Viki & Joe's Big Adventure: Thanksgiving in Singapore

Actually, Thanksgiving is not celebrated in Singapore in case you Americans forgot what the holiday is about. I won't name any names... oldest sister... but was asked what my Filipino maid does to celebrate Thanksgiving. I think I will make sure Reghan and Rylee aren't taking history lessons from her. However, due to the many Americans that do live here, we were invited over to a families house to celebrate. We did not know this family but I made an apple pie and mashed potatoes and had my wine ready to go. Then we got an email asking if anyone would be bringing wine because she needed to get some wine glasses. Red flag??? I pretty much knew from that point, that this would not be a Thanksgiving like back home. They were very gracious in having us join in their festivities and we got to eat all the yummy traditional casseroles and desserts so it was nice to celebrate and made us a little less homesick. Rylee wasn't feeling it so she started a meltdown shortly after we arrived and forced an early departure.

Personalities defined... Rylee wide awake and Reghan out.

The next day we headed to Bintan, Indonesia for our first mini vacation with the girls. Joe thought it would be good for us to get out of the condo for a couple of days plus it would be sort of a test for how the girls travel. We took a 55 minute ferry over to Indonesia and had to go through immigration. We had the girls in the Bjorn's and they did great, until Reghan got hot. She is so hot natured and we managed to be the last ones in line to go through customs. When we booked the ferry, you had the option of Emerald Class or Economy. I'm sure you can guess which one Joe said we needed to take. So as we sat with the peasants, Emerald Class got off the ferry first and were escorted directly to immigration and breezed through. Lesson learned. Luckily, Reghan wasn't going to have any of that and she started screaming because she was hot and pretty much done with this deal. One of the officers saw us with all our stuff and escorted us in front of everyone to the front of the line and cleared us. She is one smart cookie!!!!

Bintan is a beach area that we decided was similar to Mexico. Beautiful, clean beaches and blue water. It is a great, little getaway and I'm sure we'll do it again. We had a great suite that we spent a lot of time in but it was nice to be away and relaxed. The one thing we failed at was taking pictures. Here are a few of the beach while we were sitting out drinking Long Island Iced Teas and eating shrimp!