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Published: October 17th 2010
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Last I checked, I was still a native Floridian. If yesterday was any indication, however, I might possibly be mistaken. It's amazing what a year of living in an alpine town with no heating in your house will do to thicken your blood. Just stepping off the plane in Singapore and feeling the blast of 95-degree 100%-humidity filled air was a jolt to the senses. Walking around in it was like being microwaved alive. Seriously, we drank more water and juice yesterday than in the past month combined, and I still felt like I was going to pass out for most of the day. We've each taken four showers since we've been here. Jeremy is handling the heat better than me, but he's fairly melting himself. Disney World in August looks like Antarctica compared to this steamy island 80 miles from the Equator.
But, pushing the stifling heat aside, we are absolutely thrilled to be back here!! The city is just as dazzling, clean, quiet, and beautiful as we remember. Our stroll yesterday consisted of the waterfront esplanade, where we got our first glimpse of the new Marina Bay Sands Resort (still under construction when we were here last year).
You won't believe the photos, either, any more than we can believe it in real life. The three mega-structures have a entire cruise ship sitting ON TOP of them, linking them in a dizzying optical illusion that floats above the city. We're going to go check it out tonight and hopefully get lots of great photos for you! From the brochure alone, Vegas has got nothing on this place. http://www.marinabaysands.com/ if you want to check it out!
From the esplanade, we headed down to Chinatown, as we didn't get to that end of the city last time. Turn a corner, and poof! There you are, back in China. Amazing. We had lunch at a Vietnamese restaurant before heading back to the hostel to cool off and get out of the scorching sun. We then had an adventure trying to find an HP Outlet Store, as the power strip for our laptop finally fried (too many different adapters in too many different countries). $170 later (OUCH!) we were able to power up our laptop again. At least it happened in Singapore and not some tiny village in Thailand - this place is light years ahead of us in terms of
technology.
Dinner last night was at the same lovely tapas restaurant we hit last year (minus the flaming absinthe shots this time). They added a rooftop terrace and we had the whole place to ourselves, sweating profusely between the heat and the spicy food. The plan was to hit Marina Bay last night, but between the heat and jet lag, I was worn out. Then I awoke at 5am this morning wide awake (grrrr!) and thought I'd shoot this blog off to you all since I can't sleep anyway.
So!! That's where we're at. We're meeting up with some friends we made in Queenstown later today, then checking out the hotel. Tomorrow evening is our last-minute flight up to Kuala Lumpur, barring any more unforeseen circumstances!! Hope you all are enjoying your cooler weather as we're melting on the Equator...
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Joe Smuin
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White girl.
Amy and Jeremy: Glad to see that you are safely in SinGAH pore (as an old Brit friend used to pronounce it) and are maintaining your usual high standards of photography. Amy, I have to chuckle at that one closeup photo of you ... the sunburn on your face is still evident and yet you now look like a real northern British Isles lassie ... milk white skin. Amazing what differences living in the cool lattitudes makes, isn't it?! Being of reddish hair complexion, you didn't have to stretch very far to look like a New Zealander. What I'm going to be interested to see with the passage of time is whether or not your time in New Zealand has the result of you either going back there or moving to the more northern climes of the States permanently. In the meantime, have fun, stay safe and keep the wonderful photos coming. Joe