The week that was

On Saturday we went to the Singapore Art Gallery with Hannah and then I took Felicity to a party while Matt and Alice showed Hannah Arab Street and Little India. Tricia and Geoff arrived on Saturday afternoon, and along with Hannah, we went to the Botannical Gardens for a lovely dinner outside surrounded by rainforest. Hannah flew out early Sunday morning and then we introduced geocaching to Tricia and Geoff. We found two caches at Kallang - so a successful hunt. We very much enjoyed our visitors and trust they had a good time and will spread the word...as the old chinese sayings goes "Make happy those who are near and those who are far will come"

Monday we all had the day off for Labour Day and went to Sentosa again. This time we went to Underwater World and Dolphin Lagoon which were both fun. We all touched a live shark which was surprisingly soft and rubbery and the girls got to feed sea turtles. We had pizza and mojitos at the beach - nice way to spend a holiday.

Tuesday we had our third Salsa dance class. Our friends Jackie and Dave are doing the class too so that makes it even more fun. We are not quite ready to audition for "So you think you can dance" but we are getting better.

Wednesday was drinks by pool to farewell one of our friends from the condo, Jodie,whose moving to another condo. Yep another farewell. I'm used to it now.

Today was a special celebration for Mothers at Avondale Grammar. We were treated to a lovely breakfast and the children had made cards and bookmarks and poems. Felicity's poem went like this

There once was a mother called Lucinda Kate

Everyone agrees she is really great

The dog she would walk

for hours she would talk

And still she would never be late.

After hearing some of the other poems I think I did quite well to be described as a talkative but punctual dog walker. It could have been much worse including rhymes about fat bellies and always yelling at kids to go to bed which some mothers were the victims of.

At the assembly they showed a video of the children telling us why they loved their mums. Apparently Alice loves me because I let her have pet turtles and I don't get cross when they all die.