2006-08-07 - 17:57
Partly cloudy with a chance of storms this morning. We had a meeting to go over all the letters and reports that will be due and squacking began as to how our presentations will go. Look, I'’e got until January.
My last day in Singapore I wasted the credit on my subway card and went to Little India to get henna done. Walked through the botanical gardens back toward the hotel. They had an evolution garden where they led you from the top of this rocky cliff with no vegetation to the beginnings of mosses and ferns, conifers, and finally flowering plants, complete with a rock path of changing dinosaur tracks. Thing is our hotel was on the other end of civilization. So I came out the back entrance into a construction site and had to wander around until I could find the road my hotel was on. Elaine and I took the hotel shuttle to dinner and ran into an American (which had been a rarity), Navy guy on leave.
We were having so much fun that we missed the last shuttle back and had to get a taxi. Easier said then done. Every one of them was hired. It had always been easy before. We found a free one, told him our destination and were denied. No one wants to go to the other side of civilization. Knowing only one way to relieve tension and elevate moods, I bought a Japanese chocolate bar at the 7Eleven. When we finally got a cab we asked the guy why it was so busy and why there were so many Americans on the street. He tells us 10,000 Navy men came in for a few days before they’re shipped elsewhere. And since he’s driving them he told us they all want to go either to the Hardrock Café or the steakhouse. Jiminy Cricket.
