Thursday May 2
We arrived in Singapore at noon. Our friend K and her little boy met us at the airport.
We dropped our bags at their apartment. It's a cute little (by Canadian standards) two bedroom place. It's a very comfortable size. They have a lot of visitors and were all set up for us. We even got our own room. K has fun decorating style and has made the place feel very homey!
K is at home with her son. D works long days. So K and little S were our tour guides around Singapore, and excellent ones I might add!
The main thing I wanted to see was the super trees I'd read about that we're just finished. So we went to them first thing was go to the Gardens by the Bay.
On the way there were several fountains that provided great entertainment for the little guy in our company.
The super trees did not disappoint! I do not fully understand them but they are these enormous metal trees, I think there are five of them. They are metal with plants growing out of them horizontally. They have solar panels all over them, I think. They are supposed to be fully sustaining as in they recycle back all e energy they use or something. I don't really know, just google it if you're interested (haha). What I do know is they're super cool to see and Eco friendly and I loved.
They also have two domes right next to them that are sort of like the Mutart Conservatory, in Edmonton x10.
The one we went in was called The Cloud Forest. Inside there was this mountain of plants with a waterfall coming off the front. You take and elevator up and then walk down this spirally ramp. It has beautiful plants all around it. Cloud forest are a special kind of ecosystem that is at great risk with global warming and apparently takes 200 to 300 years to mature. It had a very interesting assortment of crazy awesome plants. I loved it.
We had dinner in the Arab quarter. We at a restaurant call Alaturka that served Turkish food for dinner. Yum! You can get pretty much any food imagination or in Singapore. And it's awesome!
We arrived in Singapore at noon. Our friend K and her little boy met us at the airport.
We dropped our bags at their apartment. It's a cute little (by Canadian standards) two bedroom place. It's a very comfortable size. They have a lot of visitors and were all set up for us. We even got our own room. K has fun decorating style and has made the place feel very homey!
K is at home with her son. D works long days. So K and little S were our tour guides around Singapore, and excellent ones I might add!
The main thing I wanted to see was the super trees I'd read about that we're just finished. So we went to them first thing was go to the Gardens by the Bay.
They also have two domes right next to them that are sort of like the Mutart Conservatory, in Edmonton x10.
The one we went in was called The Cloud Forest. Inside there was this mountain of plants with a waterfall coming off the front. You take and elevator up and then walk down this spirally ramp. It has beautiful plants all around it. Cloud forest are a special kind of ecosystem that is at great risk with global warming and apparently takes 200 to 300 years to mature. It had a very interesting assortment of crazy awesome plants. I loved it.
We had dinner in the Arab quarter. We at a restaurant call Alaturka that served Turkish food for dinner. Yum! You can get pretty much any food imagination or in Singapore. And it's awesome!
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