I was the master of inefficiency this morning! I dropped Henry at school, drove to Chinatown for some coffee beans (lucked out and there was another coffee shop that roasts their own beans a few doors down from the one I wanted to check out so I bought a bag from both places), then drove back to Henry's school for the lion dance, then drove back to Clarke Quay (right at Chinatown again) for lunch with some of my new neighborhood ladies and then to a pewter workshop.
The lunch was fantastic (Thai food) and one of the ladies at lunch used to be neighbors in Texas with a family that we were neighbors with in Korea! The ladies all seemed nice and they meet regularly for lunches and activities so I'm feeling good about our location again (I hadn't really met anyone at the apartment!).
The pewter workshop was fun. We were given a pewter disc and we pounded it with a mallet on a wooden block with moulds for the bowl. My bowl doesn't sit flat and I initially thought it would have more "character" but it is a fun little dish that will be a good memory of Singapore for me.
After the workshop I had to zip back up to Bukit Timah to get Henry from school and then zip back home to get Anna & Sarah from school. This part I don't like so much. I feel like I'm driving a LOT (probably really not more than I was in Texas, but I didn't like it there, either!). Also, our neighborhood isn't so very different than what we left in Texas. I'm going to focus on how awesome the school is and now that we're getting more & more settled in the house (the rugs and furniture we bought on Sunday really helped to pull things together), I think we'll make a bucket list for things we want to do in Singapore and take action so we don't miss out on some great experiences!
