We are here for a Singapore Sling....

Well we left Pauline and Neils after spending out last day at Rottenest Island touring around on bikes and swimming in gorgeous blue/green coves and getting our last bit of rays! It was sad to say good bye to Pauline and Neil as they had been so lovely to us since we arrived and really made us feel like we were at home. So thank you Pauline and Neil, hope you are enjoying the peace! Looking forward to seeing you when you come over next!

So we are now in Singapore and well what an end to an amazing trip!! We headed out for our first full day to see the sights, but it was torrential rain the whole day!! We managed to see a couple of temples and some shops but it was just so wet that not much was achieved! Jenny and Debbie got completely lost on the way home and spent ages trying to get a taxi to pick them up but the look of two soaking wet girls didnt really appeal so we walked around for about 30 mins getting more and more lost till one lovely little taxi man took pitty on us and let us soak his back seat!! They then find out everyone else got lost and had the same problem!!

That night Stacey, Katie, Jenny and Debbie all got ready for a night at the famous Raffles hotel, they dressed up so as to look the part and caught a cab over. The hotel was amazing, all done up in christmas decorations, just like the film Annie!!


Debbie put on her posh voice and told the waiter they were 'here for a singapore sling' and they were whisked to a table and served 4 cocktail glasses and some cashews!!

well it was so nice!!! the cashews kept getting refilled and the sling went down far to well, we are planning our own cocktail party when we get home just to have another one!Then the pianist started playing happy birthday, to seemingly noone, so Debbie waved a bit, pretended it was her birthday and lo and behold as we left the waiter told us that a gentleman at the bar had purchased a bottle of champayne for her birthday ! we ummed and ahhed wondering what to do but then decided, well we deserve a little treat at the end of our trip and just one wouldnt hurt! so we sat back down and champers was served....well.....a 200 pound bottle of Dom Perignon if you please!! Before we knew it a second bottle had arrived along with some strawberries!! The silent benefactor was obvioulsy feeling generous!!! Debbie then happened to mention that she hadnt had a birthday cake this year but actually prefers cheese so our waiter Gary descretly runs off and manages to get us a cheese platter as well!!! We love Gary!!!! He was loving it as well!! Then out of the blue Stacey gets bought a glass of red wine as well, we started to enquire about the wine (as we are now experts after visiting 2 winerys!) and it turned out the bottle Stacey was drinking from cost.....drum roll please.....$12,000 SD!!!!!! thats 4100 english big ones!!! so one glass cost 600 pounds!!!! We were on a roll!!!

By this point we started to feel a little guilty so got Gary to book us a cab, passed our thanks and went to leave, as we got outside out little cab was waiting, alongside a limo bus with flashing lights and free drinks in!!! The little porter man whispered to Katie and Debbie, 'If I were you I would take the free party bus home, all expenses paid for your birthday, and it will take you on a night tour of the city'!!!! So we ended our night with the 4 of us in this party bus with Timotae the driver taking us to all the good look out spots across the city and singing along to Crocodile Rock and Wind Beneath My Wings!! The whole evening cost us less then 20 pounds each but our private sponsor a lot more!!!! We ended up taking all the free water and coke from the bus!!! What backpackers we are!!!

Now we dont usually do things like this, its not like we turn up at posh hotels, and pretend its out birthdays everynight of the week, but its our last stop before home and we were in a celebratory mood so when you can......!!

Julie will be so jealous she missed out when we tell her!!!!

See you all soon - from ladies what have singpore slings, free champers, strawberrys, a cheese board, the most expensive wine on the planet and a free party bus home!!! What lives we lead!!
xxx