I am up early and try to recover the game on the PSP. Manage to find them, but not sure how to get them to work again. We pack and leave our luggage before setting off toe China Town. Have read about a stunning old Chinese pastry shop and make the mistake to assume it is in China Town. We get off the MRT to discover that it is on the other side of the city. The lady who shares this news tells us to go across the street to find something similar there. We walk through a few food stalls at the station, cross over the street and discover a stunning market area full of stalls selling everything from chopsticks to curios.
When we get to the “Yellow Chair” restaurant, she talked about we discover it is not a pastry shop. Winsome is having serious coffee withdraw symptoms and they decide to go to their favorite Starbucks and then to Sentosa Island, whilst the two of us decide to venture a bit deeper into Chinatown. We finally discover on of the most famous, local pastry shops and buy a collection of pastries – of which we liked only one (egg pastry – like a custard cake). Back at the MRT we discover another great pastry shop (we walked right pass this one on our way in!). Luc has a Vienna rolled into white dough and then backed, whilst I have the best almond pastry.
From here we take a long MRT ride to the Science Centre stop – we actually come up above the ground and see some of the local suburbs. At the MRT we get more pastries!! It is a short walk to the Science Centre and Luc is soooo happy when we finally arrive, It must be the cheapest attraction in Singapore – S$6 only!
We are just in time for the Space Imax – which is incredible! Also great because I can sit down, rest my tired feet and chill out in the aircon.
The rest of the day is spent on running from one great exhibition to the next. Luc meets a very hyper boy – one of the few times in his life that he actually was sorry that he started chatting to someone. The little boy is completely ADHD. His nanny is a Pilipino and says that they go to the Science Centre every day. Close to 4 I finally manage to get Luc out of the Centre – into the shop. Big mistake – he wants everything and I have very little cash left. This ends up in a big tantrum, me storming out, and him scratching me because he looses his temper! I refuse to get anything more for him.
When we get to the station, he is nearly in tears and apologizes. He is hungry and we get more “Vienna pastries”. I also get 6 moon cakes seeing that it is the festival of lights this weekend.
Back in Little India we quickly pop into the brand new shopping centre right next to the famous 24 hour Mustafa Center – for which I did not have the energy. Find some great toys at great discounts.
When we get to the Mitraa, Winsome and Katie are already waiting for us. I quickly download my photos and Luc has long goodbyes to all the staff. We take lots of photos and Luc even phones Frank to say goodbye. He gets everyone’s Skype addresses. Edburt tells us he is from the Philippines! Finally we all squeeze into a taxi with all the bags.
At the airport we pay to get into the Premier Lounge. It is great – we raid the food section as we are all starving. After a shower we look and feel great and have energy to do some final shopping. A bit broke so even resist the giant Toblerone, but ends up getting a nice Chinese T-shirt. About Winsome’s shopping I will say nothing – as June might be reading this….!!!!
And now we are sitting in the lounge, waiting to board.
It was a holiday filled with sun, lots of rain, shopping, research, massages, great food (and not so great food), adventure trips, tsunamis and earthquakes (this went by unnoticed because the credit cards were working in the shopping centers!!!).
Thanx for reading our blog – hope you had a great time on holiday with us!!!!
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