home the clothes on the line were nearly dry. You know, that can’t quite tell if they’re wet or just cold? So I left them. The forecast for today was 25C, so I figured they get dry today and I would have them inside by lunchtime. Then it started to rain at midnight. By the time you hear it, it’s too late. So I still have wet clothes.
Its hard to photograph rain. First you need a dark background (finally found one by the fence) and then you have to get down really low. So while the perspective of this photo looks a bit weird - it’s the best I could do.
