After finding our first choice restaurant closed - indefinitely, we wandered around until we found a lovely little dim sum place called Dim Joy, on Keong Seik Road in Chinatown. DELICIOUS. Especially the pork buns, pancake, and the custard buns.
We mastered the Singapore subway and visited the Thian Hock Keng "Temple of Heavenly Bliss," the oldest Buddhist temple in Singapore, built by sailors to pray to Ma Po Cho, goddess of the Heavenly sages. It was rebuilt in 1841 and is on Telok Ayer Road.
The Singapore National Museum was a favorite. In addition to the air con, we enjoyed a very cool Christian LaCroix exhibit of stage costumes, including Carmen and Othello. The Singapore historical exhibit was interesting and included a fun audio tour guide.
That evening, we took a flight to Koh Samui, Thailand. While waiting to board, Arianne checked the online news and noticed that Tokyo had just confirmed its first three cases of swine flu. The passengers on the flight with the infected Canadians would be detained in quarantine for the NEXT TEN DAYS. We would have likely suffered the same fate...BULLET. DODGED.
After some really disturbing turbulence over Malaysia, we landed safely at Koh Samui's beautiful open air airport, where we endured yet another health screening. This was becoming a pattern! The son of the owner of our hotel, The Waterfront at Bhoput, met us there and drove the 4km to our sweet little B&B. Arianne was glad Wisam could understand him, because between the cockney British accent and a slight stammer, she only got about 40% of the message. Michael, our overeager driver, proceeded to share with us on arrival, every meticulous detail of the room, including the new photograph on the wall and how the makeup mirror worked. We were tired and cranky but smiled politely. A favorite moment: when he paused and asked: "Am I speaking too quickly for you?" Arianne had to hide her chuckling. When he finally left, we settled in for a good night's sleep.
Complete Thailand Pics: http://picasaweb.google.com/Arianne.Graham/Thailand#
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