Bus again!

Well this time we got the bus we wanted and made sure we had all the right paperwork filled out in advance so we were able to make it to our bus after immigration. That was a relief. We took the bus from Singapore to Kulau Lampore and grabbed a bite to eat in a 10 story mall watching a roller coaster shoot around the mall over our heads. It is the largest indoor roller coaster in the world or so I was told. The mall was interesting but since we had a flight to catch, we only stayed long enough to eat and grab a book at the book store and we were off to the LCCT airport. Let me tell you, if you haven't been here then you don't know what ghetto airport means. After taking a high speed train and then a small bus to get here we made it only to get our tickets and wait while in the only bag check line available for a group of 20 to try and make a bag (covered in a plastic tarp and tied with plastic rope) that was apparently over weight make the weight limit. One man in the group did this by repeatedly opening, squeezing, retying and then re-weighing the bag. After no one moved or about 40 minutes and many people were verbally complaining they were about to miss their flights they opened another bag check line and we made it though just in time. Eventually we were called to to take our turn walking out to the airplane, and with no signs to distinguish which of the 3 planes was ours, we hoped we picked the right one and boarded. The flight crew told us we picked the right one and we took our seats for the quick flight to Langkawi island for a few days of rest and duty free shopping.

Singapore!

Ah Singapore. After living in Thailand for 2 years now I have heard wonderful tales about a land known as Singapore. They have shoes in your size there. You can buy cloths that will fit you there. They have Dr. Pepper and Carl's Jr. there. It is clean and does not smell there. The list goes on and on. My first impression was that it was cooler then expected, probably due to that storm that was in the area at the time. And it was quiet. We got off the bus and picked a direction to go figuring we would hit a subway line sooner or later and after asking around we did. The subway system there is nice and clean, and in many ways similar to the one in Thailand. We arrived at the house of a friends friend and made our introductions and got ready or the next day of fun at Universal Studio's Singapore.

Well that was a long and painful day of walking, but man was it a blast. The whole day was spent at Universal and we went on every ride that was open. We explored all the different areas, saw all the shows we could and almost walked out of the Monster Rock show. Man was that bad, and yes some people did walk out. We had fun though and once we made it out at the end of the day we got some snacks and headed back to the friends house. Much of the rest of the time we spent sightseeing, hunting down food we had read about or shopping. The sightseeing was nice, but we had heard so much about the food and shopping that I was really disappointed. The food was OK, but in my opinion better back in Thailand, though I did enjoy the Carl's Jr. and TGIF food. We never did find any Dr. Pepper, and the only thing I wanted to buy, a pair of shoes not sold in my size in Thailand, was completely out of stock due to some huge sale the country was just finishing. Jen was happy though. They had just about everything that she wanted and her only complaint was that we were backpacking and she didn't have enough room to buy everything she wanted. I did end up with a pair of Shrek ears though and that is something.