Day 1 – Getting to Singapore

Our flight left at 12:05am on Thursday to the 21^st, so we were in for a long ride. Not much sleep was had at all, so arriving in Singapore at 5:30am was pretty draining, especially with the humidity. We collected our bags easily enough and caught a taxi straight to our hotel, the Strand Hotel. It is a nice little room. We checked in at about 6:30 and by 7am we were out walking around. Then we spent an hour and a half searching around our hotel before finally getting some McDonalds as it was the best thing around! After this Ash and I returned to the hotel and actually slept for around 3 hours, we were exhausted. It did not help that there is heavy construction going on outside our room so it was noisy. Waking up at 12:30, we headed out for lunch.

We walked down Orchard Road past many, many shops and found the shopping centre ‘Ion’ which went 4 levels below ground and a few levels above. We found a food court and ate some lunch. Next we explored the centre and it was huge, but shopping doesn’t interest us much so we continued back down orchard road and back to the hotel to rest, I am quite tired so a rest was great, just using the internet and watching the TV.

After relaxing we headed back out to a nearby shopping mall and got some dinner, and by the time we had searched around and finished it was about 7:30, so we headed back to the hotel and showered and went to bed at around 8:30, so tired! In all an exhausting day but good to see Singapore, and looking forward to doing more tomorrow on a good nights sleep.