Thus we decided to celebrate our funny little union by being tourists and going to the South East Asia Aquarium, since we both quite like fish, Frenchie especially, as they talk far less than I do. To get to this Aquarium, we got to go on a cable car. Cool! Have a picture:
It's me! Looking only mildly frizzy-haired, but definitely a but gimpy.
When we arrived at Sentosa, which is an island near Singapore, I had a bit of a culture shock and walked around a little dazed because as a child I didn't really go to theme parks and entire islands made up of plastic and concrete and FUN scare me a little bit. We decided to get on a free bus to go to the aquarium, and when a super friendly, over enthusiastic voice encouraged us to enjoy our time on ASIA'S FAVOURITE ISLAND!!! I stared at Frenchie, petrified, and asked to get off.
Luckily, there was a Starbucks at our alighting bus stop, since efficient money grabbing from tourists is what Starbucks is all about, and I sat, glancing furtively at everything like a small, furry, caged animal, in a corner, drinking a frappucino until I felt better.
Motivated by the promise of yet another In The World (I have previously a lot of driest/highest/largest In The Worlds in South America and do like to tick them off my list), we pushed on to the aquarium.
We had been sensible enough to book our tickets online so laughed at all the other losers who were queuing for 15-30 minutes and pranced through an interesting looking exhibition of the history of maritime trade before being told that there was yet another queue of 45 minutes to endure. Oh.
Luckily, we were in positive frappucino moods, and this only served to heighten the excitement and anticipation. By the time we finally got through the turnstiles, I lost Frenchie in a crowd, and found him, a few moments later, like this:
Frenchie really likes fish.
Even more excitement was to come, though, but to go through it verbally would be boring. Instead, have some cool pictures of our favourite things:
10 points if you can spot the cuttlefish.
These are massive. Like nightmares.
These are actually transparent, and they had a really cool light show which made them change colour. Awesome.
Like outer space!
Jellyfish ARE like aliens!
Really big, ugly grouper.
Awesome other kind of ray!
These were Frenchie's favourites. Because of the colour. Obviously.
If that wasn't all exciting enough for an anniversary, we returned home for our furniture present delivery. Now some of you might be thinking 'furniture?! What are you, sixty? Are you celebrating your diamond wedding anniversary?' which would be silly of you, because the wedding's not until December, but I appreciate that furniture doesn't scream 'young and madly in love'. When Frenchie picks it, though, it does scream 'awesome and travelly and cool'... but I forgot to take a picture of it, so you'll just have to take my word for it and wait impatiently for a picture of the anniversary furniture.
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