you can hate me now, but i won't stop now.....

Day 1

I slept in until noon-time since we had gotten in really early that morning. Once I got up and got ready, we met the 'rentals (my bro and I have our own room!!!) and went down to the 4th floor for lunch. On the way to the elevator, my Mom gives the quote of the day, "Your father is hungry and he can't wait to see if they have some of that octopus testicle." I about died. The hotel buffet was surprisingly good because it was geared toward more western tastes, so no octopus. YET. After lunch, we headed to Orchard Road to do some shopping. There was mall after mall on this street and accordingly a Starbucks to go with each one. There are a serious amount of coffee shops here! Most of the stores were designer stores in these malls, but nothing that you couldn't get in the States, so I was reluctant to buy anything just yet. We went to one mall that had Toys'R'Us that occupied an entire floor.......almost everything was the same. It did have Sylvanian Families which I LOVED as a kid. It's like a doll house, but instead of people you get families of different animals, like the Bear Family, or Badger Family..........so kute with a k. We found a huge Borders in one of the malls and I bought the 5th Harry Potter in paperback for the plane. It has the British cover so kinda neat, actually. After shopping for a while, my Mom and I decided to look for a few doll stores and then head back to the hotel. These "doll" stores were really action figures and Blythe, who is a really scary doll straight out the 60s and 70s. She is truly terrifying to me. We got back and napped for a hot minute and then ate dinner at the hotel. Later that night, we met up with Rita, my dad's former classmate when he was in grade school (my Mom speculates that they were a couple at some point). She took us to one of the Kopitiam eating areas. It's a large food court with different vendors. The one we went to was outside or rather the tables were outside in the middle of the street. Apparently, they close the street down at about 7PM and the vendors are allowed to set-up. Rita and my Dad promptly ordered about 6 different dishes and we had already eaten dinner. They ordered chicken and beef satay, a noodle dish, some kind of mini cabbage, shrimp, and calamari. OCTOPUS........YESSSSSS. I tried everything and I really enjoyed all of it. Adam refused to eat the calamari because he said it looked like worms. But Rita kept pushing him to try some. Love her.

Day 2

After being lazy for a few days, I decided that it would be best for me to get up and run some. I went to the hotel gym which overlooked the roof-top pool (the Life!!). I had to run on the hotel treadmill which I find to be dreadful; all I see is this timer counting ever so slowly. I ran for 45 minutes and listened to GirlTalk (thanks Hillz!) I was about to stop running when Diddy comes on and is like "you can hate me now....but I won't stop now." Hahahaha I didn't stop.......it was refreshing. Luckily, there was a little Asian man that started running beside me; I pretended that he was Kirstie and baby Sasha and it helped me run too. He was probably the size of baby Sasha.....hahahaha. Lunch today was at the Hard Rock Cafe, the first one to be built in Asia! We had the cutest little Filipino waitress, Vivian. She just stood there and talked to us for about 15 minutes. She was telling us about this place that had multiple bars each centered around a different type of music. She then says, "but I can't go there no more." We asked why and she responds, " because I get drunk and then I get loss." Priceless. Love her too. After lunch, we went to the Singapore Flyer, the world's largest observation wheel! We got our own capsule AKA now we can act like fools. It takes about 30 minutes to make a full revolution and I got some pretty shots and of course, a TILT picture at the very top! We then went to the Funan Center, a mall completely dedicated to electronics. Mecca for Asians. The best part: there is this saddle thing/mini mechanical bull that is a piece of exercise equipment. It's supposed to help with posture and strengthening your core. Of course, it ends in me saying, "can we get one, Dad?" My Dad and brother then took us to a mall they went to looking for a certain guitar because Adam said they had lots of shoes that I would like. I wanted to find the Nikes I have been wanting for over a year now. I missed getting them in the USA and I wear a smaller size so it's hard to find them on eBay. Unfortunately, I didn't find them......elusive Peacocks.

TILT!!!

Sorry this is a long post. I love you all!!!

Oh and here's the best store sign I've seen so far! ENJOY!!!