Thursday, March 3, 2011

Hello!

Hi everybody!

Sorry about the delay on the post, we've been moving in! Yes, we found our condo and moved in! We have a great 3 bedroom condo in Tanjong Katong (5-10min walk from Paya Lebar MRT) on the 7th floor of our building, with views over the pool, the tennis court and the city. There are 4 supermarkets within a 10min walk, a wet market with fresh food and fish really cheap, and heaps of hawker markets nearby. And we're smack bang between the CBD and Changi Airport, which is great and handy.

Besides settling in, we've also done a few touristy things. We've been to Jurassic.....i mean Jurong Bird Park. It actually felt like Jurassic Park, with all the trees and open air enclosures. The local birds and water birds just fly around, with only the rarer/unfriendly birds in aviaries. There was a big lorikeet enclosure with the feel of a butterfly house, where you could feed the birds for a small fee. Even though I don't like birds at all, I was very impressed with it. Here are a few pics of it:


These macaws were just perched inside the main entry


Me petting the parks "lucky" bunnies

Kids feeding parrots in the Lori Lodge


Statues in the African Rainforest exhibit


The Flamingo Walk

We also visited the Singapore Zoo. It has a similar lay-out to Jurong Park, with the monkeys swinging in the trees over your head. We saw a sea-lion show that was good, and as with the Bird Park, you can interact with some of the animals. We saw people feeding the giraffes and signs that advertised elephant rides. They were redoing the polar bear exhibit, so we didn't get to see them. Here are a few pics of the zoo:

These little fellas were so close, you could almost touch them!

Proboscis monkeys checking out a zoo visitor

Andrew making a monkey of himself with Proboscis monkey statues

Beautiful male white tiger

Pygmy hippo! Cute!

There were so many baboons!

Ranga!! Lol.



Cheetahs kicking back and chilling out

This giraffe was getting fed papaya by zoo visitors





This elephant was standing by itself and dancing!

Sea-Lion show


Besides the 2 zoos, I went out for a girly expat night on the town. It was pretty good, but as I'm not much of a drinker, I didn't enjoy myself as much as the other girls did. I'm having coffee with another girl next week, so hopefully that will be good. Other than that, everythings been good. We're hoping to go to the Night Safari this weekend, so I will have more pictures to post then.

Catch ya later,

xoxo Mandi