Home From Travel

Well, I made it back from Singapore and Guam. Had a great time there and was able to spend two days seeing the sites and getting very warm and sweaty. Singapore is only about 80 miles north of the equator and stays pretty warm all the time.

The trip back was uneventful. I am still trying to acclimate back to my home time zone. Strangely enough, I never seem to have a problem going to Japan, but it kills me when I come home. This trip was just about long enough that I became used to the time zone shift, so that made it even tougher. I think another day or so and I will be adjusted back again.

The second day in Singapore was spent riding the Singapore Flyer ferris wheel (the tallest in the world currently at around 190 meters). That was very cool and the source of most of the pictures attached to this blog. The view of the skyline was impressive. The trip all the way around takes about 30 minutes and the wheel never stops moving. It is going slow enough that you board and exit while in motion. The cars are all air conditioned, thank goodness.

We also made our way through Little India and a bit of China Town. Then I ran out of gas and headed back. We never made it to the night safari so I will save that for another trip perhaps.

Yesterday was Stephanie's 20th birthday and she comes home today for spring break. That means another round of tuition and such so that is going to hurt. Yeah! It will be nice to see her for a couple of weeks. Finally looks like spring is here to stay in the great Pacific Northwest. Please, please, no more snow!

Cheers!






This is a view from the Flyer at the top of it's trip. Notice the floating soccer field in front of the colored bleachers.