Singapore and Detour to Honk Kong

After leaving Bali we flew into Singapore for a few days, which was a very impressive city! The people were extremely friendly, everywhere was noticably clean, there was amazing food, a fun night life and overall it was just a great place to explore. We stayed in Little India in a really nice hostel. We loved all the Indian food we had, which neither of us had really ever had back at home. The first day we wandered around the city. We went to see a temple that had a huge, massive Buddha in it which was cool and just wandered around checking out the city.
The next day we went to the Singapore Zoo. It was an awesome zoo-they allowed you to get so much closer to all the animals than they do at home. We finally got to see Kangaroos, too (nevermind the month we spent in Australia, searching for them with no luck. )
We went out that night to a really fun bar/club area. However, we quickly found out that a beer was about $13-definitely not on the backpacker budget! So, being the budget girls we are haha, we headed to 7-11 and bought beer there instead haha It was great though because you can wander the streets with open containers so we just cruised around with our beers and then headed back into the bars. It ended up being a really fun night out! Our last day in Singapore we headed to Sentosa Island. Basically, it felt like Disney created a beach! It's hard to explain; it was really pretty and there were rides on the beach and everything seemed kind of man-made. When we both called home to tell our moms we were planning on detouring a little and flying from Singapore up to Honk Kong and back down to Vietnam (so we could fly on their United passes and not have to pay) almost simaltaneously both of our moms said "why don't you stay in Hong Kong a few days, it's such a great city!?" So we took their word for it and decided to throw in one more country to the mix and check out Hong Kong. We were really glad we listened to them because it was such an awesome city! The skyline at night was absoultely incredible, as was the food and shopping. Although, our hostel was pretty horrible. It was small and dirty and just not nice at all (it's the fifth floor of the picture of that gross-looking building below). We went out to watch the laser/light show they put on every night on the skyline. We ended up taking a ferry across the harbor and stumbled upon a really fun stip or bars. There were tons of people and it's great because everyone spills out from the bars into the street and it's like a massive block party. They even have servers who take your drink order from the middle of the street, it's amazing!
Of course of all times, though, we were here in our gross hostel when Shanna got the flu-or something Asian that made her sick. So she spent the next day in the dirty hostel and Britt explored the city while she was asleep, going to a nightmarket and spending way too much money without another voice of reason! All in all, a really cool city!