Tourists!

Because we were in Singapore over a week ago, I've sort of lost interest, but I'll give you a little bit about our day as tourists, mostly because I think Rowan wants me to.

We had no idea what to do with ourselves for a day, so we signed up for a tour of Sentosa, an island converted by the Singapore government into a big tourist trap.

Our day featured a ride in a cable car from the mainland to the island, and then we went through a somewhat interesting wax museum of Singapore's history.We would have spent more time there, but the tour kept a tight schedule so we were hurrying from attraction to attraction.

Then we went to a dolphin show. We sat on the beach very close to the dolphins; it was amazing. The dolphins were pink dolphins, and they are strange but beautiful creatures.These dolphins are young, so only their bellies were pink; they change color completely as they get older.

We then went to an aquarium, which was nice.They had a moving floor that carried us through a tunnel of fish.

We then rode the "SkyRide," which was basically a chair lift like you'd find at a ski hill. It took us down to the beach where we watched "Songs of the Sea," a musical singing laser light fire water and animation show. It defies description, and may have been one of the strangest things I have ever seen.

Afterwards, we went for food. We found a place where you sit cross-legged on pillows on the floor and eat from a really low table.We thought it would be an authentic local experience, but it was mostly tourists. And, according to Rowan, the chapati was not good. (My understanding of chapati was an Indian tortilla, and what we got was very tortilla-like. However, Rowan insists good chapatis are like crepes.)

Our touristing complete, we went home and prepared to fly to Surabaya, where we will live like real people.

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