Another HOT day here in Singapore, we started out by walking down by the river to Boat Quay, another restaurant/bar hotspot in Singapore. We walked down to the Fullerton Hotel, another historic hotel in Singapore located at the mouth of the Singapore River. It was beautiful inside and out and we saw lots of brides and grooms taking pictures! Good thing we had our sweat rags because we did A LOT of walking and sweating! The Fullerton Hotel is also located right across from Marina Bay and Merlion Park, our next stop!Merlion Park is a must-see on a trip to Singapore. The Merlion statue has been there since 1972 and is the head of a lion and the body of a fish! This is symbolic as it is from the original name of Singapore... "Singapura" which mean "lion city," and also because Singapore started as a small fishing village which is where the fish part comes from. It's pretty neat and there were certainly a lot of tourists down there!
Next we walked around the bay, stopping frequently in the shade to cool off or to quickly hop into a building with A/C on our way to the Marina Bay Sands Hotel and Shops! This was very impressive. The shops went on forever and were all pretty high end. Marina Bay Sands was built in 2006, the property has a 2,561-room hotel, a 1,300,000-square-foot convention-exhibition center, 800,000-square-foot Marina Bay Sands mall, an ArtScience museum, two large theaters, seven "celebrity chef" restaurants, two floating Crystal Pavilions, an ice skating rink, and the world's largest atrium casino with 500 tables and 1,600 slot machines. The complex is topped by a 340m-long SkyPark with a capacity of 3,900 people and a 150m infinity swimming pool... to say the least it is impressive!!! 
We spent a few hours just walking around the shops and eating at the delicious food court inside... and when I say food court, I'm talking real dishes, fancy chopsticks, and about 20+ freshly made asian food specialties to choose from... we watched them make noodles right in front of us, all had fresh veggies too... it wasn't like a food court in an American Mall to say the least. We even had freshly squeezed kiwi juice! The ice skating rink was right next to the food court so while you ate you could watch people skate around. We headed up to the top of the SkyPark to get the awesome views... on the 57th floor! It was breathtaking up there. Unfortunately because we weren't guests at the hotel we could only walk around a small section of the SkyPark, but we got some amazing pictures looking down at the city and also out to the sea!Next was the world famous Singapore Flyer, the 165-meter high Observation Wheel is the tallest in the world and takes 30 minutes to do one full rotation. It is HUGE and very sturdy! You go into a car with about 12 people and can walk around and take pictures and get a good view of most of the city this way!
After our busy day we went back to the pool to chill out for a little bit and it was incredibly hot out there... even at 1600! We didn't stay long as both of us got a lot of sun being outside walking around all day! We had a busy couple of days but good thing because Damian was supposed to be here for another 24+ hours when he got a phone call in the hotel that he had to be back on the ship ASAP! I was obviously super bummed because it was very unexpected and I hadn't even begun to think about saying good-bye again! We grabbed a quick dinner and then he headed back to the ship.... tear tear tear.
Today I spent some time by the pool and just walking around the city. We were going to go to Sentosa Island today to spend the day together on the beach before he left but my shoulders got too much sun yesterday, and I didn't want to go by myself. I head back to Japan tomorrow morning... about a 7 hour flight. Hope these 3 blogs make up for me not blogging for a few days! :)
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