When I said I'd add another blog if something equally dramatic and exciting happened, that wasn't an open invitation!! So we go for a walk by a reservoir, where there's some of the only rainforest left in Singapore, and apparently you can see turtles, monitor lizards, monkeys... Well, it started raining pretty heavy, and then a storm broke. Thunder and lightning everywhere. At this point, let me just say, I was always told that lightning takes the shortest route to earth. So being surrounded by trees, you'd expect there to be plenty of targets. Well, if anyone tells you the same thing, DON'T BELIEVE THEM!!! About 70 metres ahead of us a bolt of lightning struck the ground on the path we were walking on, completely ignoring the numerous tree options available. And if not a
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