Sunday 8th October

Woke and quickly ate breakfast. Tried to pack remaining toiletries and
food into bags. Missed taxi ordered by Auntie Pauline, then anxious
wait for her to ring him to come back – he rang the bell of no.19A
Cornell Court and Chris actually saw him waiting but thought he was
there for someone else. Thank goodness there's no traffic to the
airport on Sunday, Auntie Pauline was waiting with 2 trolleys and a
security guard who thought that she was loitering suspiciously!

Gave her the extra bags of clothes. We didn't have any problems with
the luggage allowance. Went straight to the boarding gate, didn't have
time to have morning tea with Auntie Pauline as planned.

Abi settled in to the flight and didn't struggle much on take off.
Distracted by in flight magazine. Luckily there was a spare seat across
the aisle so we got that too. Abi fell asleep in Priscilla's arms and
Priscilla ate her lunch while watching a movie (The Devil wears Prada)
until near to the end when Abi awoke and started to eat the chicken
rice. She preferred the baby meal dessert however which was vanilla
crème caramel. No to the chocolate icecream.

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Landed in Singapore and had a nappy change. Found the SIA counter for
the transfer mini-bus. Lazy driver wouldn't help Chris put our bags
onto the bus even though he helped others on our bus. Abi excited at
the window seat, waving to people in other cars / backs of trucks as we
drove to the city. Carlton hotel very nice, got a double width room
(1001). Pollution on the skyline is very hazy – due to Indonesian slash
and burn operations.

Chris' relatives (Uncle Moo, Auntie Pat and Cousin Eugene) came at 5pm
to our room, chatted and played with Abi. She had already started play doh.

Dinner at food court of nearby Raffles City. Food is cheap here, S$4 a
dish average. Abi enjoyed being the centre of attention from the oldies
who kept commenting that she resembled Carisse, Daniel's youngest daughter.

Back to our room and Abi fell asleep only after babbling a long time and
finally when Chris turned off all the dim lighting and closed the heavy
drapes.