Last, last day

For the sake of completeness: last full day here spent on Sentosa Island.  We took the MRT to Harbour Front and walked through -guess what?- another giant mall to a tower.  The cablecar station is on the 14th floor and is scarily high above the ground.  However, there are no stomach-churning jerks as your cabin tips over the edge into the void nor when it passes the gantry halfway over.  The views are pretty amazing- even on a dull day, as this was.
Sentosa is dedicated to entertaining the Singaporians and tourists and there are huge building projects on going even here.  We did the 2 attractions we'd prepayed for:a 3D film with interactive seats +waterand air squirted on your feet and neck etc at points in the action.  I disliked the bats flying at me which were accompanied by the said puffs of air-just like the beating of bat wings!  So, good fun in a weird way.  We were the audience- no queues anywhere.
Next was a 3D film in which the spectator is on a log of wood which swoops around etc like a roller coaster but you are safely in your seat.  We've done these before and always like them: thrills but absolutely no danger, just our kind of ride.
We then searched out the only natural entertainments on offer and walked through the remains of rain forest on the island.  The trails are sign posted with emergency call buttons and info re the plants and (non appearing) wildlife so not exactly a genuine trek.
We hit the aquarium area at the same time as several groups of very young school kids so probably didn't do the underwater tunnel full justice in our rush to escape the horrendous noise but we thought it not so impressive as the Sydney one.  We ended our time here with a walk along the back of the man-made beaches which are all immaculate and well served with cafes, clubs etc and a place making artificial waves (eat your heart out Boscombe!)  The sands were virtually empty but are apparently heaving on weekends and public holidays. 
The island and beaches are a further eg of the spirit of Sing:the citizens need beaches and somewhere to get away from the main island so...we'll reclaim land and import sand and- voila!
We took the cable car to the top of mount(?) Faber and looked at the views but there was little to detain us there as it's all restaurants and a shop so we descended to the Harbour Front and thence back to the hotel
Can't believe we did this but we had another steak meal for our last night.  I'd had satay the previous night and, although I was fine,we had had minor tummy problems earlier so decided we'd better be really sure we would be OK for the flights back home.  Anyway- it was a Hog's Breath place.  Is this the chain you mentioned, Olly?  Have to say the steak melted in the mouth though the waitress took a lot of convincing that I wanted mine rare.  Seems Aussie steaks are something special- yours included Oll.

Very, very last day:
Had a trip on the Singapore Flyer.  This is a larger, higher version of the London Eye which takes 30 mins to complete a rotation.  Cars may be hired to dine in.  In that case you get 2 rotations.  We walked back to the hotel via the underground link malls which do exactly that- they link various malls together with the MRT stations.  Naturally they are lined with more retail opportunities.  The whole system is perfect for days like today when it was raining very hard at times.

Now we're killing time at the airport.  Unfortunately Air France misinformed B on the phone this am by telling him we could drop off our baggage at any time.  We've arrived to find we have to wait 4 hrs before we can do so so we're stuck in the boring public side of Changi.  So, we've parked ourselves in a cafe and I'm doing my last posts.  Am hoping to take advantage of the famous free Wi Fi connection once we get airside.....

Yeah, the system works- why did I doubt Singapore?