Pool shoes are a necessity around here.

The girls have all cut their feet at some point in our time here, walking between home and the pool. We usually wear our flip flops, but occasionally someone doesn't bother. That usually turns out badly.

The paths have drain grates in them. They look like part of the path, but they have a an open inch around each grate that is lined in metal. They're getting old, and rusty, and those jagged edges are usually what has cut the girls' feet.

If the girls escape the sharp edges in the exposed aggregate paths, the black wood paths get blisteringly hot, and they're known to give up some good splinters too.

MsE and MsI picked pool shoes from the very first store in the mall, right off the 50% off rack at the front too. $20 and we had 2 sets of Pool shoes. It didn't end there and somehow MsE bought 2 additional pairs of shoes, because she couldn't decide. She got one pair of dress sandals and one enclosed pair of runners. She said she needed the runners because of ants, and she's right. We closely inspected the runners to ensure that ants would not be able to get through the mesh sides before we bought them. MsI was happy to have her blue Mickey Mouse pool shoes. Mickey has become a house icon, and well, so has Sofia the First. Thank you Disney Plus.  

After our shoe shopping, we picked out Baskin Robbins ice cream and headed out outside to eat. We found a seat with a view across the water of the Universal Studios castle.

We watched the train going back and forth to Sentosa. I marvelled at how the huge Boardwalk along the water is completely empty of people. There were a few workmen along it having a smoke break, but no one walking along it. It's so empty without tourists.