Food Slings at the Raffles Hotel Feb 27, 2020 with my Mother In Law, may have been my favorite of our adventures. We left the kids at home with a babysitter and headed to the famous Raffles Hotel.
COVID19 Social Distancing Log - Day 3 Day 3: I reorganized our Lobby (a task deferred long enough); and took out the recycling (a task I avoid as long as possible).
Haw Par Villa We visited Haw Paw Villa at the end of February for the first time. I'd been hearing about this free outside garden that shows the morality tales of Buddhism in statue vignettes, sometimes in grotesque detail.
COVID19 Thoughts on the New Year Here's a post in the spirit of April Fools Day, although this is not a joke...I never got around to publishing my "Happy New Year" Post, but I thought you might enjoy seeing how I was feeling as 2020 started out.
COVID19 Gardens by the Bay Still Surprises Back at the end of February Jonathan's Mom came to stay with us. Jonathan had to work, but the first place us girls shared with her was Garden's by the Bay.
COVID19 Social Distancing - Day 1 We're taking the new Social Distancing directive seriously in our house.
COVID19 DORSCON Brown? I saw a friend call this stage, "DORSCON Brown." Singapore seems to be sitting somewhere between DORSCON levels Orange and Red.
Nature The Other Side of the Botanic Gardens Glen Eagle Hospital, where MsC was being treated for her stitches, is right near the Botanic Gardens. After MsC's follow up appointment, the 2 of us took a side trip there.
COVID19 A&E - Accident and Emergency We got to see how they're screening for Coronavirus at the door of the hospitals, and no we were not there because of the virus.
Food Super Loco Dinner We hit up Super Loco Customs House. Seeing as how 6 pm is was soooo early for dinner in Singapore, we got a table right on the patio on the pier over the river.
Nature The Frog Pond Last week, MsE's nature class headed to the frog pond. The took nets and buckets and caught tadpoles.
COVID19 DORSCON Orange Yesterday, Singapore increased it's DORSCON (Disease Outbreak Response System Condition) Level to Orange...and everyone freaked out.
Sentosa Sentosa's Empty Wuhan's Coronavirus has people staying home in Singapore. We had a family day on Sunday, and noticed a distinct lack of crowds on Sentosa Island.
COVID19 Wuhan's Coronavirus It is here. We have 7 cases to date of Coronavirus in Singapore. All 7 came directly in from Wuhan either before they were quarantined or before the travelers were showing symptoms. 50
Moving to Singapore Pool Day We've had some quite hot and sunny afternoons lately so we decided to have a pool day. It is very hard to believe that this is January and we are not on vacation.
Holidays CNY Decorations Being Year of the Rat, I could not resist all of the Mickey Mouse things I've been seeing.
Nature Orange Tree, Banana Tree The girls unearthed an orange seed while having snack by the pool this morning. They ran off to find somewhere to plant it. They chose a reasonably empty garden plot. The plot did
Moving to Singapore Complaint #2 I have one major complaint about Singapore. Two complaints if you count that "Strangers Touching My Child Thing", but ignoring that for a moment, my major complaint is....
Universal Studios Universal Alone I was going to head to Universal Studios with at least one child, but they were all grumpy so I went alone!
Universal Studios Universal 2019 Visits I think our Universal Studio Passes are well worth the money, but I was curious how many times we've used them so far.
