Singapore

Well for those of you who have been waiting with bated breath. . . we made it to Singapore! Yes the flight was very very long, but we did it. Spencer was a trooper watching endless movies, Marianne even slept 5/14 hours of the long flight, we won't talk about the other 8 hours.


We have been in a hotel this week, but our shipment with all of our things arrived on Monday and we have been traveling about 45 min out to our apartment each day to unload and move in. Tonight we are leaving our hotel to go sleep in our own house which will be a first in about 8 weeks- so we are excited. But we will most likely not have internet for about a week or at least it will be shotty until we get it installed.

Everything has been fine we really like our apartment - a video tour to come- it has a some great pools including a children's pool and playground and our own personal Mall next door that has restaurants the MRT (subway), Library, Playground.

One thing that has been a pain is that we have to have an Employment pass, and Dependent pass to get bank accounts, cell phones, and we couldn't get an appointment until today so we should have that next week so that should be good.

The kids are getting used to traveling by bus and metro adn so are we. The weather hasn't been too bad, hot and humid but not too hot and very humid.

The other thing that is funny here is they use the English Vernacular so words like: Rubish, boot, bonnet, tissue, trousers, ect. . .

So here is me trying to use the correct vernacular this morning:

"Spencer please don't wipe your hand on your trousers use the tissue."


If I said "Spencer please don't wipe your hand on your pants use a napkin" it would mean: "Spencer please don't wipe your hand on your underware use a femine hygiene product." So yea kind of important to try to use the right words.


We kid of like it as it reminds us of the summer we spent in Cambridge, England when we were first married.


The Warren - our apartment

Singapore Skyline