Saturday, April 21, 2007

First Ever River Tour

Grandma from malaysia came singapore to stay, mum decided to bring her to have a tour around esplanade, cos she has only seen these 2 huge durians from tv programmes. as she couldn't really walk well, we had to find a place at esplanade for dinner, chinese food.. first thing that came to my mind was humble abode, but price is really too off budget.. so we had to settle for malan gourmet even though the whole restaurant only had 1 group of customers. true enough, the food was not worth it.
Went to the river front after dinner to check out of the river rides.. wow, they had quite a few salesman walking around asking people to take the rides, and from what i see, these people are doing a very good job, most of customers were there because of these sales people. we decided to take the bigger boat, with glass roof and aircon and cushion seats. didn't manage to get nice photos during the ride cos it was dark and the boat was moving. most photos came out a little blur.Anyway, here's the boat with "glass roof" haha .. they only have 2 small glass windows on the roof. and they have air con in the cabin be they dun switch it on.. like kena cheated.. but since grandma was happy enjoying the scenery, so we were alright with it.
Met a group of tourist from australia on board the boat, in fact the only customers on the boat were them and us, took a photo for them cos their point and shoot camera just could not capture the background with the automatic setting. i felt so like a tourist this night..

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

the boat ride really cool rite? like wat my sis said, got to see the merlion fron an angle that we never see before. haha. if u understand wat i m referring to. haha.

jx said...

yes have .. but the boat zoomed past merliion.. didn't even have time to take a few nice photos. something else that you will never see unless you are on the boat, the underside of all the bridges .. haha

Anonymous said...

yar thanks for that man. haha. anyway i tot the boat will stop there for u to take photos of the merlion? i think we took different boats ba. haha