Postcards and Shopping

Singapore is a city that has found a way to build down! Everything is underground. There are shopping malls that go four stories or so above ground and then another 4 stories below...and then connect to the ones across the street. You could go for blocks and blocks and blocks underground, getting lost in the maze and not seeing the light of day. You'll enter in one location, and before you know it, be blocks away on the other side of town. Okay, I'm kidding, but only a little. They do build underground...and they are all inter-connected, so it is possible to get lost down there...but you might not end up on the other side of town. This city is all about the shopping, and my hotel is in the prime upscale shopping district, The Orchard. There's Hermes, LV, Burberry, Porsche designs...you name it...it's below ground on this street! I don't think I've walked up a flight of stairs to get into a store yet. With all this shopping, I thought finding souvenirs and postcards would be super easy. The first day I was here, I was dragging and jet-lagged, I didn't really go into the theatre. I decided I would explore a little and then just come back to the hotel and sleep when I was tired. I thought, why not go and find souvenirs for the nephews and postcards. Send them early and not have to worry about finding things to retain favoured Uncle status at the last minute. In the maze of shopping, I did not find anything one could consider a souvenir for youngsters...at least not one they'd find cool. I didn't find postcards. None, NADA, Zilch. Thankfully we had Monday off and I got to do some more exploring and found some souvenirs and postcards to send home...they'll probably get the postcards around Christmas when I get home...oh well.

I have to walk through the "mall" every day to get to and from the subway station to get to work...I never thought I would say this...but I think I'm shopped out.