SANGRIA!

Hello all! Its our third day in Singapore! It just keeps getting better and better. Yesterday we were up early to join Len and his family for a tour through Singapore's Botanical and world renowned Orchid gardens. Len’s family has to be the cutest thing I think I’ve ever seen. His three kids have so much energy and are so willing to join in on the “big kid” activities. He has two sons Tristan and Keeton and a daughter in the middle named Emma. Emma is so willing to talk to anyone and everyone and she loves to hold your hand and give you hugs!

The gardens were breathtaking. There are more species of flora in Singapore’s botanical gardens then the entire North American continent. Stunning! I have around 80 pictures of just flowers that I will have to post at some point. The orchid is Singapore’s national flower and the garden houses some of the most beautiful flowers I have seen! After the gardens Len showed us a shopping center where we could get groceries for the best prices around. However, its still insanely expensive, 5.50 sing for a Yoplait yogurt! Crazy! He also showed us where we can get a great Indian meal for $3.00 sing! Naan is now becoming a staple of my diet! We then headed back to our beautiful pool! We laid out and played with Emma for about an hour! It’s amazing how much sun you get here. I have tan lines after an hour! Woot woot! (Don’t worry mom, I’m wearing my spf 30 everyday!) Once we had enough of the scorching sun I went for a quick run and then we got ready and met up with the entire group for our Baliwood dancing lessons! I was a little skeptical, as we all were, about this class. What the hell are we getting ourselves into? It turned out to be so fun! We learned a dance from the new Baliwood movie called “Shelia” it’s all about being sexy and bouncing all your goodies about! Fun, until Len came into videotape, then it just got a little awkward! The instructor had Sonja, one of the ladies on the trip, wear a Baliwood dancing outfit! Sonja rocked that thing out with her amazing body and dance moves! So fun! We then headed to Bodega and Tapas down the street from our apartments! The palella and tapas were amazing along with the two for ones Sangria! The other Amanda and I then finished off one of our classmates glass because she couldn’t finish it! Holy alcohol! As Amanda had stated “You can tell we are grad students when two drinks gets us wasted!” Apparently our tolerance is lowered!