Before I start, let me tell you that today I was in bike shorts. This is not a good look but it was hot but, don’t worry, you won’t be subjected to any photos that show me below the waist. They have all been destroyed. No they haven't. And for a price you can see them.
After last night’s latish night, we didn’t get going as early as I would have liked this morning. Alan can be a little too much in ‘holiday mode’ which is fine when you’re not fighting the heat of the day. I'm on holiday, stop picking on me.
We arrived at the Jurong Bird Park at 10.30am. I had read an itinerary on the website which suggested we get on the panorail and go to the first stop, have a look around and get back on it again. Did we do that?? No, of course not. Alan ended up making us walk around the entire park before using our panorail tickets for a full loop journey before leaving. The park wasn't really all that big.
We had missed the Hawk show but made it for the Birds & Buddies show which was quite entertaining. In all, we spent 3 hours in the park.
We were happy to get into the taxi for the trip back as it was hot out there. We had another one of those crazy taxi drivers who sped along. I can’t tell you how fast he was going because he had his mobile phone mounted in front of the speedometer.
Alan ignored my findings and wanted to go in search on the only Singapore Denny’s. Even though I’d told him that it had closed long ago, he was still looking in hope. The building where it was located was pretty seedy and I was happy to get out of there. Thankfully, we were on Orchard Road and we went to a lovely Italian restaurant for lunch. Two course lunch with bread and a drink for about A$18 combined. There's a really strange part of Grange Rd, just before it turns onto Orchard Rd, where for some completely inexplicable reason the road suddenly becomes American in that the lanes are reversed and you're driving on the wrong side of the road. Not confusing at all.
We went back to the room and crashed, waking up a little later than had expected. I think we both slipped into a coma when we lay down on the bed. We then journeyed to get on the cable car to go across to Sentosa Island. After arriving we walked around there for a while, looking at the view and seeing their large Merlion. We then attended a Songs of the Sea light and pyrotechnics show. 
Alan then went on a luge ride before we headed over to the casino.
Alan had worn his jeans so he could get into the casino and, by this time, was pretty hot in them.
The photo to the right here is as close as he ended up getting to the Casino. Overseas visitors have to present their passport before being allowed in and we didn’t have them. They wouldn’t accept the Australian driver’s licence. Boo! Boooooo I say.By this stage it was already 9.15pm and we decided dinner at The Hard Rock Cafe was in order. We wandered around the entire island at least 3 times looking for the place before we finally stumbled across it just near the casino entrance where we had been earlier. Doh! We found ourselves in couple love central (being Valentine’s Day). That is except the couple sitting next to us who both were more intent on playing games on their mobile phones than enjoying their date.
Alan will more than likely mention that I was lusting after someone in the Cafe. Well, why not. He was cute, he was playing a guitar and singing me love songs … what’s not to lust after!!! Oh yes what a happy valentines day to me. Sarah wanted me to go up there and take a photo of him while the band was playing. That wouldn't have been weird at all.
After dinner we went and joined the queue at the large taxi rank. The car park under Sentosa is like a maze and watching these taxis come in and doing all the turns to get to the taxi rank, is like watching a go-kart track, and some of the bends are pretty tight.
We are now back in our hotel, thinking about packing up. We have to be out of here by 9am tomorrow to get our flight to Penang, Malaysia.
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