Photos from an English pub (sort of) and a visit to the beach
Saturday, August 13, 2005

We start out on an earlier evening, with a visit to an English pub run by a Japanese couple.  Or something like that.  It gets sort of confusing.

Yes, I had not picked up a dart in about ten years (not since the days when Dennis, Brent, and I played at Auburn all the time).  But here's a bullseye, first attempt.  Astounding.  Clearly, Tiger Beer is good for you.  I must drink more of it.

Hey, look at me, I can pretend to be halfway decent at pool.  Ha.

Back on the @#$%&* cable car.  I am not afraid of heights!  Not!!  But when I don't have the camera to keep me occupied, I start to, y'know, notice how high up we are, and how we're dangling from this little connection thing, and how these cars and cables are about as old as I am, and, well.... gaaaah.  Let's hope I'm not exposed to any other high-risk behavior on this trip...

Taking the bridge from the beach over to the breakwater-- the artificial island that protects part of Siloso Beach.  It is cool-- you climb up to the top of it...

Now, that's more like it.  We have scaled the breakwater and are standing on the big artificial rocks on the outer side of it, looking out at the Singapore Straits.  Just open water here... except, y'know, for Sumatra and Borneo and Java and New Guinea and so forth.  

At one point, two Buddhist monks in bright robes came up and walked around the breakwater, too.  That was cool.  Wish I'd gotten a photo of them.

Back on the regular beach, I head to my favorite spot:  The "New Zealand Natural Ice Cream" shop.  (Okay, favorite except maybe for the pizza place next door.)  But here is the strange thing about this ice cream place.  If you look just below "NEW," you can see the EXIT door.  The exit door that is CLOSED.  People actually come in and out it, making sure it stays closed.  'Cause, y'know, they are keeping ice cream there, and it has to stay cold, so they have the A/C on, and so forth.  But if you look at the whole photo, you will see that the OTHER SIDE OF THE SHOP HAS NO WALL!  It is open to the beach!!  All you have to do is walk around the corner there to basically be INSIDE THE SHOP!

After I figured this out, I enjoyed my ice cream from the above vantage point, while watching people entering and leaving via the door.

But of course eating ice cream at the beach is tiring work, so...

...eventually I took a nap. 

The End.