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Saturday deliciousness
Photos of food we saw/ate on Saturday (apart from our Chinatown visit, which we'll put in a separate post)...
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Fish spa!
On Saturday, our second day of sightseeing in Singapore, we had a relaxed start to the day before venturing out for lunch, a wander past the iconic Raffles Hotel, an MRT ride across the country to visit the Qian Hu Fish Farm to experience a fish spa, and dinner at
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The rest of Gardens by the Bay
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Cloud Forest Dome at Gardens by the Bay
At Gardens by the Bay on Friday, we visited the Cloud Forest Dome — home to one of the world's tallest indoor waterfalls, pouring from a lush mountain clad with plants from around the world. Inside the mountain there were viewing platforms, theatres, art installations, etc. We loved it!
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Drama, drama, drama
Two sentences uttered today — BY THE SAME CHILD — that pretty much sum up our day... "I hate the round-the-world trip — I'd rather be at school!" "Now I remember why we're doing the round-the-world trip — seeing awesome things like this!" We started our
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Day 1 rose and thorn
We made it to Singapore!!! Sometimes at dinner we do "a rose and a thorn", which involves each person sharing a highlight and lowlight of their day. Given that it's after 11pm on a massive day of travel (Brisbane to Sydney to Singapore) and we'
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Seven kilos each... done!
After some (very) late night re-shuffles, early morning substitutions, hard decisions on socks and undies, many re-weighs and way too much mental maths for that time of day... all of our bags weigh exactly 7kg. What these photos don't show are my bulging cargo-pants pockets and the large
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No more school!!!!!!
Just a few hours ago, me (F) and J finished our last day of school!!! Now all we need to do is wait to head to the airport tomorrow morning and hopefully, get more than 1 hour of sleep when we get to Singapore, yay!!! P.S. I am also
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Thanks for that, Duolingo...
I spent the past two hours packing, weighing, re-packing and re-weighing my bag, trying to get it down to 7kg. First weigh-in of the night was 8.8kg and the last was 6.8kg, hurrah! (Basically I'm going to dress for the flights as though en route to
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Farewelling Mia...
... who has now gone off to have a big adventure of her own!
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Shoe shenanigans
When I was putting F's non-trip shoes into storage this morning, I found two identical pairs of sneakers — having not realised until then that he even had two identical pairs — and asked which ones he wanted to take on the trip. It transpired that he preferred the most
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J's first post (yes, it is)
On the trip (no, I'm not going to fall down). On the round the world trip, I am most looking forward to * Japan (every thing about it) * Things (toys books games) etc... * Skiing (definitely) * Arcades (in different languages) * Food (some of it) So you can see that I