Canada Day in Singapore!

Or should I say 'No Canada Day in Singapore'. That's not totally accurate, as they DID have a celebration on May 19th. That's right folks, way back in May.

As the good expatriate school children that we are, Kristin and I decided to go and celebrate our great nation's 140th Birthday, Asian style. In the morning I jumped on Google frantically searching for something interesting to do. I discovered that some international teams were having some sort of Dragon Boat competition, Canadian teams included. After that we planned to watch the "Changing of the Guard" at the Presidential residence, then head somewhere for a celebratory 'white' dinner.

As per usual, nothing happened as planned. We showed up at the Dragon Boat offices, not the actual place they were racing. So no dragon boat racing. BURN #1. Still in good spirits we headed over to the Presidential residence to wait for the changing of the guard, but guess what?! Nope, not today. There was a 'special function' so the guard's won't change until next month. Excellent. BURN #2. Now I'm getting pissed off, no surprise. Trying to keep calm, we took a stroll over to the movie theatre where thankfully we got seats to Transformers! Totally corny movie, but fun on a Sunday afternoon. We have this habit of going to emotionally draining and tragic movies, so this was a pleasant change.

About the only thing that did go right was our dinner. To close off our evening, we headed over to Clark Quay, which some of you may remember me talking about in prior posts. It's basically 'Whitey heaven'. We ordered our WMF like any good Canadians on Canada Day. I had a Falafel burger (healthy) with about 2 pounds of fries (shut up). Kristin had what seemed like an entire lamb, which I helped her finish. Gracious, I know.

It was after 11p.m. by the time we finished, so we jumped on the MRT for the ride home.

A messed up day turned out allright after all.