Sentosa Island

The Merlion

So I've been really lazy/busy with class lately and haven't been updating this badboy...but here we go! Thursday Brett, Darryl (new guy we met, he's from Arizona!) and I went to a place called Sentosa Island, Singapore's resort area.  Very touristy.  But its a must-see place, so we checked it out.  We took the bus (if we want to go anywhere outside of campus the bus is a necessity) to the monorail that took us to the island.  As we arrived the first thing we saw was a giant replica of the Merlion, Singapore's national 'mascot'.  Kinda like the United State's eagle.  Except the eagle is actually real.  Anyway, after we saw that we did a little hiking through the island trails and wandered upon the zipline.  We HAD to try it out, it took us right down to the beach!  So we got all suited up for the ride, took it down to the beach and continued our journey down by the water.  From there we took a bridge to the 'Southernmost Part of Continental Asia'.  It was a little island with a great view...of the ocean filled with cargo ships.  It was quite a dreary sight actually. There were TONS of ships waiting to get filled up at the shipyard; this unfortunately has taken the blue out of the water in Singapore's ocean and made it murky.  I needed to cheer up so we wandered around on the beach and threw the frisbee around for a bit (easily the best part of my day, frisbee + beach = AMAZING).  To wrap up the day we got food, ate on the beach, and headed home.  If you would like to see some more pictures, check them out here.

Zipline! (Boats in the background)