Look out Singapore, here we come!

Now to continue the October saga….a lot went on so we have to break it down into a bunch of posts so that I can add pictures! While Dennis and Nancy were here, we also got to go to Singapore for four days (about 7 for them – they stayed a few extra after we left,) which was a lot of fun! We stayed on Sentosa Island, which is a resort island that is just south of the main city. Our hotel was right on the water (South China Sea) and had great facilities for the kids – nice pools, a waterslide, etc. It also had an excellent breakfast buffet – maybe one of my favorite parts of the trip?!?! In addition to the pool stuff, we went to the beach (we were surprised by all the ships and oil tankers right off the shore…it wasn’t all that beachy….there was also oil in the water – not what we expected from Singapore, where everything is pristine and there are big fines for any kind of littering at all – we didn’t let the kids chew gum at all while we were there!), to the aquarium, to a neat dolphin show with pink dolphins (really and truly pink – they are a certain breed that is born gray and turns a really pretty soft pink color as it ages), rode the monorail, cable cars that go across the bay high in the sky from the island to the city, the subway, and plenty of busses (great public transportation – all the “things that go” were Nate’s favorite part of the trip, I’m sure!), went to Chinatown and Little India, and Rick and I even got to go out to dinner one night without kids (thanks Dennis and Nancy!)

The following are a few pictures of our time in Singapore. There's a shot of the girls riding the tram ride over the bay from Sentosa Island, where we stayed, to the city. There are also a couple of shots in Chinatown - one of the whole family, one of a neat building, and above, one of me and Tim on Mosque street. The other picture was taken of Tim at a Hindu temple in Little India.