Singapore Complete

Did you know that Singapore is not a city....it's a shopping outlet.
I have never ever EVER seen so many stores in my entire life.
They had Orchard Road, which is basically 3 miles of high end stores mixed with cheap-os, mixed with shopping malls. The stores went on side by side, one on top of another and then deeper behind. And that was just Orchard Road. Once you get off of that, you hit the regular stores and every "attraction" has a crazy crazy crazy gift center. On the planes, they sell food and they sell souveniours. I was amazed. eBay would not work for them. They would prefer to haggle in person, outside and with instant gratification. They want it now! Singapore - the world's largest shopping mall.

We hit the Botanical Gardens and the Orchid Gardens yesterday morning. Sounds lame and very grandmotherly, I know, but you have not seen some of these flowers. They are incredibly gorgeous and the colors and patterns on them are just incredible. You will will see when we come home. We took about 3600 pictures of them...enough to drain my battery by 1:00 pm.
Hopefully one will come out :)

From that beautiful adventure, and let me tell you, you can see the gift of God through these gardens, we headed to the hawkers. Basically, an open air food court selling all sorts of crazy concotions. They sell more Seafood than Meat, which is fine, but most are whole or come with eyes included, something new... hahah The people who run the stands are salespeople and come after you with menus and call out to you and almost expect to take your order. These are not for the meek or the passive. Because you would for sure be buying from the first person who walked up to you (forehead to chin), asked if you wanted the special and took your money. Stand firm and walk away. The Big Pau was da bomb and actually one of the first things we saw. Les and I were all over it. (one sec, it's logging me out)