Sentosa!

Today was, surprise, another busy day. Because I'm a teenager there was no physical way for it to start before 12 noon. We took a taxi to the cable car stop and rode in a beautiful cable car to Sentosa, which is basically Singapore's playground. It has Universal Studios (which we didn't go to), museums, aquariums, a casino, hotels... anything you can think of, it has. My parents and I are super cool and ended up spending most of the day in an aquarium. There were lots of really interesting fish and massive stingrays- the video I intend to post tomorrow will show all of that. I was surprised by how interactive the aquarium was- you could touch fish in certain areas, feed rays and even feed sharks. We also attended a dolphin/sea lion show but naturally it got rained to an early finish. Anyone else noticing a pattern of, "we got there, it rained"?
Afterwards we wandered around towards the massive Merlion of Sentosa, which is like 30 something meters tall. Lots of the island was decked out for Halloween (including the inside of the Merlion) so we couldn't go inside without paying extra. Halloween on Sentosa is just more gory than in the US. I think the US relies more on surprise scaring people as well as some gore, but based on the posters all around Sentosa, gore is pretty normal here- I mean twin "schoolgirls" that were clearly dead with an eye missing and... I'll stop. It was pretty nasty. Perhaps I have a low tolerance for that sort of thing- but if I was a mother of a small child, I'd have my hand over my child's eyes!
We ended up at this shopping mall on the mainland to eat dinner, I forget what it's called but it was spectacular. The mall was, at least. In terms of food, I've had better spaghetti and meatballs. Those meatballs tasted sort of... deep fried? Whatever. It was a really fun day. Tomorrow is a Halloween party in our apartment building, I'm still trying to throw my "haunted doll" costume together. There will be pictures!