Lovely Singapore

Well, let me first just say that Singapore is an amazing city!  I've never really been anywhere like this before.  It is so unbelievably clean and orderly!  After it rains, as soon as it stops, there are guys out drying the sidewalks!  There are guys removing the fallen leaves from the river!  There is no garbage on the street...it's amazing.  And there are all these signs around funny things like no taking Durians onto the subway!  And the food...out of this world!  It is so nice to eat such amazing food every day!  We have been used to eating peanut butter and jam in Aus/NZ when we were trying to save money but we've been eating at the hawker food centres here and supper is about $3 a plate.  So much variety and everything is spicy and tastes amazing!  All these crazy and amazing green leafy veggies, amazing chili, I even had chicken satay which was out of this world!

We tried kaya toast for breakfast which apparently Singaporeans love - its' this crispy toast with honey and butter, served with strong, sweet coffee...again, amazing.  And the desserts are crazy!  A bowl of jelly pieces, beans, corn, then shaved ice like a snow cone with fruit, syrup, sometimes coconut milk and ice cream on top.  Sounds weird but it's quite tasty.  After lunch today I had this barley type sweet porridge stuff with coconut milk....amazing.

Well, I guess that's enough about the food.  We have done things other than eat here :>)  Yesterday we walked around the city center and then we went to the Singapore Art Museum.  Lucky for us they are doing some renovations on it so some of it is closed and therefore the admission was free.  We sat by the harbour at night and enjoyed the city lights as the sun went down.  Today we explored Chinatown and a few temples in that area.  Dan also had a little mishap with his glasses when we were in the Grampians in Australia (he sat on them) and then we lost the little screws and I was temporarily able to repair them with tiny rolled up pieces of paper but it was pretty makeshift so we got him some contact lenses today.  He got a whole eye exam and everything!  So far he seems pretty happy with them!

We are off to Melaka city in Malaysia tomorrow.  We had planned to go to Mersing and then take a boat to Tioman Island but we couldn't find a bus that went there during the airport fiasco.  So we'll check out the city and go from there.

We are pretty zonked from all the walking and are off to bed (with full bellies of course...)

Hanna and Dan

 Great hawker food centre called Glutton's Bay