Singapore!

Last week we spent a few days in Singapore. What a great place! Singapore is actually not a country. It's a republic with a cabinet, prime minister & a president. Had no clue where Singapore was or they type of government they had until I arrived on this side of the world... I love traveling to new places, and one thing that makes me smile is to see my passport pages filling up. These pages and the places they represent remind me that we are Christ's ambassadors. 2 Corinthians 5:20.

On this trip we were allowed to be straight-up tourists and we took advantage. God provided us with an amazing place to stay. So thankful for a family of Christ followers that we are connected to through our church. They were out of town during our visit, but allowed us to stay in their house. Such an affirmation of this Scripture. "And he (Jesus) said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself." Matthew 22:37-39

We were there a total of 2 full days and we went to the Singapore Zoo one day and Universal Studios the next. We also ate really great food too! Here are some photos of our trip...

None of these three animals were in cages. When you walked up to them, they did not look real! Especially the bats. 

This orangutan was asking for some sugar cane. He was right above our heads. Very cool!

I was also just hanging out at the zoo.

I come all the way to Singapore and find a guy wearing an Auburn shirt! He had this puzzled look on his face because he is from Switzerland and had no clue about Auburn University. I told him that it was his destiny! It all made sense after this picture was taken. He may have been a little drunk too... War Eagle!!

In front of Universal Studios Singapore

This cracked me up. They have a Jurassic Park ride that is a lot like Thunder River at Six Flags Over Georgia. Apparently Asians do not want to get wet on these types of rides so they were selling ponchos for the equivalent of $2 dollars a piece! How funny is that? 

I'm not always a fan of inside jokes, but this is for my friends at State Farm. Miss you guys! This was in the Shrek portion of Universal Studios.

We had chili crab our last night there. It was really good. They brought us a crab seasoned with pepper to try as well. 

Singapore at night.

This was a nice place to walk at night. Several nice restaurants and coffee shops along this thoroughfare. It had these tall things that looked like mushrooms or fake palm trees to block any rain or sun. 

This is a peach danish from a restaurant called "BreadTalk." It was amazing! It reminded me of a peach muffin from O'henry's coffee shop back at home. I was saddened to find out that "BreadTalk" has not made its way to the United States. We should look into a franchise...

Yes you are reading this correctly... It is $1,000 Sing dollars (approx $800 US) fine if you are caught riding your bike on the sidewalk here. They have tee shirts everywhere that say, "Singapore, a "fine" city." ("Fine" has two different meanings there.) They have also outlawed chewing gum in Singapore. They don't sell it anywhere and you are fined if caught smuggling or chewing gum. 

As you can see, we covered a lot of Singapore in the short couple of days that we were there. Can't say enough about how great of a place it is. As I travel to new places I am finding out just how a large a world that we live in. God has created so many great things for us to enjoy! I hope that everyone gets a chance to get outside and explore new things.