Singapore Day4

Ravi had office - owing to it being Monday. I graciously offered to make all of us breakfast, french toast was on the menu. I rummaged through his kitchen cabinet and used every single fancy named powder I could find :D As Sudhir and I were going to the bird park, we packed 5 of them for us to take.

We had gone through the Bird Park website to know if there were any shows that we might like to catch and found one at 11AM. So we left at 945 - guessed that would be enough time. En route we realised that the journey is taking much much longer than we expected and I was praying that we would be able to make at least one of the shows at the place. We got off from the MRT at the Jurong bird park stop and then needed to catch a bus to get to the park. Sudhir installed this app called MoovIt - which is an app that helps navigate with details of the country's public transportation. Google maps is also quite good over there - I used that instead. 

We just about entered the park at 10:55, ran through it and managed to grab seats for the High Flyers show. It was, INSANE !!!!!! They had pelicans, toucans - of multiple varieties, parakeets, parrots, ibises ... I can go on. All of them wonderfully trained to do exactly what they were asked to do !! Members of the audience held hoops and these birds actually flew through them and went back to the stage, ate from people's hands; a parakeet even SANG HAPPY BIRTHDAY, and that was not all that it was able to sing or speak !!!!

After a thrilling show we walked around the entire park. There is this enclosure of sorts where you can walk through and there are birds flying all around you, walking in front of you minding their own business !! There was this peacock and Sudhir was taking a video and talking to it in Hindi. I went up all stud-like and told it "Abbe, ankh dikha"; and what do you know !! IT OPENED IT'S FEATHERS !!!! We were like OMG this is insane man! Who would have thought !! :D I think that was the high-light of, at least, my day :)
The bird park has vultures, kites, eagles, hawks (birds of prey) and loads of pretty birds :) Read in several places at the park that there is no colour combination on a bird that you cannot imagine. 

We got done with all enclosures at around 3PM post which we decided to go to Bugis street - heaving heard so much about it. So we reached the place and noticed that it looked almost exactly like Fashion street - the only difference being that the top floor of the place was air conditioned. Yes, there were staircases at multiple points on the ground floor/street that led to an AC upstairs where different items were available. So Bugis is a place to do your trinket - souvenir shopping. Had read / heard a lot about it and I was expecting something fancy; but it was pretty much a normal place where you can buy 24 keychains for 10 SGD, 4 t-shirts for 10 SGD etc. We bought a lot of stuff to give to folks back in India and then started back home.
Met Ravi for dinner at Raffles Quay and then proceeded home. Were pretty tired from all the walking and we needed to pack - as we were headed to Sentosa for 3 days the next day !!!

I got to touch a Toucan !! Was super scared it might nip my fingers off

Raffles Quay at night :)