Living in Singapore

We have been in Singapore 4 days now and have been living at the Orchard Hotel. It is hard living in a hotel room but we are making due with what we have. We are lucky that our room has a dark hall way- this has become Elyse's room. The last couple days we have been looking around for apartments so we can get out of the hotel and start to feel settled. The man that is showing us around is very nice and full of information. We saw 7 places yesterday and 2 today. We have narrowed it down to 2 places. One is at Summerdale and the other is at a place called Lakeshore.

At Summerdale the apartment is a penthouse. It is large and has 2 floors and a beautiful terrace. It is newly renovated and the owner seems very proud of the unit and has put a lot of work into it. The only problem is that it in not very close to an MRT (subway) station. It is close to a bus station though.

The place at Lakeshore is smaller but it has a nice layout. It has a floor to ceiling window that over looks the pool on one side and out one of the bedroom windows you over look the open green area on the 7th floor. This apartment is very close to an MRT station.

Decisions, decisions.

As for our adjustment here, it is ok. The weather reminds me of Texas, but there is breeze which is nice. We are still not sleeping through the night, but we are sleeping more each night. Hopefully we will all be adjusted soon.

Here are some pictures of the hotel and some signs I thought were funny. On the cross walk one look at the very bottom section of the sign. I think you can Google the apartments to see some pictures. I am sorry I am not individually e-mailing, I am feeling a bit overwhelmed in that area at the moment, but hopefully will be caught up soon.