The Day We Lived Like Dell Stock Was At $57

May 19 - Singapore

We're all entitled to a little splurge every once in a while, right? Well, this was definitely our day. We headed back to Singapore early and checked into our suite at Singapore's nicest hotel, the Raffles. It is an old colonial building with a stunning lobby and fabulous rooms. We arrived around 11am and our room wasn't ready yet so we had a couple of Singapore's signature "Singapore Sling" drinks on the house. (Don't worry, Mom, they were very weak.) Then we were shown to our amazing suite complete with four-poster bed and huge veranda. There was fresh fruit and roses in the room and we had our very own butler to attend to our every need!

After we got settled in we took a walk around the nearby waterfront. We had lunch and then headed to Chinatown to visit our old friend, Jerome. He is an antiques dealer and has a beautiful showroom full of cool old furniture from China. When we lived in Singapore we bought a few pieces from him and one of our regrets over the past few years is that we hadn't bought more before we left. Well, we weren't going to make that mistake twice! So a couple hours later we left the store with our credit card smoking (stock's at $57, right??) and feeling very pleased with our purchases. We got some very nice furniture pieces and also an old porcelain "double happiness" ginger jar with the lid intact, which is hard to find. My favorite thing is the child's barber stool...call me crazy but it's one of the coolest antiques I have ever seen.

That evening we were still living it up so we went to the bar on the 72nd floor of the Swissotel to take in the city. The lights were very pretty and we enjoyed the views before we set off for our favorite restaurant in Singapore, Lawry's the Prime Rib. Yeah, I know this isn't exactly local cuisine but it was by far our favorite place to eat in Singapore when we lived there. It was sooooo good. And who cares if we ate 5 times as much red meat as we should...we were leaving for India the next day and you can't eat cow there! Ahhh, it was a great day - one of the best ever.

May 20 - Singapore

We spent the next morning lounging around the room, eating breakfast on the veranda in our big robes and cute slippers. We ate lunch at the deli at the Raffles, which is where we used to sneak off for long lunches when we were having a bad day at work (there were a lot of those). Then I spent a couple hours at the rooftop pool while Matt chilled in the room. We had late check-out so were able to stick around until just a few hours before our flight. We checked out at 3pm, did a little last minute shopping and then headed to the airport for our flight to Delhi.

The flight was delayed getting into Delhi due to a huge back-up at their airport but was otherwise uneventful. I was sad it was our last SQ flight, I still wanted to play more Tetris and Hangman! We arrived until the hotel around 12:30am and met up with Rob and Ilsa. It was great to see them and who would have guessed we'd be traveling through India with them...it was very cool that it worked out.