Saturday

First day here. I must say it was absolutley wonderful to sleep in a fully horizontal position! I did sleep some on the plane ride from Tokyo-that helped, too.

Started off this morning with Kaya Toast--a coconut (green or yellow in color-we had green) jam with butter on toast and Mee Siem--spicy noodles with a hardboiled egg in a chili (like hot pepper chili) broth. Nothing like hot and spicy food on a hot and humid day first thing in the morning with coffee!
Actually, weather-wise it isn't too bad. High of 88/ low 80 humidity around 75%--which is pretty reasonable around here. Still, it feels like even in AC that you always have a layer of sweat clinging to you. I have decided Singaporean people have no pores, because I have yet to see anyone here even look shiny! Me on the other hand...I am as shiny as a recently oiled body builder. Pretty.

Scott lent me one of his (many) cell phones so I can text/call Scott and Steve anytime and bother them while they work. Yippee!

Tonight we are going to Chjimes--a converted convent/church that is now a restaurant complex. We are going to Lei Garden, an authentic Cantonese (Chinese) restaurant. Then we will head back to our hotel which overlooks the marina and the south China Sea so we can watch the fireworks from our hotel room balcony.

The pictures are of our current view from our balcony as of 4:45 pm. The big bug eyed looking thing is the Esplanade--the Singapore Arts and Cultural Centre. It is supposed to look the durian--a fruit that is well known around here--and banned on the bus/transportation systems due to it's awful smell. (It is suppose to taste good, but smell awful. I have yet to try it. Last time I was here I tried dorian ice cream, but never got past the smell to taste much of it.) The greens below are the cricket fields. We watched them playing a match this morning before we left for breakfast. The white phallic thing is a war memorial for all those who died WWII.