Getting ready for Singapore

This morning started with me going to the gym for a good long workout. I finished, had a shower and drove out to Ikano Power Center to pay for the Robert Rainford tickets at BBQ King. While I was all the way out there, I thought I might as well duck in for a 90-minute full body massage at The Circle. I had been so sore from golf/ gym that the massage felt fantastic if not painful as she worked out all the knots in my shoulders. I walked out of there feeling sore but in a good way.

In the Ikano mall, the KL Bird Park had set up an exhibition with a few of their birds. It was pretty neat with a mini rainforest set up inside the mall. They also had a few birds there that you could hold.

At home, I spent the rest of the afternoon deciding what to pack. Ross came home just after 4 and we caught a taxi to Sentral Station to connect with the Skybus to LCCT. It was the first time we had caught the bus and for 9 ringgit, the hour long journey wasn't too bad. Not as quick as the KLIA train but still it was pretty painless.

We arrived really early at the airport and spent some time looking around the terminal and having some dinner at Coffee Bean. As usual with Air Asia, the plane took off on time and we landed in Singapore 50 minutes later. The line at immigration was huge (see photo) and it seemed everything was slowed down due to the swine flu. I would say 30% of people in the queue were wearing face masks.

We finally got through immigration, found our bags and hopped in a taxi after explaining to the driver to take us to Somerset on Orchard. He seemed to know where he was going but he took us to a different hotel. We drove around for another 30 minutes asking night security guards and looking up the address on Ross' Blackberry before we finally found the right place. There are too many hotels, roads etc with the name Somerset in Singapore!

We checked into the apartment where they had arranged rose petals in the shape of a heart on the bed and also put petals in the bath. I always tell hotels now that we are on a romantic getaway and they usually do something - a free bottle of wine, robes, massages. Its pretty neat really :-)

We were exhausted after a long day and tumbled into bed only to be kept awake half the night by construction noise and bright neon lights from the mall across the road shining in our faces! not good!