The other night we went to the world-famous Long Bar in the Raffles Hotel, where the Singapore Sling cocktail was invented in 1915.

View from outside the door, on the patio, while we waited for a seat:

Much to our surprise, the Singapore Sling costs 44 Singapore Dollars (~ $47 Canadian)!

I ordered the mocktail version, at just S$16.

It was refreshing!

They put a bag of peanuts in the shell on everyone’s table, for snacking. And then you just throw the shells on the floor!

Afterwards, we walked around, debating if the peanuts were enough supper or if we were still hungry.

We landed at a bar where they grilled meat on a stick for us to share! And quail eggs. I had the chicken wings and bacon-wrapped asparagus.

By the way, a few more observations from Singapore:

• I’ve heard sirens once. Once!
• Everyone seems to live by the fundamental principle of avoiding inconvenience to others. They are quiet and kind and clean. Everyone on the trains are orderly and we’re always the loudest ones talking.
• There are cameras *everywhere*.
• There are no visible homeless people.
• I have not seen a dog yet.
• Bathrooms are so clean and the stalls are very large and modern and the doors go to the floor.
• There are robots all over. Even in the hotel, the towels and sheets are delivered by robot:

Yesterday we went to the ArtScience Museum for their TeamLab Exhibition. We took the train there. It was less than 2km to walk, but with the humidity, we’d have been drenched with sweat by the time we were there, or rain! It rains often in the afternoons here. From the train stop, we walked through a multi-level mall that was all luxury brand stores, like Cartier, Jimmy Choo, Rolex, etc.

It was near the financial district.

There was a water lily garden around the museum! There were signs warning of otters, and to leave them be, but we didn’t spot any.

Inside the exhibit, still pictures aren’t going to capture some of the rooms! Like this one, where the flowers were growing and moving with music.

In this room, you could colour a fish, scan it, and then it would appear on the wall and swim around the room! Julie, your kids would have loved this!!!

Here’s a 7 second video what what it looked like:

In this room, you got to make a paper airplane, colour it, and then throw it into the lasers!

My first one crashed hard, but a little kid got me another one and told me to try again! Aww!

In this room, you could walk through this wooden swing structure. There was no way I wasn’t going to do this. Please, never try this if you have vertigo. Everything is swaying and the projected shapes are moving all over the floor.

I was definitely slower than my coworkers who tried it, and when the kids were all around me shaking all the wooden slats, I just had to stop and hold on. My forearms were on fire when I got all the way through it! But I was not going to surrender!

You could draw in this room too, and get your drawing on the wall to come to life!

Then we walked through the crystal room!

What a fun afternoon!

Afterwards, while we had a couple hours to rest up for supper, it poured and a big thunderstorm went though.

For supper, we had a Korean BBQ experience! I stuck to the safety of the plain grilled meats, onions, and mushrooms. It was fascinating to guess what food was what! I relied on my Chinese coworker to tell me what things were, even if I wasn’t feeling brave enough to try things that could have touched shellfish or broths.

I woke up this morning in time to hear from Jeff that the Yukon River broke back home, and my truck that I left at the airport was in a flood evacuation alert zone, so he went and rescued it for me. Whew!