Ben, Sirus, Asia, Australia.: Legs Hurting

Another early start, 'cause that's the way to do things. Although waking up around 8 does mean waiting around till about 10:30 for most shops and food halls to open, but we do it anyway...we're just crazy that way. It literally took us about an hour and a half to decide where to sit down and eat. Now there are three mains reasons for this:

1. We had to wait for all the shops to open anyway so that we could get a full scope on what exactly they were offering to our taste buds.

2. There is such a vast number of food halls, restaurants and cafes that it is very close to impossible to choose where to go to eat, because you don't want to miss out on anything awesome.

3. We got lost, again, in another mall. Well actually it was sort of like 3 malls, maybe 4, I'm unsure, we were lost. Basically the Singaporese are like Prairie Dogs, they have a huge network of underground tunnels going down on around 4 different underground levels, they connect a lot of the different malls together and help you cross the busy roads etc. So we did not see sunlight for about 45 minutes whilst we were walking aimlessly back and forward through these underground streets.

Eventually we found somewhere, that neither of us really wanted to go, but our legs were already tired and it was only 11am, so we bought 2 sugar cane juices, Ben had some pastry things and I indulged in 'crispy chicken with chili, peanuts and rice'...for breakfast, it was incredible, of course.

After this we venture off to China Town, via the MRT or underground tube service as you may know it. China Town was pretty crazy loads of markets selling useless and stolen products, and not as many restaurants as we were hoping, so after seeing some temples we went back to the centre of town and decided to walk to the botanical gardens.

It was hot, and a mission to walk there, but only really because of the heat. We had to stop every few malls, just to get that refreshing, artificial ice breeze from the air conditioning units. We got some lunch too, Singapore's famous Chicken Rice, turns out it's just chicken and rice, really not all that exciting but delectable all the same.

The gardens were lovely once we finally arrived, a wide variety of different plant life and a generally really nice atmosphere. We even made friends with a Terrapin in Swan Lake and a Monitor Lizard in Symphony Lake, they were lovely guys. We only made to about half way through the gardens as they were really quite large and we were really quite hot. So we turned around walked back and walked all the way home talking about girls, films and everything ever. We swam immediately upon our return, and now Ben is asleep (he likes his afternoon naps) and we will head out to dinner soon.