This morning we snoozed again. I got up at 9:30am; an hour later than planned. Ant needed some extra convincing to wake up because he was online until 5am or some other crazy hour.
Off we went to City Square Mall for breakfast. They had stopped serving breakfast at Maccas so we settled for some congee. Ant had the century egg and shredded chicken, I was adventurous and had the frog legs. Both had a raw egg cracked into the clay bowl and then congee scooped over it. My frog legs tasted like fish, but that could be because it was served with anchovies. We ordered donuts too and they were cut up into bite sized pieces; like giant croutons!
Once done, we headed to Maccas for a cup of their yummy cold Milo SG$2.60. Then we had to race to catch the Red bus. Turns out we neededn't have hurried because it pulled up about 10minutes later. Unfortunately I had forgotten the route timetable at home or we would have strolled after that big brekkie.
First stop was the Botanical Gardens because Ant wanted to see their Orchids. The gradens have a rainforest area and another area dedicated to orchids. And why not, these floweres are gorgeous! We took lots of pictures for his dad. The humidity was stifling and soon it started to drizzle. By now it was about 3pm.
We hopped on to the Red bus again and rode a few stops to Funan Digital Centre. There, we got off and waited for the Original bus to interchange to Orchard Road. Orchard Road is a prime strip of shoppping with high end shops, malls and lots of food courts. The rain was really coming down by now so we took the opportunity to have lunch in one of the malls. I had the laksa set which included a teh. Ant had a combination of noodles, minced beef and mushroom with soup on the side. We weren't sure if he was meant to mix the soup with his noodles. Altogether our meal only cost sg$10 which was unbelievably cheap. My laksa even had about 5 blanched oysters.
After our very brief tour of Orchard Rd, we caught the City bus to Bugis Market. The market was full as usual.
We stopped by our fresh juice shop and bought a pineapple juice and a mango juice. We ended up with two pineapple juices so Ant was not amused. The drink got slimely about half way through so we threw them away. They cost sg$1 each. On the way out of the market, we bought a soursop juice for me and a lime juice for Ant - We got what we wanted because I ordered. sg$2.50 and super delish.
Unfortunately we missed the 5:27pm bus so we had to walk back to the hotel. From Bugis to Lavender, it's a nice 20minute walk. Because it had rained a little, the temperature was tolerable too.
When we arrived at reception to get our keys for the room, the staff asked if we would be checking out. We said no, check out was tomororw (Saturday). According to their records, we had only paid up until tonight so they wanted us to pay an extra night or if we were checking out, we had to pay $5 for the cost of having the room made up. We told them we had to go to our room so that we could look through our own records on Hotel Club.
Luckily both Ant and I had printed out all our itinerary's and hotel bookings. I left my hotel booking in Melb, but Ant had a copy which clearly confirmed checking out on Saturday. The staff were apologetic after double checking it on their end.
After bumming around in the room and watching some tv, (Ant using the free wireless), we went downstairs to the Lavender Food Court. There are about 12 different food shops in the one complex and all decently priced. I had the chicken rice set which was simlar to hainanese chicken and a side dish of kai lan. Only sg$5. Ant had a huge meat platter which cost sg$16. His eyes were too big for him - his stall was one of the build-your-own dishes sort of shop where they put all the ingredients out and you choose everything you want in it.
We also bought takeaway teh to kai colo the plastic bag it comes in. And we bought dessert. Longan and lotus seed for me and grass jelly and red beans for Ant. Meh.
Now we're nice and full and watching X Factor in our room!
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