Singapore to Sweden

Yesterday John's parents left Singapore. They spent almost exactly two weeks here and time flew away. Suddenly they were gone.

After John left for work in the morning the three of us tried to fit one of the two mattresses inside our wardrobe. First one was a struggle and did not fit. Put it as a headboard instead. The second did not fit either and so we folded it and put as support for John so he could sit up and lean back in bed. Then we made plans. Since there was still quite a long list of things to see and experience I suggested to have lunch with John and see where he works. Annika has been there before but I wanted Thomas to see it too. There are some really cool buildings there - like the Sandcrawler from Star Wars (yes, that is a building designed to look like a sandcrawler but does not in reality). We met up with John and had lunch at our most common place which we ironically enough do not know the name of. John had he usual meal of spicy chicken ramen and I had my usual meal of sushi. Thomas chose another variety of ramen and Annika another variety of sushi.

After that John went back to work and Annika led us to the National University of Singapore. At Kent Ridge station we took a free bus that only circulated the school grounds and travelled to the other side of campus. There we visited the NUS Museum - unfortunately not very interesting nor completely full. There were empty and closed sections and half of it none of us understood. After a quick peek inside the National History Museum lobby (dinosaurs, plants, animals, etc.) we decided not to pay the entry-fee and took the bus back to the station.

There we split up. Thomas wanted a last look at the Botanic Gardens and Annika wanted to see Orchard Road before leaving the country. Having three stores in mind that I really wanted to inspect I accompanied Annika to Orchard. The station is inside a mall called ION and if you remember this name from an earlier post, that is the mall where John and I got lost trying to find the way out. A similar situation happened this time too. We tried to follow signs, maps and the directory but always ended up in the exact same corridor three times over. We did find the stores we were looking for, but nothing to buy inside them. When it was almost time to leave we emerged into the freedom of the outdoors and walked along the main road. Crossed the street, went back along the road, went under and then found ourselves back in the same corridor once again.

We met John by the Holland Village station having timed ourselves perfectly so that his train arrived just a few seconds after ours. Thomas was sitting outside waiting for us. We walked to a place called iSteaks and looked at it confusingly. Declining the self service restaurant we instead had our last meal at the same restaurant where we had our first. After that we continued walking in the steps of our first day - crossed the street and bought ice cream.

Then we took the MRT back because we did not have time to walk. They packed the last, leaving a little, ordered an Uber and left the apartment. It all went so very smooth and then we had our apartment back. This morning Ymir was extremely loud and wanted to cuddle so very much. We believe he wonders where they went and that he misses them - miss to wake them up early and always finding Annika's hidden earplugs.

Thank you for the visit!