Marina Bay Sands

When we first found out we were moving here I googled Singapore Images and pictures of Marina Bay Sands popped up. I wondered if I would ever be so lucky to stay there or swim in that pool.  See that big boat on top of the sky scrapers? It has a long pool with an infinity edge, that over looks Singapore. It is consistently listed as one of the top pools in the world (get it? top pool!?...because, it is on top of the buildings! ).

View from our window in Tower 1 - Gardens By The Bay - afternoon

Night time - all those lights on the horizon are boats.

Morning

Last weekend Roland attended a conference at Marina Bay Sands and Ike and I joined in for one night. We explored the hotel and had dinner at Din Tai Fung, one of my favorite Singapore restaurant chains, and then we went to the laser show in front of the hotel.

Pictures by Ike:

 There were bubbles!

 And lasers with bubbles!

 It was too exciting for some of us.

After the big bubble laser show Roland and I found a romantic spot to sit and watch the city while listening to a Singaporean big band sing Frank Sinatra (actually quite good!) and Ike went long boarding around the bay. It took him about 40 minutes to go around the whole bay. This is what the bay looks like from the top of the hotel:

We ended the night with a refreshing swim in the pool on top of the hotel. It is one of the worlds largest infinity pools (Singapore has a thing for building stuff that breaks records) and the deck it is on, is longer than the Eiffel Tower! It is quite impressive to swim to the edge and look down over the whole city. Stunning is the word. Stunning.

You can only swim in the pool if you are a guest.

Ike says next time he wants to do this: