We spent the morning at the Singapore Botanical Gardens, where we toured their amazing orchid garden and I must say, I took some photographs that may just rival the good Reverand Doctor - I look forward to sharing them with him. We walked a boardwalk through the native flora and fauna, but whereas that is prairie grasses where I'm from, here it was full-fledged tropical forest. Tall and beautiful. The city has no charge for the gardens, and we enjoyed noticing that they had received funding from the Shaw Foundation linked to the Missouri Botanical Gardens. The gardens were full of families out for a walk with their kids on bikes and roller blades, pulling leashed dogs behind them. L-- took it at her own pace and enjoyed all of the sites. S-- watched everything from the comforts of her father's back.
Next we taxied to another hawker center. This time the Newton Street hawker center, just down the road from Orchard Road, Singapore's most famous road, much akin to Chicago's Magnificent Mile of shopping. In the Singapore nanny state, street vendors require the same level of regulation as any other restaurant and are gathered together in hawker centers. Singapore street food is known to be its best and its cheapest, so we sought out hawker centers for most of our meals.
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