Sensational Singapore!

Yesterday we may have been eating supper with the locals but today is a new day and we started it off -  American Style!  Iced Peppermint Mocha Coffees at Starbucks for Mommy & Daddy and breakfast at Micky Donald's (as Michael calls it!) for the kids.

Starbucks in Singapore!  WOO-HOO!

Never has a fat saturated, heart attack inducing, Sausage McMuffin with egg EVER tasted so good!  It really was a bit sad - The way the six of us scarfed down our food in record time like a bunch of starving refugees!  Nah.  Just some homesick foodies from America.  After breakfast, we decided we would see if we could figure out the public transportation thing.  It turned out to be super easy and the cleanliness left us speechless!

A nice woman took us under her wing and when we asked how much to ride the bus - She literally took out her pocketbook and started to give us her change!

  Rachel going into SHOCK due to the extreme kindness!

Outside the shopping mall by the bus stop.

Coins for David

I think I have enough to ride the bus!?

Matt waiting at the front of the bus & watching for our stop.

The people on the bus go "bump, bump, bump!"

A proud & shining moment.  Matt stops to gloat b/c it was HIS idea to take the bus!

Daver LOVES his dolphins!

Posing in the Park

The OCEAN!!  Yay!

We were a family on a mission!  We made our way to the beach...of course the kids wanted to SWIM but Daddy and I had other plans.  We'll have to save that for NEXT time!

If we had stumbled upon the Hatch Shell - I would've sworn we were in Boston! Well, sorta. Except for the palm trees and it was WAY hotter! Haha! 

 Aha!  BIKE rentals! 
That's what Mom & Dad were looking for!

Now that we got our bikes...Next mission?!  LUNCH!

It doesn't get much "fresher" than this, Kids!

The selection process was a bit daunting!

Showing Daddy our Scary Fish Faces!!

Fascinating

They gave us each a little bowl to wash our hands in (Rachel's doing what sisters do...badger their little brothers...all in good fun, right?!)

David figured out how to use his chopsticks ;0)

Struggling too!

Quick!  Eat it before you drop it!

Got it!!!

Frog Legs got a mixed review from Rachel

 Michael lovin' the frog legs!

Disgusted at the thought of it - She agrees to try this tiny little morsel....Of course, once she tried the frog legs - She liked them!

Now David's turn!  (He like them too!)

Chili Crab

 You're looking at one happy New Englander...he's missed his seafood since moving to India.

After lunch we hopped back on our bikes (we needed the exercise after all that food!  WOW!)  Rachel got a flat tire and Michael swooped in as "Hero Brother" and rescued her by riding her broken down bike all the way back to the rental shop.  Such a nice brother!!  However, I think Rachel regrets letting him help b/c she'll never hear the end of it.  He holds it over her head and brings it up to his advantage whenever he can squeeze it in.  Heehe!

It was a toasty day and the kids were so happy when they bumped into some people at the park passing out FREE ice cold drinks. (It was a marketing ploy...some new African fruit drink that had only been in Singapore for a couple of months.)

Chuggin' it down!

Then it was time to get back to the hotel for a quick family "power nap" b/c we had a big night planned back at the Singapore Zoo....The Night Safari!!! 

 One of our favourite attractions at the Night Safari was the

FIRE SHOW!!!

WOOOO-HOOOOO!

This poor Bugger from the audience got dragged onto the stage.

They told him to take off his shirt (Of course, I let out a Woot-Woot...gotta give the 'Ole Chap a little confidence in himself, right?!)  I mean my confidence would be in the crapper and I'd be crippled by embarrassment too if I got called up onto stage in front of all those people in what appeared to be my UNDERWEAR!!!  I know!  It's a fashion emergency!  Those are his shorts not his skivvies!!  Wee-Oo-Wee-Oo-Woo-Oo  (That's my Fashion Police Siren!)  YIKES! 

Although he may have been a bit fashioned challenged he was a GREAT sport and I would have never trusted these crazy-fire-breathin-whack-o's!  With multiple near miss Michael Jackson "flaming-Pepsi-hair" moments they somehow managed to put on a great show without turning themselves or anyone else to ASH!

We never did figure out what they were "Puff-the-Magic-Dragoning" out of their mouths?!  Alcohol, maybe?!  I don't know...it smelled like MOTOR-OIL!?  We determined that if the flames don't kill him that toxic TNT juice he's slurpin' most certainly will slay him! 

Notice the guy in the background - filling his cheeks full of magical fire fluid!

 They were blowing fumes all over tarnation! 

Getting ready to start our journey into the

 "Mystical" Night Kingdom.

Posing with one of the magical creatures from the Night Safari

Jelly Fish hanging from the sky!

All sorts of unique illuminations to light the pathway

One of the coolest things we got to witness during the Night Safari was watching a jungle cat go fishing for her supper!  She stood perched on the water's edge.  Watching.  Silent.  Her head would swivel back and forth as she would scan what was lurking below the rambling water service.  Then all of the sudden....BAM!  She lept across the trickling brook of water and SPLASHED into the water and came out with DINNER in her mouth!  I couldn't believe it!  I thought cats didn't like water!?  All I expected to see was her to stick her lightning fast paw into the rushing water and snag a fish or something!?  So when she went PLUNGING...Her Whole Body...into the water we all GASPED!  It was so shocking and so exciting! 

We also got to see rhinos taking mud baths and lions wrestling and playing with one another.  My least favourite portion was the flying squirrels and the bat exhibit!  I think ALL SIX of us might have hit the deck and screamed at least once!?! 

Time to say "Good Night and Good-Bye" to the Singapore Zoo!

Although the jungle might have been WIDE AWAKE it was time for these diurnal creatures to head back to the hotel.  We are heading to Phuket Thailand tomorrow!