Orchard Road

On our third day in Singapore we set out to explore Orchard Road - the place to go if you feel an urge to eat, people watch and SHOP your heart out! In an attempt to make the most of our first Orchard Road experience, we decided to go at the absolute "best" time - Saturday afternoon. It seemed like everyone in Singapore, both residents and tourists, were strolling down Orchard Road right along with us! Our main reason for heading to Orchard Road was to shop at Carrefour, which more or less reminds me of Wal-Mart back home. Like all major grocery stores here in Singapore, Carrefour is located inside of a mall: Plaza Singapura. The store was packed...just like Wal-Mart! :-) While walking through Carrefour, I got my very first whiff of durian fruit - it smells TERRIBLE! I can totally understand why they are not allowed to be brought onto the MRT and into many other public places. What I can't understand is why anyone would actually want to eat a durian fruit! The smell is so awful that they actually had each durian wrapped up in its own individual package...but I really don't think it helped in any way. No matter where we went in the store, I could smell them. Ick! After we finished at Carrefour, we walked all along Orchard Road. Well, at least as far as we could make it before my legs and feet got really tired. The entire strip is covered with malls. More malls than you could ever imagine...all on one street. Orchard Road is a place after my own heart! We saw everything from local merchandise to expensive name brand goods. Many of the stores were so familiar to us that at times we forgot that we were even in Singapore! We found ourselves feeling pretty tired after browsing through 6-7 malls so we decided to call it a day and head back home. Orchard Road was truly a bit of a madhouse...but a madhouse I enjoyed nonetheless! With MANY malls still left for me to check out, I'm sure I'll be back again and again!

As we headed toward Orchard Road, we found a beautiful park -- a great place to take a picture of my handsome husband!

My new life includes walking everywhere. Here I am in search of Orchard Road. At least I had a shaded path to keep me cool...or at least sort of cool!

We made it to Orchard Road!

...and here's a huge mall to prove it!

Every cross street along Orchard looked just like this - packed with people!

We found Carrefour!

Carrefour has 2 levels. You can bring your cart down the escalator and it locks in place so you don't even have to hold on to it! It's clear that Matt and I are very easily entertained :-)

Inside one of the many mega-malls that line Orchard Road. This particular mall had 6 levels!

Seeing all of the stores we're used to seeing back home made it easy to forget that we are in Singapore.

My sister-in-law, S, works at Fossil back in the USA so we took this picture specifically for her!

While walking home we came across this great view of all 3 towers at our apartment complex. Our building is on the right.