Singapore more!

hhheeelllloooo!! SO today i found them ost depressing thing in singapore a shop called ' XXL Sizes available - 12 to 18' I'm now officialy XXL! tom found that hilarious and has been taking the mick out of me ever since! Anyway enough about that, onto what we've been up to....

Friday: Today we went to Sentosa island 'Singapore's resort island'. The viewing tower was pretty cool, great views out over singapore and we arrived on the island via cable car from the city which was very very cool. however aside form the beach there was a distinct lack of things to do without paying large amount of money for the privilage and being cheap travellers we didnt want to do that!

in saying that we did pay to go on the luge - a cool go-kart type thing where you go down the side of one of the hills which gives you great views out over singapore and the sea. A skylift takes you back up to the top - i e-mailed mum a photo of tom and i on that :-)

The most impressive thing about sentosa island was seeing the merlion, one of the main images of singapore which was very impressive!

We left sentosa in the afternoon and got the monorail to vivo ciity - the largest shopping centre in singapore. It's HUGE! It only opened 3 months ago so is incredibly modern, there is a park on the roof with a really big grassy area as well as a shallow swimming pool and a kids play area - a really really nice place to shop apart from beign riduculously busy but it probably didnt help that we went on a bank holiday...

Despite the disapointments we had a really good day out at Sentosa - and tom was happy because it didnt involve TOO much shopping (although he's bought more than me since we got here!!)

When we got back to the centre of Singaporewe went to the cinema and watched Mr Bean. Everyone was going crazy for it -laughing at absolutely everything and loving it!! It was a really cool film, made cooler by the fact we were watching it ini singapore with chinese subtitles!

Saturday: Today we went to Singapore zoo which was incredible and also saddening at the same time. It was an amazing zoo, almost like being in a rainforest as it was full or greenery and awesome trees and the animal displays were fantastic, they looked really real and comfortable. However, the problem being that, once you have seen these animals in the wild, no matter how nice their cage is it is still upsetting to see them in captivity. Especially saddening was the big cats - metres of space to roam around in rather than miles and miles of African bush. A really cool zoo though, and we had an ace day out :-)

Sunday we left the Hangout (*sob*) and moved to The Royal Peacock Hotel in Chinatown which is where we start our first trip. We are currently sat in an internet cafe in Chinatown, we meet the rest of the group at 5pm - looking forward to that! Tomorrow we start the trip by travelling to Melaka in Malaysia, we enter Thailand on the 16th April.

Anyway nothing else to update for now, ill e-mail and blog as often as i can though unsure as to how much acess to internet we will have

miss you

lou

xxx