Friday, March 6, 2009

Miscellaneous pictures around Singapore

Here are some different pictures that I have taken. Several are the different views from our apartment. We have had some crazy rain. The first 3 weeks we were here it rained 1 time the last 2 weeks it has rained all but 2 days. It doesn't alway rain a long time but it rains hard and gets dark quickly! There are also some pictures of the Singapore Flyer - it is the 2nd largest farris wheel in the world. Each car holds 30 people and it takes 1/2 hour to get around. We haven't ridden it yet these pictures were taken while we were driving to the Beach. The Hardee's at the beach has a drive thru - it is the first drive thru of any sort that we have seen since we got here. I almost wanted to get in the car and order from the drive thru but didn't. :)
There is a picture of a hotel where our college friend Mike stayed when he was here last week. His daughter calls it the pancake hotel so when we were driving by I had to get a photo of it. The very last picture is of HBD housing. It is housing that is subsidised by the government. There isn't any homelessness here because the government makes sure everyone has housing. There are usually 3-4 buildings in a grouping and they are all over the place - (not as many near us as we are close to downtown but as you get fuhe rout they are all over the place) They always have poles hanging straight out the windows with clothes hanging on them to dry. The ones in this picture are nicer than most and they all are painted strangely. I will try to get more pictures of other ones. The roads here are lined with trees and flowers.












































































































































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