This whole place is its own amusement park!

Yesterday we left Singapore and it was soo much fun. (I was reading through some of my old posts and realize I need new adjectives I continually use the same ones) I was not super excited for Singapore, but I was proven wrong.  The city is full of tons to do, and it is clean and very much like home. I would say its like New York and LA mixed, but with nicer people, and way way way cleaner. There was a ton of development and skyscrapers. Everyone seemed very happy and content. Did you know that Singapore’s GDP per capita is higher than the states. You could tell there were no homeless or beggars. We were only there for one night so this should be short, but I figured a nice little background would be helpful.

The first day we went to an island right off the cost called Sentosa. We took a lot of pictures went and saw the merlion (Singapore’s “mascot”) and wandered around. We took a glass gondala that sparkles at night to get there. Pretty cool ehhh. Then we checked into our hotel that was super nice and had an infinity pool on the roof, sooooo awesome!!!! That night we were all going to go out to a club, but first Mike and I being the only 2 21 year olds in our group decided to go down to the casino. We lost 40 or our own money, and then we went to leave and the two Singapore men next to me bought us a beer and gave me 25 dollars to bet with. I only bet when they told me and won at first but in the end I lost 200 of these men’s money. Good thing they didn’t seem to care, and they were winning (they thought that my hair was lucky). By the time we left the casino everyone else had already left so we just went to this place called Clarke quay were all of the bars were and sat down and had some drinks and listened to a live band. All in all fun night.

The next day we went off and explored Singapore a little bit. We went to this park that had a bunch of sculptures and statures that were characters and stories of the Chinese and Singapore cultures. It was really cool and kind of corny, but oh well. Afterwards we went to China Town and loved it. I wish we could have stayed longer, but the ship was leaving.

So that was Singapore. I want to go back and have more time, but I will say it went pretty well for a first time visit. Next is Vietnam!!!