Last day in Singapore

I slept in a little bit after having a late night the day before. When I did wake, I went for a walk to nearby Little india and did some last minute souvenir shopping. Little India was all dressed up for a "Deepavali" festival that i had apparently just missed. I tried asking a few people what it was celebrating but did not get a good answer. I know it is something to do with the temple and is celebrated with flowers and firecrackers. yes, I could just do a search and research, but I much prefer using it as a trigger to converse with people and learn the old fashioned way.

Serangoon Rd, Little India

I then made it back to my hotel, packed my belongings and checked out at about 12:30pm. My flight wasn't due to depart until 2am the next day so i had a lot of time to kill. I went to a nearby food court and had a food dilemma. There was a big queue outside a prawn soup shop, and there was a Japanese place (which i was craving) but had no customers. No customers usually signals bad food for me, but the server was pregnant and I was a little sympathetic. The salmon meal looked impressive and was very filling, but was pretty oily and I regretted not having the prawn soup. To rub salt in the wounds, the people at my table had the prawn soup and were raving on about how good it was!

Japanese cooked salmon meal with Dragonfruit juice at Lavender Foodcourt

With alot of my day left, this was planned as a spare day, and I couldn't think of anything I really wanted to do. I went onto tripadvisor to see the "must do's in Singapore, and number 3 on the list was to ride the flight simulator at the Singapore Flyer. It took me way too long to find the Singapore flyer, in my ignorance, I had no idea that the big ferris wheel thingy that I kept seeing was called the "Singapore Flyer" and my map directions led me astray.

Singapore Flyer from the base.

I get there and it wasn't cheap - $215 SGD for 45 minutes. I have no flying experience but the cockpit is an authentic interior of a Boeing 737 with a 6000 megapixel screen. I watched a short training video and away I went! I flew from Macau to Hong Kong International to the old Hong Kong international (Kai Tak). The old airport was hard, you kinda had to fly into a red and white checkerboard onto the side of a mountain and turn a hard right, then drop quickly. It isn't a wonder as to why they closed it! I then did a loop around Sydney and my time is up. It was alot of fun, but it took a long time to get my head around all the controls and was a bit overwhelming at first. Still, would recommend it!

Boeing Flight Experience boarding pass

After a walk back through Raffles, I then had dinner, it was my opportunity to try the prawn soup and it was great!. I had a last minute Mango Lassi from Little India and picked up my bags and off to the airport.