Five Year Wedding Anniversary

Last weekend we celebrated our 5-year wedding anniversary.

Here our "before" photo 5 years ago taken Theo's Restaurant:

We celebrated by leaving Singapore. Not quite. We were still in Singapore, but we left the main island and spent the weekend on Sentosa Island at The Sentosa Spa and Resort. (We've discovered that Asia hotels eagerly misapply the term "Resort" to intentionally exaggerate their amenities; fortunately The Sentosa was deserving of the label.)

Even though Sentosa Island is technically part of Singapore, it feels like leaving Singapore, because going to Sentosa gets you away from all the normal activity of the city. There's a bridge to the island and you can get across by car, taxi, or bus. They also have an express monorail, and even a 1.6 kilometer cable car to Sentosa from Singapore.

We had dinner back in Singapore at the OSO Restaurant.

Here is our "after" photo 5 years later taken at OSO Restaurant:

The restaurant is on Tanjong Pagar Road. This is in an interesting area of Singapore. Located just outside of Chinatown, it is mostly filled with karaoke lounges and girly bars with blacked-out windows downstairs and massage parlors upstairs. But these are interspersed lightly with some legitimate pubs and restaurants and about a dozen wedding shops. It’s a strangely appropriate mix.