Sunday, glorious Sunday

Sometimes our Sundays are a bit slow, which can be just what’s needed, but this was not one of those weeks, so Sunday got started nice and early, and we definitely made the most of it!

            Not only was every item of laundry done, and the flat cleaned from top to bottom, and the shopping for next week done, but this was all ticked off the list well before lunchtime, leaving just enough time for a quick 30 minute swim before getting ready to go out for our afternoon adventure.

A grey, drizzly day down at East Coast Park

There was a threat of rain in the air, so if we were going to go anywhere, we had to make the decision quickly. Often a Sunday afternoon could be passed quite nicely down at Sentosa, where the beach and lovely drinks in the sun can make you feel like you’re a million miles away from the city, but today we opted to head east instead, to East Coast Park, a lovely green space on the seafront, quite close to the airport.

Puppies!

Our new buddy

Our first port of call was the only dog café in Singapore. That’s right, a dog café. In the past I went to cat café, which is a fairly typical thing now – they even have one in London. It started because people living crammed in cities can’t always have their own pets, so the idea of the cat café is that you go and have a coffee, read a book and get a squish with a cat if one of those that lives in the café takes a shining to you. I went to the Singaporean interpretation of this, and it was really disappointing. It was hairy, gross and a little bit dull. I didn’t hold out much hope for the dog café, but I was definitely going to try it out as soon as I got the chance!

            Rather than pretending that you’re in the café for the fabulous coffee, this place knew that you wanted to sit on the floor and feed the dogs treats, so that’s exactly what we did. There were plenty of gross little ‘toy’ sized creatures that the locals got all over excited about, but Nick and I quickly selected our favourites, and then spent the next 30 minutes of so feeding them treats and grabbing cuddles whenever we could lure them close enough.

            Yes, it was incredibly random, but it was great fun! Plus, it’s been a long time since I’ve been anywhere with a dog to squish, so it was totally worth the effort!

            Dogs cuddled, fed and abandoned, we then made our way over to the local mini-golf indoors course for a round of comedy putting efforts, surrounding by children and harassed looking dads who were clearly put in charge for the day while their wives and helpers took the afternoon off.

Working out the best plan of attack

I would like to say that all my golf lessons paid off and that I was on or under par on every hole. Sadly, as you can see from my complete failure of a scorecard, that was not the case. In my very poor defence, I didn’t have a class on putting, but I have to admit that it was a shaming performance on my part!

Focus, pure focus 

Still, another good way to pass some time during the first rain that Singapore has seen in weeks. Plus it filled the time perfectly, and once we had got a cab back to our flat it was time to make a lovely veggie dinner to share with Liv when she popped over to visit, and then it was time for a glorious early night. The perfect end to a rather lovely Sunday! 

Golfing fail!