It was our final day in Singapore and we had planned the whole day. So we got up early to catch out bus to head down to Orchard Road, which is where all the shopping is. As we were waiting there was a cab driver who approached us and said that he would take us to a few places where they sell electronics and such for super cheap and then take us to Orchard Rd all for $4 Singapore dollars. So me being the person I am thought that it was a good deal and that we could try to find a iTouch for me, and a new camera case for our camera. Cam was a little unsure for obvious reason, but he went along with it. So our first stop was a discount jewelry store. We didn't buy anything there. He then took us to a market in Chinatown. We found a really nice camera case there. There were also other stores in this little market. There were really nice wallets and purses made from crocodiles, ostrich, and fish skins. Way too expensive....so where this guy is coming from saying cheap was bull. So once we found the camera case we wanted to get out of there and head to Orchard Rd. So we went outside to see if we could find our driver who said he would be right outside when he dropped us off, He wasn't! So we waited a little bit and walked around for a little bit to see if we could find him. Finally after a while we pulled out our map and found the street we were on and mapped out where the tourist bus stop was and headed for that to go to Orchard Rd. We were on our way headed in what we thought was the right way, when a local man noticed we had a map and tried to help us. He sent us the wrong way.... we WERE going the right way. We should have stuck with our instinct. But we figured he would know better than us. Nope! So finally we got back on track and we found our bus stop. However we waited there for almost an hour for the bus to come. We kinda felt bad ditching that little old cab driver, but we felt he ditched us. Oh well no money for him, and we got a kick ass camera case for super cheap! It was SO hot waiting for that bus! Good thing the bus had AC on it. We finally made it to Orchard Rd!!!!! We found the Hard Rock Cafe and had lunch.
After lunch we walked down Orchard Rd just to take it all in. It is a busy place with a lot of expensive shops. I am not a wealthy person, so I didn't even venture into any of the stores. We were pretty worn out after walking up and down the strip, so we decided to head back to the hotel to have a dip in the pool. So again we waited for the bus. We finally got back to our hotel and had a swim...ahhhh... so refreshing. Afterwards we we wondered over to Fort Canning Park, which was an old military base. It was so beautiful there. The King once lived there, we saw his house. There were these stone walls with these designs on them... amazing.
After our walk around the park we had a really nice supper at Clark Quay. Then we got some ice cream on the way back to our hotel. We were both bagged from our eventful day. Plus we were headed to Australia in the morning, finally!!!!!!!
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