Grammy and Papa Arrive for Christmas!

After weeks of counting down the days, Grammy and Papa arrived on the 23rd for 2 1/2 weeks!  I'm not sure whether the kids were more excited or Mommy.  We wanted them to see everything about our new lives here and the places we go and the things we do and eat and think are funny.  The problem was we had only three days to cram it in before we were leaving for Cambodia and Thailand- yes I know, not exactly a "rough" problem to have!

On our first day we headed to the wet market at Tiong Bahru to show them where we got our fresh fruits and vegetables (and maybe gross them out a bit with all the very fresh and funny looking meat and seafood you can get there).  We used public transportation which was adventure for them and we managed taxis, buses and MRTs while they were here.

After a quick, local lunch in one of our food halls we headed out to the Gardens By The Bay down by the marina.  These gardens include two conservatories with the first one we visited being a 2 acre Forest Dome that replicates a tropical mountain region.  It includes a cloud mountain that allows you to climb up levels into the forest and see how the plants and temperatures change.  Very cool with some amazing orchids and other plants.

The other conservatory was a 3 acre Flower Dome (the world's largest column-less glasshouse) that had been transformed into a Christmas wonderland.  The decorations definitely had an foreign Christmas spin to them but they were fun to see and the temperatures in both domes definitely made it fun to put a sweater on for a couple hours.

They are finally here!

Mastering public transportation (as long as they don't lose their cards!)

Amazing flowers

I think we were all excited to put on sweatshirts!

Many very cool statues in the domes

Hamming it up of course!

The evening ended with us eating dinner at the top of the one of the Supertrees at Indochina.  The view was wonderful and the space cool although everyone was definitely a little tired.  Grammy and Papa were impressive considering that they landed in Singapore at 1am that morning!  So excited to have them here!

The Supertrees (we ate at the top of the one in the middle!) lit up at night