Our Day in Singapore

"Thanks be to Got," (a little Kittism for your reading pleasure.) we got a good night sleep at the Crowne Plaza Hotel.

We got ourselves together and headed down to the breakfast buffet.

We are not talking make your own waffles and rubber scrambled eggs.

Here were my buffet choices:

Over Easy Egg 

Prepared to order the Egg Bar

Bean Paste Bow 

(which I used to soak up the yolk of 

previously mentioned egg.)

Chicken Shumai

Chinese noodle soup 

Prepared to order at the soup station.

 Salt Marlin 

(like lox but with Marlin. 

This I went back for, so fresh so unique.) 

Indian Eggplant Curry 

Maruku

A rice flour savory cracker.

These were thin, crispy, 

and just a little bit spicy. 

Perfect for scooping up the Eggplant Curry.

Melon

Kopa

Coffee with Cream and Sugar

So now it is 11:30 and we are off for our on the FunZee City tour. We head for the Singapore MRT station which is just a 5 minute walk. And then we take the train to Marina Center to get our business pass. The train is about 30 minutes ride so we will not have a lot of time to ride around. We need to get back to the hotel by 2pm to get our bags and head to the airport which is just a 5 minute ride on the train. The airport train runs directly from the hotel. I kind of wish we had more time in Singapore. 

Ok that is all well and good, but here is what really happened. We walked our 5 minutes to the train station and then another 5 minutes of escalators down to the platform where we found that the auto ticket machines which take credit cards do not actually accept credit cards and neither does the cashier. The cashier sends us back up the escalators to cash machines, having successfully purchased our tickets 

we were off on the MRT. 

The trains are very clean and well attended. Standing room only as we approach.

City Center, our transfer station for Marina Center. So far we have felt very safe everywhere we have gone. Everyone is friendly and helpful. 

The train does not actually stop at a station called Marina Center, but there was one called Marina Bay. We got off there and found we were only a 5 minute (weird right) cab ride to Marina Center. So before you think everything went bad, in this 3 square block Marina Center Mall, the cabby just landed us just outside the door of the City Tours office.  Apparently they would have picked us up in a limo at the hotel, a fact that they failed to mention during our long email correspondence.

The bus stop is just across the street and of course we have just missed a bus and have to wait for 10 minutes for the bus stop. The bus comes and we are on our way finally. The first stop is the Flyer, which is their ferris wheel.  The bus driver announces that we will have 20 minutes to get out and look around. We opt to stay on the air conditioned bus.

We were so involved in our task of getting on this bus that we had not noticed that it was 1:30pm. And if we were going to catch our plane at 3:00 we had to get a cab right then.

Marina Bay Sands Hotel
With it's Roof Top Pool

So our time in Singapore included a great meal, photos taken through taxi windows and an education of the transportation system.