Singapore

This will be the penultimate entry of the 3monthswith3monkeys blog and it's taken a while to get around to do it.  I was out cleaning the driveway today wondering why it's taken me so long to finish it off and I think subconsciously I've been putting it off because once the last entry is done, that's it, the holiday is over.

I mean obviously it's over, we've been home for 11 days now so I'm not delusional but it'll be a funny thing not sitting down and writing out a summary of the days events after doing it for so long.  As much as I moaned about writing it after we'd come home from a days adventure in the end it was well worthwhile now that I look back on it.

So with that said here we go.

Harry - 10 weeks

The last day of our holiday so not wanting to get off to a late start and miss half the day we caught the train into town at about 11.30am.  First stop was Boat Quay which is a restaurant and bar precinct in the centre of the city.  

Boat Quay was formerly the busiest part of the old port of Singapore back in the 1860's with most of the sea trade passing through this area.  

Harry - 11 years

We stopped there for a reenactment of a photo that was taken when Harry was a mere 10 weeks old from the days when Nicki and I lived in Singapore.   

With that done we headed off for lunch at Lau Pa Sat which is a hawker food centre not too far from Boat Quay.  

Singaporeans are famous for and passionate about 2 things, shopping and eating.  Not only is the food great, it's cheap and plentiful, and available from any of the thousands of hawker stalls dotted around the island.  

Lau Pa Sat

Finding a seat was hard going as it was smack in the middle of lunchtime but after a while we finally bagged a table & parked ourselves down.  

As the kids are rank amateurs at the hawker food caper Nicki and I headed off into the throng and came back with plates of food from the various hawker stalls.  Indian, Malay and Singaporean food at about 4 oz dollars a plate.

Hawker food - brilliant

We had a massive meal and after grabbing some drinks we waddled off towards Chinatown to pick up some souvenirs and get some cheap haircuts for all of us.

Suitably shorn of excess hair and full of food we jumped into a cab and went back to our friends house to kill a few hours and for a final last pack of the suitcases.

When the time came we ordered a cab and said our farewells and thanks and headed off to one of the world's best airports.  (Singaporeans have got the airport caper down pat and Changi consistently ranks in the top couple of airports in the world.)  

   The Sri Mariamman Temple
Singapore's oldest Hindu temple

Checked in with plenty of time to spare and decided that one hawker feed wasn't enough during the day so we caught the inter-terminal train to terminal 3 to hit up that the local food court in the basement there.  (A trick for young players.)

Another massive feed and then made our way back to the boarding gate to wait for our flight to be called at 11.30pm.

Tomorrow:  The aftermath.

Inside Lau Pa Sat