Singapore

It was time to make our quarterly trip to Singapore to see my doctor and get refills on my meds. We have no trouble at all going to such a beautiful island.  We left on Thursday afternoon and arrived by dinner.  Singapore is only a two hour flight and then they are one hour ahead of us.  They are working on expanding the airport in Singapore so we were rerouted to the exit by a different direction.  Everything is so neat and orderly there, everything is done by queing up.  In other words you stand in line to wait for the taxi, your turn at the counter, etc.  Because cars are hard to come by on this little island many take either taxi's, buses, which are frequent or the subway as we in the states would call it.  Back to my story, as we qued up for the taxi ride to our friends house, I felt like I was in line for a Disneyland ride, too many people were in line so they had us go up one row and down another.  After 15 minutes we made it to our taxi and then to our friends who only live about 10 minutes from the airport. I can never get enough of the view from their 19th floor flat, and of course we had to take the lift to get up there oh and we had to put our luggage in the boot of the taxi. 

On Friday after my doctor appt our friends picked us up and showed us an area of town where many churches and ministries have opened a restaurant, convalescent home, drug and alchol rehab and are getting ready to open a home for abused and pregnant teens.  They also have a beauty shop, car repair shop and other such businesses that gives people an opportunity to work.  We have a friend who volunteers her time to teach computer skills to some of the people.  This is what the church is all about. 

Saturday afternoon Mark and I took a trip down to the beach where they have hundreds of every kind of restaurant you can imagine, they even have a boat ride down the canal.  Of course it would not be Singapore if you did not have so many different malls to choose from to shop in.  We started in one for me with more girly things and then we headed a few blocks up to the electronics mall.  It was 5 stories and had anything electronic you could want.  Along with the high prices.  The only place that got our money that day was the McDonald's we stopped in for a drink and a place to rest our weary feet.

Saturday night the same friend that volunteers her time took us out for a steamboat dinner. The owner is a good friend of hers and he gave us a lot of attention, I think she brings him a lot of bsiness. He is young but also has several other places in Singapore and even one in Australia.   It was similar to the Japanese style resturant.  She ordered and they brought plates of uncooked fish, beef and seafood and then a brooth that is set on the table and the food cooks right there.  They also have the veggies and mushrooms etc to add to the meal.  It was so good and then she ended the meal with some different desserts.  Oh and the drink was an apple, rose tea.  Very refreshng.  

Sunday we got to attend our frends church.  We always enjoy that and then we had to head back to the airport for our flight home.  Thanks again George and Joyce, we will miss your flat but look forward to your new home.