Friends and visitors

Orchard Central, Due to open in June. This was a hole in the ground when we arrived here.

We are almost into the sixth month of 2009 already, April and May have been very busy months for us that we hardly even have had time to think about what has been happening in our lives. Work continues to have been keeping us busy and occupied for 5 days and nights of most weeks. We have now completed Teacher Appraisals, ISO Auditing and Open Week. Just to make it even more interesting Singapore Island reached an Orange Alert level as a result of the Swine Flu Pandemic. This meant that at work we were checking the temperature of every child as they arrived.

Almost at Dhoby Gaut, looking back to Orchard Central

It was great to see Sue and Jane. Here we are wandering through Emerald Hill.

For Ruth and I this has been a really exciting time because we had a number of visitors. First of all Beth and Claudia flew out from NZ and spent a couple of weeks with us. They seemed to have a great time, we tried to spend time with them showing them some of our favourite places in Singapore. It was really good to see them and to spend the time catching up.

A weekend spent on Bintan was great for everyone.

The sunsets at the Calypso are magical.

I was very lucky to get to share my weekend at Bintan with these three Babes.

Ruth and Beth chill out at home, Beth wanted to know if it really is always this hot?

When they left we had a flying visit from Sue and her friend Jane, who are both working in KL. It was good to catch up with her for a few days. They spent most of their time during the day looking after themselves. We did enjoy catching up in the evenings and we had an interesting lunch on the day the left to go back to KL.

One of our favourite restaurants at Bintan. Kelong, it is built on stilts over the ocean.

Lloyd enjoys the sunset at The Calypso.

Good Company, Great drinks, And a beautiful sunset avery pleasant evening.

The boats on their way out to fish for the evening.

Yet another boat off to work for the evening.Meanwhile back in Singapore the boys continue swimming in the river.

Lloyd and Anna enjoy the pool at Nirwana Gardens.

And the Cocktails.

They even enjoyed getting up close and friendly with elephants.

A little celebration was called for. They do make a great couple.

Our next visit came just over a week later when Lloyd and Anna arrived to spend two weeks with us in Singapore. Besides being really good to see them again for a short while it was great to be able to share our little corner of the world with them. We sent them away to Kuching for a few days, where they enjoyed a great Kayak trip on one of the rivers. They also had a great time exploring Singapore and meeting up with us at various times to enjoy some of the many opportunities to eat out. We probably didn’t get the chance to do a lot of the things we would have liked to do with them, but we did enjoy chatting and listening to the little adventures they had while they were here. It was really great to see them.

Having had our run of visitors made us realise how much we do miss all our family and friends at home.