Merriest Christmas part 2

Day 2

Day 2 started with buffet breakfast in the hotel. Yup, buffet... which means PG moment for me na naman! :)

you know it's gonna be a good day when it's starts with this sight :) (1 cookie-point!)

After breakfast, we waited for the shuttle bus to arrive in the hotel. The shuttle bus took us to the harbor for the Cheng Ho Cruise.

The Cheng Ho Cruise Ship

The beautiful ceiling art inside the ship...and the even more beautiful girlfriend (2 cookie-points!)

The cruise took about 2.5 hours, which includes a 30-minute stop-over at Kusu Island (Tortoise Island)

Kusu Island

The Kusu Island Pose :))

The boys and girls of Kusu Island

The girlfriend poses with the turtles... lucky 'tards!

Alin, alin, alin ang naiba, isipin kung alin ang naiba...

After the cruise, we went to Suntec City to have lunch at Swensen's





After lunch, we headed to the Build-a-Bear Workshop, also in Suntec City. We made bear-versions of ourselves, complete with 10-second voice messages. (keso alert!!!)

Tin and Tina Bear. Teka, nakakalito... who's who? hihihi...

Dressing-up Andy Bear and Tina Bear

After we got our respective bears, we went to the Esplanade to take some "tourist" shots.

Tin, me, and the Giant Durian (a.k.a the Esplanade)

We walked towards the Merlion but saw that there were too many people, so we opted to just see it from afar... There's always a next time, and I don't think Merlie will be going anywhere some time soon. :)

After that, we went back to the hotel to rest for awhile and drop some of our stuff, including Andy and Tina. After some time, we went ahead and took a bus to the mall capital of Singapore: Orchard Road!

We bought some souvenirs found on the basement level of Lucky Plaza, one of the malls along Orchard Road. Lucky Plaza, or "LP" as some Pinoys call it, which also stands for "Little Philippines", houses a lot of Pinoy stores, restaurants, and remittance centers. So if you want to hear a lot of people talking in Tagalog (or other Philippine dialects), this is the place to go!

Anyway, going back...

Orchard Road, as always, was full of people. Especially this season, since it's fully decorated with big-ass Christmas decors.







While walking along Orchard, we saw several ice cream vendors. Obviously, we had to buy some, for experience's sake. (ok, fine, I admit, I just wanted to eat ice cream!!!)

Singapore's version of "dirty" ice cream and my "don't mess with my food" look.

One thing peculiar about Singapore is that it's supposed to be a "conservative" country, and yet, there are so many sex shops! One of the more popular ones is along Orchard Road. The House of Condom.

Aha! Huli ka! :))

Still walking along Orchard, we found some vendors selling clip-on mini Santa hats. I just couldn't resist not buying, in spite of the fact that the thing costs 5SGD each! huwwwaaaaat?!?! That's one full lunch!?!

I'm obviously not very happy being caught wearing a clip...

After getting some complaints from our feet due to over-walking, we decided to take a cab back to the hotel and grab a late dinner at the 24-hour Kopitiam near the hotel.

The Kopitiam is Singapore's version of the food court. It houses several cuisines from most of Singapore's major races: Chinese, Malay, and Indian. Some have Indonesian, Thai, Japanese and Korean aswell.

For dinner, we opted for some Thai food. (one of my favorites!)

The official (and gorgeous) food model (3 cookie-points!)

Thai dinner: pineapple fried rice, mango salad, seafood tom yum noodles, and some beef dish whose name I've already forgotten (memory gap!)

We walked back to the hotel with full stomachs, ending the day once again with food!

End of Day 2 :)