Gong Xi Fa Cai!
Chinese New Year is the biggest holiday in Singapore. So we decided to take the surfboards and head to the beach while Mike had a few days off of work. It was a typical Malaysian vacation...it started out with traffic through the border, then finding our beachfront hotel that was oh so beautiful on the website but very run down and unkempt in reality; mixed with poor service and throngs of Chinese & Malay tourists who filled the pool area of the hotel. I can't forget to mention the large amount of oil in every meal...oily eggs, oily spaghetti, and oily fish & chips were oh so tempting.
Actually, aside from the crowds, our increased level of cholesterol & lack of surfable waves we really made the most of it and had a great time. We had great weather...(a bit windy so that the surf was blown out) and good times with friends. Our regular traveling companions, the Robisons, were there, as well as the young men from our ward who were camping down the beach a bit in tents.
