Time for fun

The kids are back at school, Merilyn and Bruce are staying but very independent visitors and so I find myself with some time on my hands. I am officially "in-between" jobs after declining my latest contract at the Australian High Commission due to an ambiguous tax situation for locally-employed Australians. If the Australian Tax Office and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade can come to a satisfactory resolution I may return to my job but in the meantime Matt says I can be his trophy wife while I ponder returning to writing.

The girls have enjoyed knitting and recorder trios with Merilyn and swims in the pool with Bruce and the adults have enjoyed a few games of Ticket to Ride in the evenings. We have explored a few attractions that Merilyn and Bruce missed last time they were here or didn't exist. We went to Sentosa on Thursday to explore Fort Siloso and met Matt for dinner there. We all enjoyed a walk from Mt Faber along Henderson Waves on Saturday before viewing some of the National Day fireworks rehearsal from our balcony in the evening. Yes they practice the fireworks every Saturday for about a month. We went to the new Art Science Museum on Sunday followed by a picnic dinner in the Botanical Gardens. The Shipwreck exhibition at the Museum was a highlight which featured the cargo of a shipwrecked 9th Century Arabic trade ship. It had rested undisturbed on the ocean floor, near an Indonesian Island, for about 1100 years until it was discovered in 1998.