Travel

What originally was scheduled as a 5 hour trip turned into an entire day of travel. O well, not much to do about it, we just enjoyed reading our book the whole day (although jen is becoming less and less of a fan of it as it looks like the ending wont be happy). The day started out great. We woke up, facebooked a while, got ready, and left our hotel in chinatown around 945ish. The LRT which is a monorail was right near our place so we walked there in minutes and were at the GINORMOUS bus station by 1015. We bought tickets for the 11 o clock from KL to singapore, a 5 hour trip. So we grabbed some baked goods for breakfast and a midride snack, and then went to board the bus. All was going great on the trip, sunny day, good book to read, relaxing ride. We stopped at the same place we did when we came into malaysia for the first time, but instead of buying food this time we just got out and ate what we had already bought this morning. Once back on, things were still going smooth, until around 245 when it started raining. No big deal, a little bit of rain never hurt anyone, especially on a bus. Except apparently, i dont know if there was an accident or what, but the rain GREATLY affected traffic. We literally sat in the same spot for an entire hour, moved maybe 5 miles, and did the same again. Once we got to departure station for malysia, we stayed there a good 30 minutes longer than necessary because a lot of people had trouble getting through immigration and back on the bus, like the couple in front of us in line. That same couple held us up for another hour at the immigration IN to Singapore. So when we should have been at our bustop in singapore at 430, we instead got there at 8. We got off, tired from laying around on a bus all day, and started walking towards little india. We knew we wanted to stay 1. near shopping 2. near the MRT (monorail) and 3. near the north of the city, close to the zoo and botanical gardens. After about an hour of walking we finally found a nice place for a good price, settled in, and went down the street to a little thai restaurant. They were out of Pad Thai but the noodle-chicken and noodle-pork dishes we got were just as spicy and delicious! We then walked back to our hostel, and right next to it is a bar so we went in, i got a beer, and we watched the hockey game of the TB lightning v Boston Bruins. I got an Asahi beer and Jen didn't want anything, so we just chilled there for awhile. Eventually the owner introduced himself and started talking to us about his life, ours, and stuff in singapore. He even bought jen this fruity cocktail that she LOVED. We talked for a while and he offered to show us some of the nightlife tomorrow night so if we can afford it well probably take him up on that offer! We just got back to the hostel, and are getting ready for bed. Tomorrow, were going to see the zoo which is supposed to be AWESOME so we cant wait! Goodnight!