Haser Happenings: Singapore

The girls and I have been trying to plan a 'Girl's Weekend' for years.

Seriously. The boys always seem to have weekends or even weeks together between Father and Son's Campouts, Scouts, or Cross Country Camp, but there really aren't any 'Girl weekends or what not'....

So, before we ran out of time and my girlies move out or something we decided it was TIME!

Since it was Kayla's Birthday weekend, it made it extra special, and gave us an excuse to do something really awesome. We planned a trip to Singapore! One of the perks of living in Hong Kong is that so many neat countries are within a few hours of here, and thus the plane flights are pretty cheap too.

We left at 8:15pm on Thurs (Sept 12)

-really, 9pm as plane was delayed-

Good Bye Dinner with Daddy

Waiting for our flight! Super excited!

On the Plane and ready to go!

We got to our hotel about 2am.

We were super tired!

But, they upgraded our room (for free) to a Harbor view!

No complaints there!

The view from our balcony

Super nice!

For Breakfast we had donuts (remember HK doesn't have those).

They were decent, but STILL NOT US donuts!

Krystin was working on some AP Art project on the plane, which was very bumpy.

Her drawing is on the right, based on the left. Pretty nice indeed!

(Especially considering it was done on a dark bumpy flight!)

On Friday the 13th, during the day, we set out to explore on foot.

We came across this beautiful church. You can actually see it from our room.

The girls were enchanted with all of the details.

Did I mention Singapore is on the equator and is HOT and Humid, like always....

Yes, it is ....

The cylindrical building is our hotel, view from the church.

As we were leaving, and taking pics, Krystin pointed out how cool this view was!

A little bit of heaven and earth...

We ventured onward toward the waterfront.

Kay loved these trees.

We found a little Air conditioned Art exhibit along our journey..

Really loved the angel/unicorn one! So cute.

We made it!

Kay was so warm, she thought a quick bath was in order! (hehee)

That weekend they were preparing for the celebration of the Autumn Moon Festival.

Which, apparently, as a part of the Autumn Moon Festival (as the girls pointed out), they also celebrate Monty Python's attack bunnies! (I can't remember their names right now, darn it. Where is Logan when I need him?!)

After walking around for a few hours, taking it all in, and partially melting we went back to the hotel to literally chill and rest up for the next adventure.

Our hotel room was icy. Felt great to me, but the girls went into hibernation.

After a little while, Krystin's need to draw compelled her out of her deep rest and to the balcony for some drawing time.

That evening we set out to Singapore's uber amazing Night Safari!

There is a bus that picked us up from the Hotel. :)

As we got closer to the safari, the view out the window transformed from city streets to an array of beautiful nature scenes...

Night Safari!!

Before embarking on our safari, first thing was first!

We had to get Ben and Jerry's Ice cream!!!

Oh, how I miss ice cream shops!!!

(I know, donuts for breakfast and ice cream for dinner, yes we were having sugar withdrawal.)

The squidlings wanted to lick the bowl!

It is dark at the night safari!

The safari has a cool tram tour.

It is really amazing.

The animals are all right around you and active and awake, and you are in complete darkness.

Well, assuming people actually listen and don't take flash pictures!

We had fun exploring on foot too, since flash pics aren't allowed most of the pictures are kind of hard to see, but here are a few.

The moon was brilliant!

There was tiny free flying bat on these bananas. Was too dark to see him clearly though!

How can you NOT love the Wallabys?

They hop all around you!

One of the coolest things at this Night Zoo, is their Bat enclosure.

There were BATS all around us. You could literally reach out and touch them. You aren't allowed to, but physically it was possible and honestly no one was looking.

Krystin was very insistent we find this place, which took us a little bit.

I am very glad she did, as it was amazing! Bats are so cute, and fun to watch.

Also, they are much bigger than I realized!

These little 'mouse-dear' types of creatures were on the ground beneath them.

No space is wasted in the enclosures.

We saw so many amazing animals.

Ones that we would never have seen in the states.

We headed back to the hotel on the last bus at about 10:15pm,

and ate a small dinner before bed!

In the morning it was Kayla's Birthday!!!

Yay!!

Krystin helped blow up balloons and got a little crazy, hahahahah!

Kayla was shocked!

For breakfast we tried out a bunch of different places and just shared and sampled different things.

It was fun!

Then we headed over to the Jurong Bird Park!

It is really so beautiful there!

Yes. The Duffster was there. He loves Lories.

Well, as long as they don't POOP on him.

Krystin's arm had to be exhausted. She was feeding this shy bird for about 20 minutes.

Kayla spotted some cute yellow-bib babies, and was determined to feed them.

She was successful!

There were so many blue streak babies!

I was in HEAVEN!

Although, it did make me miss my baby all the more.

Side Note: My Indy smells like the sweetest smelling candy, and these babies did too.

Blue-streaks are completely magical!

The girls and I have a slight LOVE of the giant dinosaur birds!

Ostriches are amazingly cute!

We were able to feed this cutie!

Look at that adorable face!

The Cassowarys are pretty amazing too.

Relics of a time long since gone....

And the Rheas

And my personal favorite: the Emus!

The Jurong bird park has the Largest Waterfall AVIARY in the world....

It is truly an impressive Aviary. I am willing to bet birds are on a waiting list to get in....

No predators, tons of food, egobs of space and beauty!

There is a bridge pathway above the regular foot path, and more paths the keep going from there and it is all contained with in this aviary. Very impressive!