A Day of Vile and Detestable Things

Friday, 21st October 2011

Well, today it was back to Mall of Asia, so Matt could swap his shoes for a bigger size, and while we were there, we shopped, and shopped and shopped some more. The magic wore off very quickly, and the most exciting things were spoiling ourselves to Krispy Kreme Donuts – very yummy! And watching the ice skating again.

Don't you just love them

Iceskating in the shopping mall

I (Sarah) found the most wonderful pair of shoes on the sale rack in a shoe shop. They were the right size and very comfortable, and very fancy with all their feathers and stuff, so you would think that I would buy them, wouldn't you, but when I showed them to Matt (big mistake) he said “what – are you a indian squaw?”, so that was the end of that. I will always remember them, our love was short lived, but it was strong. Sigh...

Matt has come down with a cold, so was feeling pretty terrible, (not that it stopped him buying another pair of shoes – yes, that's right – I have no pairs of shoes, zero, zilch, not one single pair, and he has two pairs! Something's not right here -what's going on....wahhhh, I just want to cry. I'm the one who loves shoes. Maybe I should have gone shopping without my darling husband.

Anyway, getting back to Matt not feeling well, he stayed at the hotel with the kids, while I went out with Mum and got them McDonalds for tea, brought it back, and then went out shopping with Mum. Again, it was not very successful, as we were both very tired and sick of the sight of shops – all that glitz and glamour - yuk, so after walking around and around and getting nowhere, we decided to get a pizza for tea and take it back to the hotel to share with Matt. Well, that was another big mistake – we ordered it (couldn't get the one we wanted, as they had no bacon!) and then sat in the appointed seats to wait, and wait, and wait, and wait, and wait! We could see a pizza box on the bench, looking lonely and going cold, but no one seemed to care (except us). When we eventually went and asked, they said nothing, and then went and got our cold, soggy pizza and tied some string around it and gave it to us. I asked if we could get a discount on account of it being cold, but was told “no, sorry”. Not very happy. If anyone had tried to steal my money on the way back to the hotel, they would have come off second best!

One good thing to be remembered about today was that the taxi drivers used their meters without being asked to, and didn't try to rip us off, which made us much more willing to give them a tip.

Sleep well everyone, 'cos it's another big tourist day tomorrow.