Singapore Day 2 - March 15th

Forgot to mention that in the Long Bar of the world famous Raffles Hotel, they put out bags of salted peanuts and people throw the shells on the floor just like in Five Guys.

The Singapore Flyer included a “Drinks Flight” option. That's a “bar car” that serves Singapore Slings. As you would expect, it cost a little more.

 Singapore Flyer

 Our flight attendant serving drinks

Joani enjoying her drink as the Flyer starts its 575 foot ascent 

Singapore Football Stadium 

 The monument on the left is the Singapore WWII Memorial, dedicated to "the Civilian Victims of the Japanese Occupation.”

The interior seven-story atrium of the Marina Sands Casino and Shopping Complex

The famous Singapore Merlion with the downtown buildings in the background

Theater for the performing arts fronting the building complex on the north side of Marina Bay (opposite from downtown). This is where the Esplanade and the Raffles Hotel are. 

The bridge over the Singapore River at the northwest end of Marina Bay

More unique buildings & condo complexes

 Metro Singapore stretches quite a ways to the north towards Malaysia

The Gardens by the Bay is a park featuring huge metal tree sculptures with embedded fiber optics for night light shows, 20 foot metal dragonfly sculptures in a lagoon, and flower and a cloud forest domes recreating those ecosystems. You could spend hours here.

Trigger Alert: Only Quilters and Sewers may find this interesting:

Joani’s $79 five pound toy sewing machine crapped out 2 days before Singapore. The Intrepid Engineer said, “You can buy anything in Singapore;” and found a Singapore quilting blog that linked to a fabric store / authorized Bernina dealer near a Metro stop. The cheapest new Bernina was $1300, too much. Joani just needed something that will work for 3 1/2 more months. Oh, we have a used mechanical vintage Bernina (no electronics & no computer), only $300. Deal? Deal!!! It weighs at least 30 lbs. but does every stitch known to man using high quality steel cams and gears. It will basically never break down or wear out. Bob has been working out in the ship gym and was able to lug it back to the cruise terminal. The quilter is happy. J

Next stop Ko Samui, a Thai island. Bob will SCUBA and Joani will snorkel. Then on to Bangkok!