After the fabulous trip to Cambodia we returned on February 5, the first day in the two day work holiday for Chinese New Year. We took it easy February 5 looked for celebration opportunities the next day.
February 6, 2019
We took the MRT subway two stops to the vibrant Chinatown! We walked around and also stopped by the hostel on Mosque Street where Meg and her friend Holly planned to stay in late February.
Later we stopped by the Chinatown Heritage Center.
The Chinese Heritage Center was very interesting as it was a traditional Chinese “shop house” with a tailor shop and living and eating quarters for the shop owner and several working families would have lived. They had phones with narrations of many of the rooms in the 3 story building so I highly recommend it while touring Chinatown.
The evening of February 6 we met Shamus Cahill (remember him from Thanksgiving in Little India and Hong Kong?) and his parents who were visiting from the Melbourne area of Australia.
We met them at PS Cafe in Dempsey Hill and had a delightful time. We’d love to visit them in Melbourne someday. Dempsey Hill was a former British military barracks that is now home to upscale restaurants and shops.
February 8
We continued the Chinese New Year tradition by stopping by the church where they filmed the wedding in Crazy Rich Asians.
February 9
After asking Alyson from Pan Pancific Suites if she knew of any more Chinese New Year celebrations she recommended that we head to “The Float” downtown for fireworks and the River Hongbao celebration. It was something else with over 200,000 people there the night we went. It started with a big stage and food and music and all kinds of decorations and ended work some excellent fireworks
Fireworks followed – one of Susan’s favorite things to watch!
February 10
After having fought the large crowds to go downtown the night before I found out that we could have just watched them from the 15th floor of our building!
Nice but ok not quite the atmosphere of being down in the action but we continue to enjoy the view of Marina Bay Sands from our building.). The paper recalled the River Hongbao activities below.
February 12, 2019
We wrapped up the Chinese New Year festivities on February 12 where our building celebrated with the Lion Dancers who celebrated the Year of the Pig with a big show.
Here am I with my buddy as I started thinking about my diet!
That’s me ON THE RIGHT!
A couple of our fabulous staff with Alyson from the front desk on the left and Lueda from the breakfast service on the right.
That evening we met Eric and Jo from Susan’s office for some nice wine and appetizers at Robertson Quay.
End of blog for Chinese New Year. Valentines Day, Indonesian Golf snd Penang Malaysia are next! (Blog completed Tuesday April 30.)
Singapore Travel Blog 