The next day was our tour of Sentosa. We got up early and headed downstairs for breakfast in the hotel lobby. The lobby at Marina Bay Sands connects all three towers together, so it was a long walk from Tower 3 (where we were staying) all the way over to Tower 1 for breakfast. Most of the hotel guests ate breakfast at a restaurant called Rise, which had one of the largest buffet breakfasts I’ve ever been to. At $75…
The further I got into my vacation, the hotter it got. I went from wearing a thick winter coat in Japan, down to a fall jacket in Hong Kong. Finally when I hit Singapore, I had to pull out my t-shirts to fight off the heat! We woke up at 4:45 am to catch a flight to Singapore and made it to Changi before 11:00 am. The moment I stepped out of the airport I could immediately feel the humidity…
A quick entry this time to summarize my HK trip. I don’t really consider myself a tourist in HK, but I’m not quite a HK-er either, so I never really know how to write about my time there. However, I guess this still deserves its own entry. =P HK consisted of lots of yumcha (dim sum) and family dinners at home with my grandma. I don’t think I visited anywhere ‘touristy’ on this trip. The furthest I got was to Central…
Our last full day in Japan was spent strolling the streets of Kichijoji. My sister and I parted ways early morning at the hotel. She was heading off to the JE Family Club in Shibuya, while I was meeting Yuka at the Shu Uemura store in Omotesando for a makeup atelier lesson. I won’t get into too much details about the lesson, but you can read about it here if you’re interested in attending a session. (Japanese language only) …
If there were two things I learned from my experience at Tokyo Disney Sea, it would be: 1. Japanese people have an affinity to line up for just about anything, and 2. Do not ever go on a Monday when the day after is a national holiday. I’ll backtrack to the morning first. We started Monday morning off at Shinjuku Station. I had conveniently left my notebook at the hotel, which had all the directions on how to get to…