Today we stopped in Singapore for 12 hours on the way back to LA. We spent the day touring the city. I am totally in love with this place. The people are incredibly friendly, the city is clean and beautiful. Even the customs official offers you a sweet from the bowl on her desk.

We caught the free shuttle into the center of town and walked around. We saw the Arabic district, the Indian district, the main shopping area (can't remember the name now) but it's awesome and puts Rodeo Drive to shame.

They currently have an IT Exp on at the convention center and entrance was free today so we checked that out. The gadgets were awesome but so was the crowd. Olympus has just come out with this incredible little 7 megapixel digital camera that they were demo'ing. It's waterproof, shockproof, crushproof and even freezeproof. And just to prove it they put it in a freezer, got someone in the audience to stand on it with their full weight and bounce, and drop it from shoulder height - and of course submerge it. It still worked perfectly. Sells for about $500 US. I ALMOST bought it but managed....to....resist. 

After an hour we escaped out of there and back to the airport where I'm writing this now.

Tomorrow we're off to Tokyo and we have 12 hours there too where we plan to do the same thing and explore the city. I've been warned by those in the know that it may take that long to get in and out of the city.

Mark. & Kerry.