A Snap Shot Of Our Day

Whew, what a day, it is a national holiday in Singapre so Scott and I were on our own today as the relocation company had the day off.  We decided we were going to go out and do some exploring so we walked from our hotel to China Town

In China Town we got on the MRT, Mass Rapid Transit and took it over to Jurong, this is where Scott's office is and we will be using public transit quite a bit while we are here so we figured we better know how to do it.  We found the MRT to be very easy to use and very efficent and clean.

We went to a pharmacy and a grocery store, well actually it was a few pharmacies and a "Giant" the Singapore version of a Super Wal Mart.  We were able to find lots of items that we would use while living here and also learned a few things.  For one we will be bringing all vitamins with us when we come, check out the price of this Vitamin C and tooth brushes are crazy expensive.  We were surprised to find gum!!  And it is Orbit, we like Orbit, it was at a pharmacy so we asked if this was legal, they said yes but do not put it on the ground, of all the places we have been this is the only place we have seen gum, Menthos seems to be a popular brand of mints over here.

After the pharmacy we went into the Giant and realized that we were going to be enjoying alot of fresh Salmon, it is only $2.00 a pound, as well as fresh shrimp for 75 cents a pound and blue crab for about $4.00 a pound, these prices I am giving you are the converted U.S dollar prices.  The store was loaded with fresh fish of all kinds to pick from so I guess I need to learn to cook this stuff as it is healthy and super cheap.

By this time we were hungry so we stoped at a place and got some Chicken Satay and I had some spicy pumpkin soup, it was delicious..

After lunch we took a cab and went to the Jurong Bird Park, we think the cabbie ripped us off, but that is a whole nother story, the bird park was great but the birds were not too active as it was a light rain outside.  The bird park has the largest man made water fall in Asia so we hiked to that and we realized we may be coming to this park often just to escape the noise and business of the city.  Today was a holiday so they were busy but during the week it should be quiet.  The stain glass window is on the roof when you walk in, I immediately thought of my Mom and the beautiful stain glass she does.