Singapore Finale

Hello again, readers of my spectacular blog! Today I will bring you up to speed on what we've been up to for the past three days.

The first day in the trilogy was occupied by a visit to "Universal Studios" on Sentosa. There is not much to report, aside from an interesting special effects show. We were placed in a small building- a boathouse looking out on New York- during a category 5 hurricane. We watched a newscast on the boathouse TV about the storm, in which a sign was ripped off of a building. Shortly afterwards, a sign crashed right through the roof of the cozy boathouse and started a huge fire. It was (obviously) quite the show.

We stopped here solely for the AC and the water.

Can you name this "Dreamworks" house?

When in doubt at an Asian food court, just get the white rice. Never fails.

After that, we went skydiving. Indoors, thankfully. We hovered over a huge fan underneath us in a huge glass capsule to simulate skydiving. Plus, I got a chance to look awesome in a jumpsuit.

The diver in the black helmet is Dad, and I'm wearing a red helmet. The one standing on the bottom is our instructor.

On our third go, our instructor lifted into the air with us and spiraled up to the upper widows.

That's the end of day one. Day two is up next.

On day two, our last day in Singapore, we rode the MRT to the Gardens by the Bay, a huge botanical collection located, as the name implies, close to the ocean. There were several examples of traditional gardens from several cultures, including a Chinese garden, an Indian garden, and a colonial garden. Arguably the most spectacular of the attractions were the "Super Trees", towering tree-like structures with plants growing all up the sides. There were even themed Super Tree gardens, named the silver and golden gardens, each having a particular color scheme of plants that reflects its name.

We took a tram tour to explore the gardens with more narrative and comfort.

This is called the cannonball tree. Its fruits explode and scatter their seeds on impact.

For our last Singaporean destination, we chose the Cat Café, a café that serves your food in the presence of adorable rescue cats.

Baloo here went and took his nap in a different spot when I sat down next to him. He's a maine coon-ragdoll hybrid, by the way.

This is Kai Kai. Apparently, he purrs like a cooing pigeon.

This is what happens to unattended bags at the Cat Café.

These two- Brown Monkey and Luna- started fighting once they were done with our bag.

Jia Jia, Kai Kai's sister.

Little Miss Muffet, Baloo's sister.

Skittles, the genius of the group. Supposedly, she comes when you call her name, and was the first to figure out a puzzle toy given to the café cats. Too bad she was asleep for the whole time we were there, except for this picture.

I'm not sure what Robbie here was looking at (for quite some time) up on the windowsill. He may have been stalking a piece of fuzz, but it's hard to say for sure.

By the end of our time at the café, nearly all of the cats were asleep. There are five cats in this picture- Luna is taking a nap in the highest cave. She had to jump clean over Kai Kai to get to it.

With our remaining time that day, we caught a flight into Bali, and that's where we are now. Day three, today, was spent entirely at the beach, the pool, and the hotel. What a hard life we have. See you next time.

Next up: Biking in Bali!