This morning Jo & Ky went out early with Grandma. They
biked to the beach with Grandpa’s metal detector to search for hidden treasure.
They didn’t find much – 20cents – but it was a nice trip, then the rain
started. When they got home it truly looked like they had been swimming with
their clothes on!
After getting dry, we had blueberry pancakes for breakfast.
Grandpa has been keeping us well fed at home with American foods between all
the Chinese food we eat when we’re out. Then we called home to talk to the
cousins on Christmas Day (since they’re 16hours behind). We had fun talking on
skype. It still amazes me everytime I can see and chat with people on the otherside
of the planet.
We hopped on bikes and headed to the MRT and went over to
Bugis junction (mall #12) because one of the gifts each child did get was money
to spend on something to remember Singapore by. And sadly, anytime our kids
have money, they feel like it’s burning a hole in their pocket. Thankfully, we
finally found a money changer willing to take the old, old USD $100s. (The last
3 said the bills were too old. The other change we made was I did the changing
instead of Scott. Perhaps that helped. ???) This is usually another day that I will
never go shopping (just like Black
Friday), but here, there were not thousands of returns being made, nor huge “Day
After Christmas” sales. There were some sales, but since Christmas is strictly
a retail opportunity and not really a holiday here, they were just continuing
as if Christmas hadn’t come yet. Signs still said, “get your gifts!” and
everyone was still saying Merry Christmas. (So funny that there’s so much drama
over saying that in the U.S. and here, it’s just expected – it is Christmas,
after all).
In the evening, we met up with Lawrence and Susan Tong. He
is the international director of OM and dad’s boss. They took us out for a
traditional Singaporean fruit, durian. They say you either love it or hate it.
Well, it wasn’t horrible, it was sweet, but the texture was gooey. So, I’m not
a big fan. All the kids except Sy tried it and nobody “hated” it, but nobody
loved it either.
durian (fruit) below
opened
ky gave it a thumbs down.
mall #???
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