An Islander Weekend

In typical Singaporean fashion, we decided to get our money's worth from our recently acquired Sentosa Islander Family card. We visited Sentosa on both days this weekend! Woohoo, is this an overkill or what?

On Saturday, we only had time to take the Express to and from VivoCity before we had to go back for Cheryl's music class. It was just as well because it started to rain.

On Sunday, the weather was perfect. Perfect for me is NO sun, cloudy and windy... actually there were small pockets of pretty threatening dark clouds here and there. We decided to pack lunch of chicken and char siew rice and drive into Sentosa. We parked at the huge carpark at Beach Station and then we took a beach tram to Siloso Beach. Surprisingly it was not as crowded as we expected for a Sunday. We found a nice spot under some coconut trees and the kids played with sand. I just love the sand here. They imported fine white sand from Indonesia to make the beaches here in Sentosa. It's so blardy clean and fine, and because it was slightly damp from the rain recently, it was perfect for making sandcastles. I didn't manage to take any pics of my creations because ZaacZilla destroyed them as soon as we made them. Ate our packed lunches and bought some ice cream too.

We also took a walk across the beach and wooden bridge/boardwalk (see pic above). So many tourists taking photos on the rocks and boulders. We couldn't lose out, so we took many shots on the rocks too! This is TT trying to perch Isaac atop a boulder, below is the shot of the same boulder from afar. Notice a bunch of foreign workers congregating at the bottom left.

More boulder pics...



We visited an IslandLife shop and bought 3 sets of die-cast Sentosa Express model trains for the kids at $12 each (see pic below). Needless to say, the kids were delighted. Blue for Isaac, Orange for Cheryl and Purple for our neighbour Sean. We also bought an orange Sentosa bus.

By the time we left the shop, it was raining. Wanted to take the tram back to the Beach Station but the tram was full. Fortunately it stopped raining, so we trudged back on foot. Time was a little tight because we had to send Cheryl for her art class at 4pm, but we decided to hop onto the Sentosa Express anyway since they gave us free train passes when we entered Sentosa. We thought we'd just take a joyride to VivoCity and back (remember we parked at the Beach Station). Unfortunately it's not a simple case of staying put in the train at VivoCity. We were "chased out" of the train and had to exit at VivoCity and get train passes again from the counter to enter Sentosa. Bother, but no worries, we have the Islander card! *evil laughter* So wasted some time to get ourselves another set of free entry passes and boarded the Express back to Sentosa's Beach Station. Then we had to drive at Formula One speed from Sentosa to Bencoolen for Cheryl's art class. Phew, just five minutes late.

Hey and you thought this was the end of our Sentosa adventure? Think again. When we returned home after class, our neighbour Sean heard about Cheryl's Sentosa trip and wanted to go too. He was also thrilled with the purple train we got him. So after her bath, we allowed Cheryl to follow our neighbours back to Sentosa again! Yes again! They even managed to catch part of the musical fountain show while aboard the Sentosa Express. Isaac was already knocked out by dinner time, so he didn't get to go.

I now have a "collection" of at least 12 Sentosa Express passes, just a few more visits to Sentosa and we would have gotten back what we paid for the Islander card! Sentosa should ban us...