Botanical Gardens

A National Treasure of Singapore Over the course of our 1st few weekends we check out the incredible botanical gardens.   As we walked through the gardens, we saw awesome tropical flowers, amazing fish and turtles in the ponds and giant lizards crawling along the ground- and even a cannonball tree.     National Orchids Garden…

Temple Day!

Today we went  to 4 Buddhist temples, 1 mosque and 1 Hindu temple. we spent about 5 hours in total at all of the temples. First we went to a temple called the Wak Hai Cheng temple which had really cool clay dragons on the roof. after that we went to one of the bigger…

A Day in the Battle Box

Jay’s impressions: Today we went to an underground planning area from World War II where Singapore decided to surrender to the Japanese. It was a huge underground fortress and had many planning tables where there were wax figures posing as the real people would have been doing. For example, there were people pushing around information…

Our first Saturday

Happy weekend! We survived our first day and night in Singapore. We were all beat and ended up falling asleep on the couch (while watching the Eagles Superbowl video) at 6:30p. Not too shabby, as everyone slept until 7am this morning. Since it’s Saturday, we thought we would begin exploring our new home with a…

We’ve arrived!

17 hours SFO to SIN and we are all still holding it together (but barely)! The flight was uneventful and we all skipped dinner in favor of a good night sleep. Thank goodness for lay flat seats and eye masks! Jay’s thoughts: Hi! We have arrived at the Singapore airport and it was a very…

On our way!

After weeks of planning, cleaning and packing, April 4th has arrived! Today is the day we leave for our Singapore adventure. For the last few days, we have been busy saying “see you soon” to friends, family and classmates. Now it is finally time to leave! This blog will serve as our way to stay…