For the Chinese holiday, we went to Singapore with our friends Debora, Diego and their 3 children, to celebrate their son Arthur’s 13th birthday! The first day we arrived, it was already in the afternoon, and we had arrived a few hours earlier than the Silvas, so we met up with Ezra’s friend Stefan and his girlfriend Samantha. They took us to National Geographic exhibition that was happening at the Art Science Museum. They were displaying NG’s 50 greatest photos…
Then we walked over to a hawker center to grab some food to eat. Photos along the way…
The famous Marina Bay Sands!
The food was amazing…we started with some beef/chicken satay (which we ate too fast for me to photo)
Then we sampled some Indian food
We made it a fairly early night (back to the hotel around 11pm), so we could have an early start at Universal the next morning. We also lucked out with the weather in Singapore, it would rain every morning until about 9:15, then the sun would come out!
On our way to the park entrance…
It wasn’t as busy as we thought the park would be, which was a relief. We didn’t need to stand in ride lines for hours, just 2 minutes, tops! Of course it also helped that we purchased express line passes…
Kung Fu Panda!
Our first ride was Madagascar (like It’s a Small World at Disney), which was basically a smooth boat ride. 
Initially Alex was a little scared. He had seen some advertisements for the Halloween Fright Night, so he thought everything in the park would already have scary stuff. I think he finally relaxed after the last ride of the day 🙂
Debora and I alternated babysitting Olivia so she could enjoy some rides too
We also saw a show based on the movie Waterworld! Loved that film….
and the day finished with little Alex driving a car. You can see the whole family was thrilled about that 🙂
Run. Eat. Sleep. 