Singapore Trip Day 1

So...myself and Christopher were heading out to Singapore to go and see 'The Wiggles' in concert.  Yes, you heard correctly...'The Wiggles'!  We'd been counting off 'sleeps' for weeks and the day had finally come.  The flight was early morning, so it meant a very early start (alarm set for 5 am....groan!).

Early morning start

So we headed up to Bandar up to airport and I managed to blag my way into the First Class Lounge.  This is courtesy of my 'Gold Card' for collecting airmiles......just kind of held my thumb over the date.....

Stars for breakfast for Christopher :-)

Mind you, the annoying thing was we'd only been there 10 minutes when Christopher started to pester me to sit downstairs with everyone else.  Please can we go down...please can we?  Mum...can we go down?  He wanted to watch the planes out of the window.  So abandoning our nice comfortable armchairs and chilled fresh juices...we headed down to join the masses.

Here we are waiting for our call...

Bandar is such a small airport that it's not much of a pain sitting downstairs and we were on the plane before too long.

So once we got to Singapore Christopher really wanted to go on the MRT - Singapore's version of the underground which is very unlike the London underground in the following ways: 

• It's clean.
• It's not smelly.
• It's not crowded.
• People are generally friendly.
• It's not full of strange people :-)

Plenty of seats to be had, but Christopher likes holding on to the pole!

So we finally get to the hotel, and the room wasn't ready (we did get there at 12.30 - so fair play really).  Oh dear, room's not ready?  A thirst quenching beer in the hotel lobby seems just the thing....

Oh dear...room still not ready?  Another beer?  Why thank you...that would be lovely :-)


So eventually...room ready and we're changed and off ready to see The Wiggles. 

The theatre is in the Marina Bay Sands Complex and there is an Italian restaurant conveniently situated opposite so we settle down to wait.

Can we go in yet?

Now?

Is it time yet?

So it's finally time to go in, and Christopher is beside himself.  At one point The Wiggles come down into the audience.  We are near the front and Jeff (Chris' favourite Wiggle) notices that Christopher is wearing his purple Wiggle shirt and goes to speak to him.  'You look just like me!' he says - made Christopher's evening!  It was a good show and worth the effort of getting to Singapore :-)

Wiggle excitement!

Concert all over...time to go home

All wiggled out!