Singapore

We spent a long weekend in Singapore in November.  Had a great time!  It's clean with lots of shopping, good food and photo opportunities everywhere I turned!  We even found a church to go to on Sunday morning!  What more could we ask for?  

View of the Singapore financial district from our hotel room.  

I blew the next two photos, but I thought I would post them anyway.  Below is a picture of the rooftop pool at our hotel.  Beautiful view, but a little too cold for this southern girl to get in!   

Another view of the rooftop pool for all of my friends who are afraid of heights.  Just a little intimidating! 

We must have a sign on our backs that says, "We are suckers and don't ask the price up front." We took a bicycle rickshaw a distance of about 1.5 miles.  Most expensive taxi we've ever taken! Notice us smiling in this picture.  It was taken right before he told us how much we owed.  Oh well, you only live once.  Cross this off the bucket list. 

Everyone told us we had to try the chili crab while we were in Singapore.  Kind of like how you must have BBQ when you go to Memphis or cream pie when you go to Boston. (HA! Just kidding. Checking to see if you're still reading or not.)  Chili crab is on the left and black pepper crab is on the right.  That is a single crab on each plate!  The chili crab was wonderful, but both of us liked the black pepper crab better. 

I knew it was going to be good when they gave me an apron! They gave us utensils to eat the crab with but using our hands was much more productive! It was messy, but oh so delicious!

One of the landmark hotels in Singapore.  The Fullerton Hotel sits on the river within walking distance to a lot of restaurants and attractions.  We didn't stay here.  I just thought it was pretty all lit up at night.

Singapore is home to largest ferris wheel in the world.  The Singapore Flyer is 42 stories tall (541').  It takes 30 minutes for it to make one full rotation. I thought about going up…..for about 5 seconds. Then, my fear of heights won out.

While we were there, I practiced taking long exposure photos.  This is the Clarke Quay area of Singapore.  Lots of restaurants and things to do here.  The lights in the center of the river is a bumboat.  

Singapore skyline in the background.  Notice the big smiles.  This was after a great steak dinner at Morton's!

I took this photo of the Singapore financial district skyline and had it mounted on canvas and framed to give to Weston for Christmas.

We had a great visit to Singapore.  There are so many things to do.  There was no way to do it all in our short time there.  I guess another trip is in order!