By the numbers
29,277 steps
24.07 kms
Level of Chaos: Every toilet I go to use is being cleaned
I wanted to get moving early enough as it was cooler in the mornings, but somehow that doesn’t always work with me on this trip. Turns out this morning was actually a little cooler as it was cloudy. I was walking to the train station when I could hear thunder and it was trying to rain, and that made me walk even faster as I had sheltered walkways nearby. No sooner than I had gotten under cover that it started raining. I thought that it would have passed by the time I ended up in my next location. I was actually wrong. It was pouring at my final destination of Lakeside station in the Jurong area of Singapore. I would have explored the area a little more, but the rain made it impossible. I needed to use the loo and it was blocked off being cleaned so I thought to use the ones around a 1km away and when I got there, they too were being cleaned. I wanted to have a look around, but I was needing the loo. Back to the station and I could use them now.
I followed Google maps to where the Jurong Kranji line marker was. It was interesting walking amongst the building highrise blocks where people were living and I ended up in the middle of a park behind one of these blocks. I was happy I had chosen something easy to find as I know one would be on a hill. Next time I would do some more research in finding these types of locations and what is easy to get to. Around this time it was starting to rain again and I was getting damp, but hadn’t taken out my brolly. I walked back until I was able to get under cover again. I was hoping that I would dry out properly by the time I ended up at the next location. I had set the destination for Gardens By the Bay and I walked out of that station to bright sunlight. I hadn’t used this particular station before and I found it had taken me out to the entrance of the dam called Marina Barrage. It was supposed to work like a normal dam to keep the salt water out. I had a good show from the military aircraft that I later found were doing practice runs for next month.
After having a wander around Marina Barrage and looking at the ships that were out on the water, I headed into Gardens by the Bay to see two of the exhibitions. I had to get tickets first and instead of waiting in line, I ordered them from my phone there and then. I probably should have done it the night before as the line was pretty long when I arrived. One was Cloud Forest, which was having a dinosaur theme at the moment to do with Jurassic World movie. They had the animatronic dinosaurs including the T-Rex trying to escape, and even the Raptors, both are staples to the movies. One of the dinosaurs scared the absolute crap out of me when I got hit by a stream of water. They are called spiitters for a reason. I had been at this part of the and the usual part had not changed, the other area was the Flower Done. I paid for it so I went in and it had roses like last time, but the theme was tudor England. Nearly all the roses were the same as last year and the rest hadn’t changed. It was late afternoon by the time I returned to the hotel and half hour later I ended up back out as I was having dinner with a good friend, Dawn at the nearby shopping centre. I had tried Jollibee the night before as it was interesting, but I was able to have a steak tonight.
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