I checked my grocery receipts today to check the prices of things... WOW.... they are unreal. I paid 9,95 for a bag of lettuce, 4,40 for 4 mandarins, 19,95 for a small (really small) piece of Gouda Cheese, 5,45 for a jar of Prego Pasta Sauce, 4 Dannon yogurts for 12,00!!!!, 6,55 for a very small box of cereal Natalie can eat all by herself in one sitting.
Just wanted to share that. (prices are in Singapore dollar, but still)
Natalie started school yesterday and loves it. This picture was taken right before we left to go the bus stop and as you can tell Thijs was not thrilled with the fact that Natalie was going somewhere. He wanted to go on the bus too and he also needed his own backpack! All day long he told everybody that "Natalie, schoolbus, bye bye". Her first day was great and she told me she already has a new "best friend", she just doesn't know her name anymore because its hard to pronounce, and her eyes are different too, she is from China. We get up at 630am to get ready and leave the house at 705am for a quick walk to the bus stop right outside the complex. 
Big news! We sat and sat and finally... at 718am ...Today we had an orientation at SAS (Singapore American School). Natalie is very excited and we think it will be a great experience for her. We meet her teacher next week in a one-on-one meeting. That will make her even more at ease. So far she is doing great with all the changes.
We also unpacked more boxes and organized a lot. I re-did the kitchen as I basically just threw everything in cupboards as I unpacked. Its much better now. I did get a "great" scare.... a cute little lizzard came to welcome me... well, welcome right back at ya, but I would rather NOT have you in my kitchen...... I guess they are all over the place. Too bad Natalie was not around, she could have kept him as a pet.
Colin and I sat out on the balcony tonight with a glass of Cockburn 1994 Vintage Porto (yummie!) talking about how fortunate we are to have found this place. And how great it is to have this experience. It kind of feels like we are on vacation. It's great to be here. It's all good.
We received our sea shipment yesterday! Much faster than we originally anticipated. It took them about 5 hours to bring everything from the sea container on the street, into a little truck, than they drove that into the parking garage, unloaded it into the cargo elevator up to the 5th floor and into our apartment... talk about a long haul. Today we spent most of the day unpacking. It was like Christmas. Especially the boxes containing toys, every time a box was opened the kids screamed a loud "YEAH!" or "WOW". We brought way too many toys though... the kids rooms are packed. Its a lot of work and right now our place looks like a hurricane went thru it. I can't wait to get it organized. But... that will take some time.
