Hi everyone,

This morning we decided to skip hotel breakfast again, walk down to Great World and grab Ya Kun Kaya toast again because it was so good the first time. It didn’t disappoint again!

We planned to do this as the MRT station is at Great World so it would be easy to get to our next destination. We took the MRT to Orchard road which is a massive shopping street with an enormous shopping centre called ION. Unfortunately though Singapore does not have a morning culture at all so everything we closed. This turned out to be a bit of a wasted trip so we just jumped back on the MRT to Great world and took Julian to a cool indoor play centre called Amazonia.

After Amazonia, we went back to the hotel for a bit of rest before heading back down to the MRT for orchard. This time it was about 4pm so everything was open, a vastly different experience. It was buzzing and everything was open.

As we walked through ION we saw a Popeyes chicken and couldn’t resist getting that for dinner. Ronnie got the chicken sandwich and Aimee got some salted egg chicken. After eating many days of Asian food it felt good to get something western. It went down a treat.

Out the front of ION on Orchard Road they have a few different ice cream uncles who ride their bike/stores along the road and sell ice cream sandwiches for $2 each. It’s literally ice cream on bread, but fuck there is something about spending $2 and getting an old Singaporean man to make you an ice cream sandwich that just slaps. It tasted great too!

We then jumped back on the MRT over to Raffles place which was the closest MRT stop to the famous Singapore landmark – The Merlion. We had anticipated seeing this a few days ago but we didn’t get there. It’s a statue, but it’s iconic and there was ALOT of people there.

We walked around the esplanade, past the fancy hotels and across the helix bridge over to Marina Bay Sands and enjoyed the views.

We grabbed a fancy iced tea inside MBS, it was dang massive, way bigger than we expected.

We walked over to gardens by the bay and Julian spent a bit of time playing at the playground there as the sun went down.

Then we went over to watch the Gardens by the bay night light show – Garden Rhapsody.

After the show they have an art installation where all of the super trees shoot out mist and then lights are projected on the mist to make it look like the aurora borealis. It’s hard to take a picture of, but it’s pretty awesome.

It was very late at this time and we had to walk back to the MRT, grabbed some Chagee ice teas from great world and made the trek back to the hotel.

Step count – 21,779 or 14.78kms – we keep planning small days, but the days get bigger.

Costs –

Fraser Suites: $351

Ya Kun Kaya: $18.52

MRT: $18.20

Drinks at MBS $16.42

Amazonia: $51.78

Popeyes: $37.56

Chagee: $13.90

Ice cream uncle: $6.60

Total: $513.98

Much love,

Ronnie, Aimee and Julian