Singapore

It's already been three days in Singapore. We needed some time to get settled, and traveling with children doesn't allow us to plan much more than one thing per day, let alone blogging. Anyway...

Our hotel: Grand Mercure Roxy Hotel. A 4-star alright place on the East side, maybe a bit further from the city centre than we could have wished for. Anders kind of wished we'd stayed at the Sands Marina Bay, but that would probably have hurt our budget more than it would have done us good!

There's a food court in the mall across from our hotel. Actually, there seems to be a food court at all malls! Still, this one is pretty good, and it's got "safe" food and "crazy" food. While Astrid generally likes to go for the safe stuff, Anders likes to have the possibility to try something crazy from time to time, although he regrets doing it almost every time. His sunday breakfast was chicken claws, a pork dumpling, and rice with something in it. Gluttonous rice, they called it. Emi's favorite dishes, apart from cereal with yoghurt, are eggs, rice, and toast. Fam is on a banana, apple and rice diet.

The hotel has a one-way shuttle bus to the city. During the weekend, it took us to Marina Bay, where you can find the Sands hotel (with a boat on top - imagine the view from the rooftop pool which you DO NOT have access to without being a guest), the world's largest ferris wheel, and a garden (we'll get back to that).

We left our push-chair in Thailand, since Fam would outgrow it soon. We've still got our stroller, and this carrier that lets us carry Emi on the back or Fam on the chest. Emi likes both options (stroller and carrier), so she dictates who gets to ride what.

While Astrid and Emi slept in, Fam and Anders went to the beach. Obviously, you can camp here with a tent! Who says Singapore lodging needs to be expensive?

Don't commit crime. If you do, you'll get smacked! And locked up. And probably thrown out.

Gardens by the Bay has a couple of greenhouses. I'd skip 'em if I were you and you weren't particularily interested in botantics.

Free of charge: A small water park for kids at the bay. We got Emi an oversized pair of shorts and a T-shirt, and she had an hour of fun.

Meat-eating plants.

More carnivore flora.

Actually, there was a whole bunch of meat-lovers at the top of the Cloud Forest.

Here's a vegetarian. 

One of thousands (millions?) of flowers in the Flower Dome.