We're in Singapore!

So we've been in Singapore for 4 days now. It's very warm, but after the rubbish weather on the day we left, that is totally ok!

We got into Singapore late Tuesday after a pretty good flight. Tilda was really good. She only grumbled a little on the flight and even slept for around 3 hours. We were lucky that there was a spare seat next to us so we could put Tilda between us. Once she fell asleep (on my arm) we could put her in the bassinet. When we tried before she was asleep she didn't like it as it was pretty small. Again she was great as we made our way through customs etc..

The hotel we're staying at is nice. The pool is good and so is the breakfast:) The staff are really friendly and very helpful. And they love Tilda! Each morning at breakfast, the waitresses make a big fuss over her and go out of their way to walk past our table so they can say "hello". Tilda obliges with big smiles. Actually, Tilda has become quite the star. Whenever we go into a restaurant everyone fusses and says "hello". She is loving the attention!

We started looking for an apartment on Wednesday afternoon. School has arranged for two agents to helps us. Sharon and Rachel drove us around on Wednesday and Thursday afternoon. They were so helpful and understanding, especially when it came to Tilda. And she was a trooper as well. She didn't complain at all about getting in and out of the car as we looked at around 16 places. We saw some nice places. One in particular we liked and put an offer in for it but we appear to have missed out. Sharon and Rachel have been really proactive on our behalf and are in touch regularly to update us. It looks like we need to look at some more places in the next couple of days.

We went to the Ministry of Manpower (or MOM) to get our Employment Pass stuff sorted. It was pleasantly not traumatic as we had expected. I think this was due to our experiences in Japan & Thailand. In Japan you had to have everything perfect or they'd send you away. And you could only go at certain times/days. Once I went too late and even though I was in line, they closed for lunch! In Thailand, things were somewhat haphazard and it might ok or not. The woman who looked after us was really helpful and explained everything well. So by Wednesday next week we should have our passes.

This is a picture I took from the pool floor and put together using a cool app called Autostitch.

Later:)