We're a little weary but we have arrived safe and sound in Singapore.
Our Vancouver to Hong Kong flight (14 hours) was late getting in and we ended up just missing our connecting flight to Singapore. Fortunately there was another flight departing two hours later, which meant we arrived at our hostel at 1 am local time........9 am in Calgary which meant a total of 24 hours from our initial departure from the Calgary airport. We didn't get much sleep on any of the 3 flights but we did take some jet lag prevention tablets along the way and we felt remarkably good today. With a late morning start we managed to walk around 4 different areas of the city.......Chinatown (bustling with New Year's just over 2 weeks away), the Riverwalk area (bars and restaurants galore right beside the Singapore River), City Centre (financial hub, gov't buildings and the famous Raffles Hotel nearby) and finally Orchard Road (major shopping district).........well over 10 km's in all. They have a great underground metro system here (so we've been told) but our legs needed some exercise after all the sitting on our trip over so we will check it out tomorrow. The Zoo and a hike are on the agenda. The weather is in the 25C (low) to 30C (high) range for the entire week so that may start to slow us down but right now we are full of excitement and anticipation for the journey that has just started. And Singapore is truly a beautiful city, and very safe, so we are taking advantage of the opportunity to spend almost the entire day outside.
The only problem so far has been with the internet. We had no access until late tonight and I am quite sure there are still some lingering problems.......I just checked the hockey scores and it indicated that Russia beat Canada in the World Junior semi-final.......that can't be right can it?
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