Clark Quay

We took the boys down to Clark Quay today, it is a strip along the river in Singapore that really gets hopping at night but we went late afternoon so it was not too bad as far as crowds go.

 Of course we had to get some ice cream sandwiches while we were there.  They put the ice cream on a piece of bread, fold it in half and wallah, an ice cream sandwich.  We actually had "normal" flavors, chocolate, mint chip, raspberry swirl, and mango.

It was a nice day so we decided to walk along the river down to the Merlion, there is a series of statues along the way depicting Singapore's history one of which is these naked kids pushing each other into the river

And here is the Merlion the symbol of Singapore. Here is an excerpt from an article about the Merlion:

The Merlion (Malay: Singa-Laut) is an imaginary creature with the head of a lion and the body of a fish, used as a mascot of Singapore. Its name combines "mer" meaning the sea and "lion". The fish body comes from Singapore's ancient name back when it was a fishing village — Temasek — meaning "sea town" in Javanese. The lion head represents Singapore's original name — Singapura — meaning "lion city" or "kota singa".

This one is just a baby Merlion so you can take pictures next to it, below is the bigger Merlion.

This one is the small one, the really big Merlion is on Sentosa Island.

We have seen many street sweepers while we have been here and finally today I was able to capture one in a picture.

These brooms do not look like they would be effective but they do a pretty good job at cleaning the streets.  I think we need to find one to sweep our deck.

We walked for about 2 hours so afterwards we were pretty hot, it was fun to stop at a fountain and play for a bit.

Our plan was to eat dinner at Brewerkz but then we realized it would cost over S$100.00 for our family to eat burgers and fries if we drank water so we opted for Burger King and all ate with a drink for S$21.00, that is a much better deal for the budget!