En Route

We made it to Singapore and are spending a few beautiful, relaxing days at the Fairmont before we finish our journey with one more flight to Balikpapan tomorrow morning.  We had quite the journey to this point with delayed flights, missed connections, "almost" missed connections due to me thinking it was one hour earlier than it was (I've never been rushed down the tunnel onto a plane to quickly!) :)  Through it all, the girls were absolutely fantastic - they slept on wooden food court chairs put together into a make shift bed in the airport, played quietly with each other on the airplane, and all in all - were better than we could have ever hoped for such a long trip.
We've spent the past couple of days in the pool, napping, and walking around a bit of Singapore.  The girls are getting onto the time zone (sortof!) and tomorrow morning we leave to find out where we'll be living in Balikpapan until our house shipment arrives.  We were at dinner last night and were accosted by a Canadian working for Fairmont - apparently the Canadian accent doesn't come through this part of the world very often :)  I ended up going for a few drinks with her and her friend last night, and maybe found a couple of people to come and visit next time we're back this way!  A  good start for me :)

What I've learned so far:
1. Our blonde, blue and green eyed children are an anomaly and I think we've made it into at least 3 people's picture albums so far - everyone wants to hold them, and hug them, and kiss them, and while I'm smiling and saying how nice they are being to the girls, part of me in my head is thinking I don't know where these people have been, who they are, and what germs they have and now they're holding my child!  I'm the new spokesperson for hand sanitizer :) LOL
2. We should have sent half of what we packed in suitcases into our air shipment - but seriously, with all of the changes last minute, who knew???
3. No over-planning allowed - between house shipping dates changing, not knowing where we're living tomorrow, flights being delayed... it's enough to make every "planner" in the family half-crazy!!!  (in our case, that would be ME - I like to think that I'll be growing as a person through all of this ;)


Once we get to Balikpapan and get settled in, I'll be able to upload some more photos to show you what our new home looks like!  Hope everyone is well, we miss you and love you!!!!