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    • sentosa

      Posted at 8:00 am by jasminedesirees, on August 25, 2014

      As I mentioned in this post, we were trying to save money in Singapore, so we turned to Groupon, where we got a great deal on tickets to the conservatories at the Gardens by the Bay, and also free tickets to the aquarium at Sentosa Island.

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      I didn’t really know what Sentosa Island was, everyone just called is Sentosa, and said that we absolutely had to go (and by everyone, I mean everyone in the tourism industry, people that live in Singapore stay far away, but we hadn’t discovered that yet) so we did.

      Sentosa Island is basically a huge tourist trap/resort with just about everything you could ever want to do all in one place. There’s a Universal Studios, a beach, an aquarium, and tons of resorts and hotels as well. Also there is a giant lion statue. for some reason.

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      We were there on a beautiful day, it was actually scorching hot out. It was so bad that I took to hiding out in the corner of a Billabong store just for the air conditioning. The other thing about Sentosa is that it is RIDICULOUSly expensive. A lot of the beach bars have signs out advertising $16 beer at happy hour, as though it’s a bargain.

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      Even though it was 4000 degrees, I wasn’t spending $16 on a beer, or $22 on a margarita, so we didn’t stay as long as we could’ve.

      The aquarium was kind of cool, we got to play with sting rays, you can pet them and feed them. I felt a bit awkward about that later, when we met up with an old classmate of mine for supper in Chinatown and we ended up eating stingray for supper.

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      I normally don’t really eat anything that swims (fish are friends, not food) but I blame the massive Tiger beers that the waitresses, dressed up like Oktoberfest hostesses, were bringing to our table in buckets.

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      After the aquarium we went to the dolphin show, which was about 25 minutes of some sea lions playing ring ross and balancing balls on their noses, and then 3 minutes of dolphin jumping.

      But the dolphins were pink at least. So that’s not nothing.

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      Posted in Singapore, travel | 2 Comments | Tagged dolphins, sentosa, Singapore, travel
    • vegas

      Posted at 4:53 pm by jasminedesirees, on June 17, 2013

      We went on our first trip with my sister and her husband a few weekends ago, we were only in Vegas for a couple of nights but we had so much fun. I hadn’t seen them since Thanksgiving so it was great to catch up, and hang out, just the four of us.

      We didn’t win any money, but we did some shopping, dancing, lots of drinking, and ate at some really cool restaurants. I even tried calamari (it’s gross) and encountered a magical chocolate fountain (it was amazing).

      Vegas has always been one of my favourite places, when I was little I always more excited to go to Vegas than Disneyland, I just loved the lights and the environment and the showgirl costumes. Now, with our family so spread out, Vegas is kind of a central place for us all to meet up and be together, so it will always have a special place in my heart, no matter how much of my money it steals.

      I am obsessed with mermaids. I will never grow out of this.
      the mermaid tank at the Silverton
      Siegfriend and Roy’s secret garden
      beatlemania
      hogs and heifers
      thousands of dollars worth of bras. seriously.
      fremont
      old school slot machines that give you actual coins, soooo much better. except his hands were black from touching all the nickels
      this guy had actual magical powers. sooo talented
      i wanted to try every single one of these
      yum
      supper at lakeside, amazing food
      Posted in family, travel | 0 Comments | Tagged dolphins, family, Las Vegas, mermaid, travel
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