Sentosa Island

We have been in Singapore for just two weeks today, it really seems like it has been much longer as we have been working hard to set up house and learn our new city.  Today we decided it was time to play, so off to Sentosa Island we went.

We drove the car to Vivo City mall where you get on the tram to go over to the Island, amazingly we parked in exactly the right spot in the car park.

 Sentosa is known as Singapore's play ground  and I must say it is very beautiful on the island with many flowers and palm trees and groomed beaches.

Scott and the boys decided to do the luge ride, you take a cable car up and ride a luge down so I sat on the beach and waited taking in the sun and warm breeze as I would just apply the break all the way down the hill anyway.

We went to lunch at a beach side restaurant and enjoyed some great food and ice cold water, it started raining while we were at lunch so we were in no hurry to leave the restaurant.

all was good until we went to pay the bill and the waiter informed us that their machine would not take our credit card, so we gave them the other card which the machine also rejected.  Uh Oh we know we have no balance on the cards so what is up with this?  We of course did not have enough cash on us to pay the bill as we had not yet gone to the ATM machine for the week.  After a while the waiter came back and told us that the problem is their machine and not our cards as it also was not taking another customers card.  So we waited and finally they got the machine up and running allowing us to enjoy the rest of the island.

There was a little foot bridge over to some towers that you can climb so we decided to go across the bridge and climb the tower, it was an amazing view from the top of the ship harbor and some nice foliage.

and we found that we were at an interesting geographical point of the world

We were getting tired and we have learned not to push ourselves too hard so we decided that we were done for the day and that we would come again to see the rest of the Island so we only saw the Merlion from a distance, but here is a picture for you.  We will explore the Merlion another day.

After we came back home we decided that we would take a bus into Holland Village and grab some dinner at a Hawker center, and top up our MRT cards.  So we walked to the bus stop and jumped on a bus which one stop later....... STOPPED  that was it.... everyone off the bus, this one for whatever reason is no longer running.  I just love the go there app, I was able to instantly know which other bus to take for our family and it was coming down the road so onto that bus we went and made it to our destination.

 Dinner was good and all in all it was a fun day of rest and play.