The beach in Singapore!!!

Tanjong Beach, Sentosa - Saturday, November 21, 2009

You'd think that because we live at 1 degree north of the equator that we'd go to the beach all the time. This is not the case because Singapore's beaches are not very good. However, there's a place here called Sentosa (it's kinda the Disneyland of Singapore) where the beaches are pretty nice. So, on Saturday we went to our ward beach party there. Mike planned this whole party since he's our ward activities committee leader and he always makes everything fun so we knew that it had to be good. As expected, it was really fun!

One of the activities he planned was a Body Building competition. Here's Carson showing off his muscles in the competition. So as not to keep you in suspense I'll tell you now that Carson was the first place winner of the body building competition! He got a nice gold medal for that too.



Jack was the third place winner of the body building competition. Just look at that six pack!







Here's Sammy having a swim in the water at the beach...



This photo shows the kids from our ward playing some relay games in the sand. You can see Mike and Sammy standing there watching and I am in the background with a red rash guard.



The last photo is of Bailey and her friend Madyson goofing around with Madyson's dad.



There was also a swim competition for the adults which Mike and I participated in. We had to run into the water, swim over to a small island, run and touch a big rock and swim back to the other side. I swallowed lots of warm, salty water...yummy!

It's the rainy season from now until January so the rain came down really hard 3 different times while we were there. Some people took shelter in a covered area nearby and some just kept on playing on the beach like it was no big deal. You really can't let the rain stop you from doing anything because it rains pretty much everyday! The rain was actually nice because it was not so sweltering HOT like it usually is here.

Sammy went to a Fear Factor birthday party before the beach party so she had 2 fun parties in one day!

We saw the new roller coaster that is being built next door to Sentosa; where the new Universal Studios site is. That opens up in 2010 so that will bring a lot more tourism to Singapore.

We love you Singapore, lah!

Halloween 2009

The rainy season hit Singapore hard this week. We've had hard core thunderstorms with lightning and massive amounts of rain the past few days. Halloween looked like it could be a complete washout but somehow the lightning and thunder remained just in the distance of our "Little America" on Halloween night. It was a great sidekick for the vampires and werewolves out but not the little ones who were a little scared. It did rain for a bit but not hard enough to keep the hard core trick-or-treaters (like Bailey) indoors.

We continued our tradition of inviting several families over for soups, cornbread and pies. Somehow the number of families about doubles on Halloween night though. We had over 20 people in our small living room at one point while 20 people were in the pool or the pool area.

Mike and Rich jumped off of the roof into the pool for an added surprise this year to the existing craziness. Bobbing for apples was especially fun as everyone seemed to really get into it this year with their whole bodies. We also had homemade root beer which was so yummy it will definitely be a new tradition for Hallow's Eve!

We also invited Marnelie's boyfriend over and got to meet him for the first time. He and Marnelie had a great time passing out the candy to all of our trick-or-treaters.


Carson with some homemade root beer!




Yeehaw...it's cowgirl Bailey!!! And I had to get some shots of the kids sorting through their loot and making trades.



Yummylicious Luke Skywalker!



Luke Skywalker with girlfriend Tinkerbell.




Marnelie with her boyfriend Nassir and friend Paz. They passed out candy to the 2,000 trick-or-treaters who came to our door between 6-8pm Halloween night.


Mike and buddy Rich in a bobbing for apples race.




Sammy with 2 of her bestest friends - Sophie & Natasha.


The Daynes Fam...yee-haw, meow-meow, and May The Force Be With You!!!


Obi One Kenobi and Cowgirl; Luke Skywalker and Tink.



Cowgirl Bailey with her friends Sophie and Kierica.


Carson was an awesome Yoda. He was totally in character as a 500 year old creature. He even had Mike bring him back a walking stick from Indonesia. This was an important part of his costume (to him). He also refused to use a light saber unless it was green.


Jack Sparrow and Obi One.


Sammy Cat - three years running!


Obi One, Luke Skywalker and Master Yoda.


School Halloween Parties.