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Singapore! For reals y’all
By jeni | July 3, 2008
We are here! Finally. Actually once we got on the Singapore Airlines flight to Seoul, it was pretty smooth sailing. Or flying. Or whatever. Singapore Airlines is awesome. The seats were incredible, so big and roomy (we were lucky and got to sit Business Class). They even fold all the way down into a bed! The flight to Seoul was about 12 hours, so we both watched movies, slept, had lunch and a Tiger Beer and even got to brush our teeth. All in all a nice flight. Once we arrived in Seoul we had to deplane and go through security again, but then we got right back on to our same seats. The flight to Singapore was another six hours, but honestly that seemed like a breeze compared to the longer flight.
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We finally arrived in Singapore at around 2:30 a.m. Wednesday morning (local time), or about 30 hours after we had left the house in Denver. Whew! We were exhausted, but luckily immigration and customs were a breeze – (I was a little nervous about the gum in my purse, because I’m wimp, but nobody said a thing), and our ride was waiting to whisk us to our new apartment.Â
Treetops is actually more like a hotel than an apartment – it’s called a serviced apartment – but I’ll let John tell you guys all about that sometime. We fell into bed exhausted, but made ourselves get up only a few hours later to acclimate to the new time and figure out our new city. We trudged out to Orchard Road, and took it all in – the people, the heat, the smells, and the shopping! There is certainly a lot of it.
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We were both dripping sweat from the heat and humidity and exhausted after our day out on the town, but we had golf to play! We were to meet John’s colleagues, many in town from China, for a golf lesson at the Marina Bay golf course, so off we went.Â
The funniest part of golfing was figuring out what to wear, because the dress code was hardcore and 90% of our clothes were packed up and impossible to find. After turning our little room upside down in an effort to find long pants, collared shirts, belts and non-slip-on rubber-soled shoes, we were ready to go. The golf lesson was fun, and honestly, I’m pretty good. John – not so much. I’m sure he’d tell you differently, but he’s not here right now so you’ll just have to take my word for it.Â
By the time we made it home after dinner last night, we were exhausted and the jet lag was beginning to set in, so we were in bed safe and sound by 10 p.m. John went to the office this morning, and I’m wasting time on the Internet when I should be unpacking our things. There’s so much more to tell you, so we’ll be back soon!Â
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July 9th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
Energy gelato?! Hells yeah. I am missing you guys real bad.