We left Melaka today and we took the coach to Singapore. It only took us 4 hours to get there. Our bus driver was amusing, which when we thought about it, fit into the general theme of our trip. He really didn’t know English, but he pretended he did. No matter what we said to him he would say yes and always agree. We had loads of fun talking with him, telling him that he was on fire orasking him if he was a secret agent, stuff like that. It made our trip seem shorter than it was.

When we were near Singapore, we all had to get off the bus for immigration. We got our passports stamped and got our visas back, they even checked our bags, which took awhile and that kind of worried us because they kept looking over at us and pointing. But, we got through even though I forgot my departure card.

When we got to Singapore, we were astounded by all the advertisements for the Grand Prix. Posters and signs were everywhere! It was a little difficult to get to one of the best Singapore hotels where we had reservations due to various road closures in preparation for the race. Luckily, we made reservation well in advance, we could tell as we were checking in that the hotels were filling up quick. We heard the couple in-front of us at the front desk stating that all of the other hotels had no rooms left. They were told that our hotel might have a few rooms available, they were told to wait until the end of the day, and come back, that maybe there would be some cancellations, but that they too were booked full.

We didn’t even know when we booked that the Grand Prix was in town! If we would’ve known that, we would’ve been prepared for all the crowds and hype. So, after we got situated in our room, we decided to take an excursion outside the city, but as we were getting ready to board another bus that would take us, we caught the Grand Prix fever! We instead headed to a ticket place and managed to get tickets for the first day events starting tomorrow! Grand Prix here we come!