As I mentioned before, most of our time in Singapore was spent working, so I don’t have a ton of pics or anything, but I do want to wrap up my recaps so I can post about sewing again. 🙂

Mostly it’s gonna be a bunch of pictures again. Sorry.

Food and beverages. [Not pictured: The cheapest bottle of wine I could find at the only store I could find with wine and that was $23 (SG which is $17USD but tasted like $3USD wine) but had a corkscrew and we were staying at a hotel that didn’t serve alcohol so I tried to dig out the cork with a housekey but that only bent my key but turns out this hotel was quite nice so even though they don’t serve booze they do have corkscrews. Whew!]

Cashew apple!

Mountain Dew-ish, says Deborah

Breakfast

Roasted stuff

I do say, good sir, that is awfully chocolate.

These oreos on the other hand, are only mildly sweet.

Breakfast at the airport!

What I chose.

Froyo on our last night

The magic coffee machine

Fabric shopping! We had one free day to do stuff, and you already saw my flower pics, so now you have to see where I dragged Karen and Deborah. Arab Street! It’s lined with small fabric shops, just one after another. I didn’t really know what to do or where to go, but this one shop popped up on Google Maps so I was like, this’ll do. The people inside were incredibly nice, and I picked out a couple of meters of this silk brocade that I will make into something, one day, as a souvenir of this trip.

Arab Street

The shop I bought my fabric from

Deborah bought some fabric too!

Me trying to make a decision but overwhelmed

The beautiful silk brocade I settled on

I suppose I could have done this chronologically….earlier that day, first thing, we went to the beach. We just wanted to put our toes in water, not go swimming. It was pretty nice, even with the ships off on the horizon, reminding you this is a working waterway.

They have the best signs in Singapore.

Sunday was our main purpose of the whole trip – our WooCommerce Workshop for Women. It was a great success, and we hope to see a lot of great applicants come out of it. Can you believe we have no Automatticians in Singapore?

And finally, the rest of my random pictures…

This mall was 6 stories, I think.

The staircase that ends in a glass wall. Hee hee heee!

The minivan I want next.

Charlie Brown cafe!

Linus!

Kruti and Linus and Deborah!

Huh. I guess I did have a ton of pics after all.

Other random things to say about Singapore:

• There are a lot of malls. I suppose people must come from all over to shop there. It’s handy, that’s for sure.
• It’s right by the equator! I had no idea. People there seemed tickled by the fact that in other places, the length of the day varies throughout the year.
• The weather (when I was there anyway) was exactly like New Orleans in June, say. Hot, humid, and thunderstormed every afternoon. I can’t say I loved it, but I was used to it, so it was fine. It sure was nice to come home to cooler weather!
• The highway (I guess it was a highway – it was a divided four lane road that people drove fast on, anyway) was beautiful – the median was filled with flowers.
• People there are very nice. And a
• Apparently there are only two “Singaporean” foods. Chicken rice and chili crab. I only had the former (which as far as I could tell is literally chicken and rice with condiments you put on top.)
• Singapore is very expensive, if you couldn’t tell from my wine comment above. I had to buy conditioner and for just normal drugstore conditioner, I think I paid $10 USD.