Monday in Singapore

Hit breakfast right at 6:30. There were two boys around the age of 9 messing around. One wanted to just sit on a rock but the other kept bugging him. The one hit the other, then another punch, then the other one punched the other. They both were mad and walking inside to where their parents were when one boy grabbed the other boys arms from behind then punched him in the back. He yelled 'there, now we are even". But later in the day when we were talking about the boys again Cameron said 'It was funny when he said 'now we eat' and they went inside". Todd and I both started laughing and told Cameron he said 'now we are even'. Cameron said "Ah, that makes more sense. I thought it was weird that they were going to eat after that". We think Cameron needs his hearing checked.

We got in a cab at 7:45 to head to the zoo. We bought our tickets to get in and took off walking. It was an awesome zoo. The animals are in big, open, natural pens. In a lot of places we were trying to figure out if the animals could get out if they really wanted. Obviously, there were a few animals behind glass but their enclosures were still big and nice. Such a cool zoo. We walked around for hours checking everything out. We rode the tram a few times and took the boat ride twice. We mainly took the boat ride to get a little bit of a breeze.  While on the boat Cameron said he wasn't feeling very well.  Then he jumped up like he was going to get sick over the side.  Todd turned around to look at him and all of a sudden Cameron said "April Fools" and then sat back down with a big smile.

Checking out the zoo map.

We are in the zoo.

His head is not in the rhino's booty.

Love where these animals live.

That is an ugly mole rat.

Oh gross.

Taking a tram ride.

Riding around taking in the sites at the zoo.

Cameron wanted to sit in the splash zone.

Cute seal show.

Cameron wanted to go in the big splash zone.

He definitely got wet.

These carvings were funny.

This poor guys booty was gross looking.

Taking in the boat ride.

Nice, pleasant ride.

The coolest thing at the zoo was the Fragile Forest. This was an enclosed walk through place. It was creeping me out because there were bats flying around, Lemurs walking around, butterflies everywhere, etc. I was sure something was going to land on me or get me. Nothing did though. The first time we went in we all thought it was cool. We were standing right next to the lemurs grooming each other. All of a sudden Todd made a loud sound and at the same time Cameron started making noise. I looked over at them and they were cracking up. I noticed Todd had something all over his arm. A duck on a branch above us pooped all over Todd's arm and some on Cameron's shoe. It was hilarious. We finished walking around in there.

The lemurs were so cute.

The bats were not so cute and they were huge.

Todd just got pooped on by a duck.

We went back to the Fragile Forest a couple hours later and it was even more cool that time. The crazy bats were flying all over. We were up close to bats eating fruit and a sloth eating a piece of corn on the cob. Then a bat came flying in towards Todd...which made him jump like a crazy man...and landed next to the sloth. He tried stealing his corn. It was cool but bats are not cute to look at.

This was neat and creepy at the same time.

This sloth was cool.

This was the bat that swooped in and scared Todd.

We managed to walk through the snake house which is my least favorite place and then grabbed some ice cream for Cameron.  We then left the zoo and took a cab to China Town. We went to Maxwell Road Food Street. We found a table and Todd and Cameron went exploring for food...after we made a lap through to look at the 75 or so booths to see what was offered. They came back with a steak for me from a BBQ joint. Then they brought back chicken rice and fish porridge for them. Oh, and oyster cakes. Way better than I had expected. Todd loves eating in these sort of places. Another stop where Anthony Bourdaine has been.

Have I mentioned I hate snakes?

Ben and Jerry's treat.  Yum.

Maxwell Street Food Center.

The plate they served my food on was awesome.

Cameron's chicken and rice.

Todd's Fish porridge.

We then checked out all the Chinese goods that were for sale because everyone knows we can't get those in China. It was interesting though. We found a restaurant to hang out in while a storm came in but it never did rain. We then walked through a couple of mall type things before finding a store called Bee Cheng Hiang. We watched a guy make what looked like beef jerky. We had to see what this was all about. We ended up buying $40 Singapore dollars worth of bacon. We got one bag of regular and one bag of spicy. I was a little nervous but it was delicious.

Chinatown...here we come.

Stores full of Chinese stuff.

Enjoying a smoothie.  It was suppose to be mango
but it was pineapple.  Still drank it.

Time to make the jerky.

MMMMM, bacon.

A bag full of yummy goodness.

We still had time to kill so we went back to the restaurant we were at before. It was open air so we could sit and watch people. We had drinks and bacon. Yum. Cameron tried another Mango smoothie this time with success.   Much happier with mango.

 

The bacon was good.

 

We jumped in a cab and headed back to the zoo for Night Safari. It is a whole different zoo. It was situated in a rain forest. It was another amazing attraction. We decided to walk the whole thing first and then jumped on the tram and took that all around. We were so happy we did both because we saw different things on both. Obviously we saw some of the same things but a lot of stuff we saw on the tram weren't even in the same areas we were.

Entertaining ourselves in the cab.

Entering the night safari.

Yikes!

Fire breathing show before the zoo opened.

Cute little guy.

Right before it got totally dark.

Taking a break on a zebra chair.

It was 9:00, we had been gone for 13 hours, and we were ready to go back to the hotel. We jumped in a cab and made the 40 minute trip back to Sentosa. Cameron almost feel asleep a couple times but he made it. The cabbie asked us where we were from and when Todd answered America he put in a cd that started off with the YMCA song which Cameron was doing in the backseat. The cabbie thought that was pretty funny.

Back in the room and everyone took much needed showers. We did a ton of walking and sweating again today. Awesome day.