Singapore stopover

We left Shanghai in freezing temperatures yesterday for our 5.5 hour flight to Singapore. Our plane was one of the new Boeing 777s. As this flight wasn't the one we'd originally booked onto we were seated separately in groups of two in the same row but on opposite sides of the plane. Other than by going through the kitchen half way down the plane there was no way for us to visit each other. The staff were originally a bit annoyed with Jade for cutting through the kitchen but then when I explained to them that our family was separated and this was the only way we could see each other they were fine with it.



We had a comfortable flight and landed in Singapore at 1:30 pm to find the temperature was a humid 32C. That's a huge change from what we were used to in Shanghai and a whole 50+ degrees higher than Harbin! We are not prepared for these temperatures as we have only one or two t-shirts and no other summer clothes. I'm hopeful though that the heat will help us get rid of our coughs. Mine is still the worst, Jarrah's seems to have gone now and Jade is only coughing slightly.



On our way to the hotel we passed the Singapore flyer, Singapore's new observation wheel and the world's largest, to see that it is not operating. According to the taxi driver it has some mechanical problem which has closed it. That's a shame as we had hoped to ride in it.