Baby Shower!!

My friend, Lydia, had a baby shower last week. Being on an island here, we go to a LOT of baby showers. Since Lydia was tired of doing the same thing at all the showers, she requested that hers be a little different.

SO, they decided to do a "country" themed shower and everyone had to come dressed up 6+ months pregnant.

Here are a bunch of us showing off our baby bumps... (although I look like I'm expecting triplets!)

Lydia is the one in the middle of this pic, so her baby bump is for real... she's expecting a little girl any day now!
And here are a couple of the girls playing blind-folded wresting (actually they were searching for clothes pins, but it looked like wrestling).

Definitely a fun baby shower! :)

More of Singapore...

We continued to do more shopping... thankfully they took us to some places with more affordable things. I love>

What can I say? I can't help myself!

After shopping, Debbie and Alvin took us to the Singapore flyer... you can see it in the background of this picture. It looks like a giant ferris wheel, but each of the "seats" is actually a capsule which hold about 15 people.

Here's a picture of the capsules in the background before we got on one...

You could get up and look around while in the capsule. It was an unbelievable view, even though it made me a little nervous to be up there.... the wheel moved at a very slow pace, so it took about 30 minutes to get all the way around.

Here's a pic of the view... you can't see much here, but Singapore has some beautiful architecture.

I have to mention that we happened to be there during the opening of the Youth Olympic Games. I'd never even heard of them, but apparently, it was the first year. This picture is of the stadium during the opening night.... wish we could have been there for more, but unfortunately all of the tickets had to be won through a lottery, so our chances of getting to any events were pretty slim. We had such a fun time in Singapore.... it was such a beautiful city! And we can't speak for all Singaporeans since Alvin and Debbie are the only ones we know, but they were unbelievably hospitable and generous to us while we were there - taking us out to dinner, shopping with us, and spending their entire weekend to show us the sights. We would have never been able to see so much of the city in 2 days without them, so we're very grateful!! :)

Singapore!!

So, in addition to our Thailand vacation, we also made a stop in Singapore for a few days... Chris had a friend in Singapore (he's in the military there, but did his training in the states with the US military and that's how they met). Our first day there, we were on our own, so we did a tour through the city and went to a bunch of shopping places that were way out of our price range...

That night our friends (Alvin and Debbie) took us out to dinner along the river. We had SO much food! And we ate all of it! Here we are with our crab...

We walked around the city a little...

And Chris and Alvin decided to try out the "Reverse Bungee"... they tried to talk me into, but there was no way that was going to happen. 1 - I get very motion sick and 2 - I just had a huge dinner.... that's recipe for disaster!!

My hubby has no fear!

We walked through a series of restaurants and shopping areas at night... they had such a fun night-life atmosphere by the river. Overall, Chris and I were very impressed with the country.... it was so clean and while not everyone there is wealthy, they seemed to have relatively no problems with poverty or crime. It was pretty much a big city feel with very few of the problems.

That night, Alvin and Debbie took us to "Chinatown" for peanut soup. Doesn't sound great, but it was really yummy! It was a peanut flavored broth with doughy globs filled with peanuts inside... kind of hard to describe, but they eat this as a dessert there...

The next morning, we went to a curry restaurant for omlette-type dishes with curry and meat (to dip them in) and delicious chocolatey drinks. (We did a lot of eating!!)

Alvin and Debbie also took us to their apartment to meet their sweet little girls... here's a picture of me with their oldest daughter, Desiree.

And of course we did more shopping... Chris looks like a kid on Christmas morning here as we shopped through 4+ stories of electronic stores.