Mundays on Friday

We had a lot of catching up to do with Jenni and Glenn. That made getting up an Saturday and Sunday morning particularly difficult but we love having them here. They recently joined a group of friends (a number of them also from our Butterworth days) to complete the Great Ocean Walk, a one-way trail of just over 100km between Apollo Bay and the iconic Twelve Apostles near Princetown. As a result, they have recent updates on all those people as well. 

On Sunday night they joined us and a few other colleagues for a delicious meal at Little Vietnam in Paya Lebar. Jenni and Glenn had revisited Marina Bay and the Gardens while we were at work. Peter literally just walked off the plane to join us after visiting his mum in Bendigo for Mothers Day. The Mum's at work were treated to a lovely morning tea, flowers and chocolates. It was lovely but I am looking forward to celebrating with the family next year.  I did get to chat with the boys. Adrian is making the most of his first week off and Luke and Tahlia have been busy preparing and painting their new place so the new tenants can move in. There is a new mindset to every passing event these days: this time next year........ But don't worry, we are making the most of the time left here too. 

On Monday Jenni and Glenn joined us on the walk around Chinese Gardens.  We began at Boon Lay MRT and as always it was beautiful and we were very fortunate to finish just before a heavy downpour. 

After a swim in the afternoon the boys cooked the leg of lamb the Mundays brought over with them and we had a delicious roast dinner at home.  Eric had recently read a recipe about this meal prepared with 40 cloves of garlic and hadn't stopped salivating over it since. Must say we all agreed it was lovely. 

After a well earned sleep-in on Tuesday, we walked down to Prata King on Paya Lebar Rd for an Indian breakfast of roti and murtabak. Later we took to the streets and retraced two legs of the Great Race. Spies deny me the opportunity to reveal the location. We knew one leg needed some tweaking and we hadn't walked the other at all, so now we think the planning is complete, just some printing and assembling to be done. Afterwards we met up with Robert at Sque in Clarke Quay then came home to a bowl of delicious roast vegetable soup. It was heavily laced with those garlic cubes and tasted fabulous. The last of the pre-race quizzes was released this week. Since many of you have been here you might like to try it yourselves. It was called Where's Eric in Singapore? Here is just a sampler, 5 of the 20.

11th of May, our 37th wedding anniversary. Jenni and I swam in the morning while Eric and Glenn went for a walk to the Japanese Cemetery. Then we rewarded ourselves with a roast lamb sandwich to finish off that fabulous meal the boys cooked on Monday night.  It was a shame our weekend was over so fast and already we were off to work again. Those of us who are no longer working dawdled around Kallang Wave at Stadium (looking at golf apparel) and then Kampong Glam where they found some great bamboo bargains in Haji Lane (and got caught in a really heavy downpour). They revisited Zam Zams, somewhere we must also return before leaving. After work we met up at our local hawker stalls.