We have returned! Our trip home was amazing and it was so great to see family, friends, and of course the Milo Man...
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| Reunited at last! |
I can now prove the "expat 10" to be a fair statement. After indulging in all the foods that we haven't been able to eat we both found our pants to be a bit tighter then normal. I also found my suitcase to be bursting at the seams after some very successful shopping trips. The timing of our trip could not have been better as all summer cloths were on sale. Poor Nate was stuck lugging around my giant suitcase for me :) The flight was the typical misery. I don't think I will ever get used to 30 hours of flights. On the plus side I was able to fall asleep for a few hours on our last flight.
We are still trying to adjust to the time change, but hopefully we will be back to normal soon. I find it takes about a week to shake the jet lag. We did the big "no no" the other day and fell asleep at 4 pm till 9 pm so since then we have been really off schedule. Last night we were both awake at 3 am, which some of you might have noticed from my late night pinteresting.
A few things have changed around Sentosa. It now has it's very own grocery store.... AHHHHH!!!!! I almost fell over the other day when I saw a cold storage on Sentosa. Nate and I did a quick celebration dance.. well really I danced he gave me a high five. I apparently need to leave more often. I got so excited I had to take a picture of it. I often chat about the strange selection of eggs they have here so I decided to take a few pics of them as well. The brown "fuzzy" ones are actually century eggs, they are unlike any other egg as they have a brown yolk and rather bluish looking gelatin. I saw them once at one of Nate's work dinners and I stayed away. When it comes to food I tend to stay in my comfort zone.
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| Grocery Store! |
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| Brown Fuzzy Eggs |
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| Quail Eggs.. an essential in any diet |
The Cold Storage is a much more westernized and the one on Sentosa seems to be particularly catered to the expats. It is nice to have a grocery store that reminds me more of a "typical" grocery store. This is what you are more likely to see in a grocery store..
After we got back and unpacked all of our groceries we heard some serious airplanes flying over head. We quickly ran outside and got to witness the Flag Fly by. During the month of July Singapore celebrates National Flag month and on every Saturday at 6:42 pm 6 F16s do a fly by doing this really impressive formation. Then 2 helicopters escort a chinook that holds an 80 foot Singapore flag. It is quite a site to see and hear. Nate busted out our new fancy camera and was able to take some good pics.
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| You can just see the flag in the distance |
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| Helicopters escorting the Chinook |
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| Chinook with the Singapore Flag |
