Singapore!!!

We're here! We're here! After months of dreaming and planning, we made it! Wahoo!!!

Let me just say, the Singapore airport is the dead opposite of the Shanghai airport. It's truly one of the nicest airports I've ever seen. Wow. The best part? Customs took no time at all. 

We're subletting a friend's "extra" apartment they keep for business visitors. It's the apartment of Tom's stepmother's best friend's daughterm(did you follow all that?), Typhaine and her husband Fred. We got to meet Typhaine before we left as she was visiting her family in the States. She's great - a lot like her mother who I always quite liked. Typhaine and Fred and their beautiful baby Emmeline will be traveling much of our visit so we won't get to spend time with them for several weeks yet.

The apartment is a three-bedroom right smack in the middle of town, off of Orchard which is Singapore's version of Fifth Avenue. It's a lovely, fourth floor apartment with a private koi pond as you walk in the door. How Asian can that be?! The balcony overlooks the very, cool pool. There's a kitchen with granite countertops and two great bathrooms. The bathtub has the shower next to it, both enclosed by a glass door. It's brilliant! When the kids splash in the tub, the water goes down the shower drain. We have a king-sized bed as does Maisie who looks so tiny in it. We ordered Hudson a baby cot which was TINY made for an infant so we got him another "bed" which turned out to be a pack and play with a thick mattress. The problem? He can crawl in and out of it. In fact, he's spends a good half hour a day flinging himself over the rail so proud of his own athletic prowess. 

We landed at the airport at 5AM and got to the apartment at 6. I was unpacked by 7:30.

I got some stickers and decorated the walls in their room, something I thought would make them feel more at home. They both thought sticking My Little Pony and Thomas on the wall was hysterially fun. Who knew?