Caroline!

hand blog!

Our trusty sister Caroline arrived late last night on the same flight we took in.  In the morning, we got up around 6 something and waited for her to get up...she was very tired from a long plane ride.

Mims kept poking her head in every so often and coming in and flopping on the bed, probably very bored from just bumming around the house and taking long mid-day naps because she sucks at jetlag.

Jason and Caroline went running and Wesley took his new longboard for a spin on the streets of Sing Sing.  It was awfully humid and hot, but that was fully expected.  After that, mims and our aunt took us to the MRT station (mass rapid transit, subway) to top up our ez-cards so we can take all the public transportation with ease.

We took the train into town to...eat!  We went to the Food Republic because we wait to go until Caroline came.  She luvz it.

Caroline's first meal: Laksa!

(curry prawn soup with rice noodles, tofu, eggs, bean sprouts, chili, etc)

She also got rojak, which wasn't that good here, but it is really good at the Island Club

(cucumbers, fried doughy things, pineapple, radish, and peanuts in a shrimp paste)

Wesley had chicken rice.

(hainanese chicken rice, rice steamed with chicken broth and ginger and garlic and fat!, chicken, a soy sauce egg, bok choi, and chili and garlic and soup)

Jason had yong dao fu

(pick a bunch of different things like fish cake, tofu and veggies, and a kind of noodle, and then they cut them up and boil them in soup)

After lunch we walked around and saw this sweet (we think german?) pastry company that made roll things that look like kway lapis but wasn't.  

The thing rotates while baking in a rotisserie-like machine

Then they cut it up once it's baked and put them into containers

"this is best looking car be a mile...by like, 1000 times"

After Orchard Road and some shopping for a bag and a scrap book for caroline, we took the MRT to Clarke Quay.  There was a very unfortunate event that occurred when we were rushing to catch the train.  Caroline was wearing flip flops and took a little tumble on the slick MRT station floor when trying to change directions!  Wes made the train with ease, Jason had to squeeze through the door, but Caroline missed the train and had to take the next one....

fatty bruise!

the gorgeous girl fell...

on the fish statues

view of the river 

river view

For dinner, we ate at central market, which is a small food court below the central shopping center that's across the river from Clarke Quay.  By this time, we were fading and ready to go home and sleep!

Sign on the MRT...no durian!