This past month Lynne Stein and Lauren Simmons came for a week-long visit – pretty impressive given that they have six kids between them, ranging in age from 4 months to 6 years old! So first of all, thank you to the husbands and grandmothers who made their trip possible.
We totally packed in the activities and made the most of our time. They toured Little India, Chinatown and the Arab quarter. They walked the entire length of the Singapore River to take in the historical sites. They had the infamous fish reflexology treatment, which involves fish nibbling at your feet to exfoliate them. (It felt like more than a nibble – I could see their little lips and mouths going crazy.) They tried everything, including Singapore’s national dish – chilli crab. I am guessing though, that the highlight for them was walking through Tekka market where a butcher was hacking up chickens with such gusto and the biggest meat cleaver I’d ever seen, spraying us with chicken wetness. Or maybe trying on dresses in Chinatown in 100 degree heat with no dressing room, standing close to guard against any peepers. Or maybe, just maybe, lying around the American Club pool doing just about nothing.
We totally packed in the activities and made the most of our time. They toured Little India, Chinatown and the Arab quarter. They walked the entire length of the Singapore River to take in the historical sites. They had the infamous fish reflexology treatment, which involves fish nibbling at your feet to exfoliate them. (It felt like more than a nibble – I could see their little lips and mouths going crazy.) They tried everything, including Singapore’s national dish – chilli crab. I am guessing though, that the highlight for them was walking through Tekka market where a butcher was hacking up chickens with such gusto and the biggest meat cleaver I’d ever seen, spraying us with chicken wetness. Or maybe trying on dresses in Chinatown in 100 degree heat with no dressing room, standing close to guard against any peepers. Or maybe, just maybe, lying around the American Club pool doing just about nothing.
We spent two nights in Chiang Mai – northern Thailand. We toured an elephant reserve and had an elephant ride. At one point the elephants got into the river and walked us straight down the middle. We visited some local tribes people, actually immigrants from China and Burma, including the long-neck tribe those female members wear the brass coils around their necks and the big-ear tribes people who wear the huge ornamentation in their ears – stretching the holes in their ears to the size of a golf ball.
And then my personal favourite, we stopped by a tiger refuge and got to roll around on the floor with 2 month old baby tigers. They were as playful as kittens and happy to snuggle up in our laps.
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