We love Singapore, but Singapore doesn't love us back

We have finally found some time on the internet AND a computer that uploads our pictures! So here we go....I guess first we should update you on our itnerary for the past week or so. Koh Phi Phi was super nice but too rich for our taste. We did find The Apache Bar though as you will see below. We left after two nights because of the high prices and too many rich Euro tourists. We headed to Koh Lanta which is a pretty island very much like Koh Tao in some ways but SO boring! We did find some Thai bartenders to play some intense games of Connect Four with though....yeah that was the highlight of our nights in Koh Lanta. Because we had to get new visas we had to decide which country to go to and for how long. We could have just done a visa run which takes you on a bus to the closest border (Malaysia) and then back in the same day or we could have gone to Kuala Lumpur but instead we got the sudden urge to go to SINGAPORE! Although we love this city - its beautiful, clean, modern, and a lot like home - it is SO expensive (we will NEVER complain about anywhere in Thailand again) and didnt leave us many options for eating, drinking, or entertainment. We did get to see the Night Safari though (baisically going to the zoo at night) where we met two other travellers and found ourselves a conspiracy about a missing rhino.....and then day tripped to Santosa island with them the next day. Here are pictures of our journey.....

Ta Da: Our first ladyboy show EVER!! this is still from ko phi phi, but we thought it was definately blog worthy. a cabaret show completely consisting of lady boys!!! Ko phi phi didn't have much going for it other than this bar and their nightly shows. The next night wasa fire show where we watched 10-12 year old kids, fling flaming sticks around synched to music. Note to parents: why didn't you ever get me started in fire twirling, there are limitless possibilities for employment here.

This is a picture of Natalie's gorgeous leg after ONE NIGHT of not using bug spray. We now have full belief that bug spray in fact does work. there were a total of 81 bug bites (just on her legs), and counting.... we'll keep you updated, don't worry.

Fact: Singapore was the first country in Asia to gain McDonald's delivery. As a result of hearing about this phenomenon, we immediately (i mean before our bags made it to the hotel room) ordered an obscene amount of fast food. This is us with the delivery man, they have a uniform and everything!!! In case your curious, the fries were a little off but the cheeseburgers were still good.

Singapore's widely reveered Merlion. In fact it's just a wierd looking statue facing no direction in particular that you can pay upwards of ten dollars to get to the top of. we stayed at the bottom. Sentosa island (the location of this beautiful creature) was dissapointing on the whole. the cable car ride over there was meh...like an elevator ride, but sideways, and not as cool. the highlight of the day was a fountain which was cool enough to stick our feet in for a substantial amount of time. great 30 minutes of the day. some other chinese tourists took our example and got right in there with us. See below.

This picture is depicting our extreme distaste for such bullshit tourist attractions being hyped up. #1: the southern most point of continental asia, is located on an ISLAND off of another ISLAND. #2: you can't even see water from the viewpoint, its all big ocean liners and crap blocking the view. #3 we had to start lowering our expectations of what Singapore terms "view points" any ways. most often they were just glorified benches with trees surrounding them.

The animal show on sentosa island was definately ripped off from the night safari, however flash scares the animals of the night (possibly causing at one point a rhino attack resulting int he rhinos death...if we're not mistaken the rhino is now burried in the "animal cemetary", but how would you bury a giraffe? would you need to fold it in half? who knows...) anyways the point is that we got to get up close and personal with the animals after...nat chose the snake, i got the husky!!! his namke was striker, i loved him.

After a long day of mostly dissapointing sentosa island stuff...we got over to another hostel in Little India and met up to play a completely non-sober game of Kings. When you're playing with a bunch of british people the "everyone needs to speak with an accent at all times" rule get a little shady. the pirate accent was the alltime best though. It was an english guy trying to be an american pirate, ayy matie!

Today we leave to go back home - Thailand. We are making our way to Koh Pha Ngan on the gulf coast to go to the Full Moon Party on the 2nd. We have convinced the two fellows in the back of this picture that its not to be missed and so now we will have a group to party with there which makes us feel a bit safer since our previous plan involved tying ourselves together with a leash so as to avoid losing each other in the crowd.

Updates of our full mooning to come, get excited!