Singapore

We only had 2 days in Singapore. Our first day in Singapore was Halloween. They do celebrate Halloween in Singapore and some places had some decorations out. The first day I took a cable car to Sentosa Island. Sentosa Island is a little tourist island basically, and they have a Universal Studios. Some friends and I decided to go to Underwater World because they had pink dolphins. We watched the Dolphin show but it was nothing compared to Sea World. The dolphins really were pink though so that was pretty cool. The rest of it was just an aquarium. Next, we went to see the Merlion because Singapore is famous for it. It’s part lion, part mermaid. I had plans to meet up with some other friends later that afternoon to go see a show so I decided to split up with the group I was with and just go shop and explore for the rest of the day. Singapore is really safe so I felt perfectly fine going by myself. Singapore also has really strict laws. It’s illegal to sell chewing gum, litter, jaywalk, and all kinds of things. Singapore is also very clean and they have great public transportation. We took the subway and it was the cleanest subway I’ve ever seen. It was so nice. Later that afternoon, I met up with my friends and we went to see a show called Voyage de la Vie. It was supposed to be like a Cirque de Soleil kind of show. It was interesting but I didn’t love it. We went to dinner after the show and then went to Raffles for Singapore Slings. The Singapore Slings were $30 Singapore dollars which is like $21 USD. They were so expensive! Singapore taxes alcohol a lot so that’s why it cost so much. I just ordered a coke thinking it couldn’t possibly cost that much and it was $9 Singapore dollars! That’s about $6.50 USD. I was mad.

The next day I went to Chinatown with a couple other people. We shopped at the markets and walked around for a while. After eating lunch I decided to try to find some Internet, since we have such limited Internet access on the ship. I didn’t do a whole lot that afternoon. I finished shopping for some postcards and then got on the Internet for a little while, before getting on the ship. Our on ship time was an hour earlier than usual and I wanted to make sure I wasn’t late. I really liked Singapore even though I didn’t do a whole lot. It was so nice and I could definitely see myself going back one day.