Getting On

Getting On With Things

Today’s post will be fairly short—it’s probably my last chance to upload several pictures at a time, even though they get posted in random order.  Future posts will have to be limited because of the slow upload speeds.

Poor Tom came down with a chest cold yesterday.  The timing is about right for having caught it on the plane.  We stocked up on cold remedies at the pharmacy in the adjacent shopping mall, he went to bed yesterday about 7:30 pm and slept for 12 hours.  

We argued about how much activity he should expend today and I lost.  So we headed out after breakfast to the Gardens by the Bay, a tremendous botanical garden here in Singapore.  Today was the opening of their Cherry Blossom festival exhibition which we wanted to catch.  Many of the trees were just starting to bloom, we imagine it will be just spectacular in a few more days.  Some of the other exhibits included LEGO models of the plants in that display.

After that, we headed over to the Singapore Flyer.  It’s the giant Ferris wheel the same size as the London Eye.  Tom was really interested in riding it, so we did.  It was the middle of the day, so not crowded, and we had the whole car to ourselves.  Some of the pictures below were taken from the Flyer, if you look close at the one of the city skyline you can see our hotel on the ride side of the picture—two reddish brick buildings, the one on the left is our hotel on the river at Clarke Quay.

After a late lunch/early dinner at a Thai place across the river, we came back to the hotel to pack up and re-organize for boarding the Sapphire Princess tomorrow.  Somewhere in the middle of that Tom fell asleep and dozed until past dinner time, so when he woke up, he brushed his teeth and went back to bed.  The alarm is set for 7:30 so he’ll get another good nights sleep and hopefully get rid of this cold quickly.