Home Again!!

Well, we arrived back in Sentani at 7:50 am yesterday morning with our bags packed full of goodies like Skittles, gobstoppers, soup packets, pepperoni, Lego, Tostito's tortilla chips, Doritos, Scotch Brite dishwashing sponges, and you get the idea... It was a very loooonngg trip home. We left Singapore at 7:00 in the evening and arrived in Bali a few hours later. There we had a 3 hour layover in the middle of the night. Thankfully there were actually a few shops open; although I have to say that the International terminal in Bali is a lot nicer than the domestic. Speaking of terminals, Singapore does not have a domestic terminal. There is only one airport in the whole country! It's really more of a big city actually. Did you know that in Singapore it is illegal to chew gum? You can't even buy gum there! There are 7/11 convenience stores on just about every corner of the city so Christiaan got to enjoy some slushies. Anyways, we left Bali at about 1:45 am and flew to Timika (city on the southern coast of Papua) waited there for 25 minutes and then had a 50 minute flight to Sentani.

Singapore airport is a beautiful airport that runs very efficiently. We were very impressed with it all. One thing I thought was great was that when you get to your gate, before you even enter the waiting area, you show your boarding pass and they rip off their part. So when boarding begins, there is no bottle-neck at the door as everyone fights to get their pass checked first.

I didn't take a lot of photos in Singapore. The first one is me enjoying my first fast food hamburger in a long time. It was the first thing we did after we arrived! Eat fast food!!! The second photo is a scene that I found while walking through the city. Then the last photo is us walking on the beautiful tree-covered sidewalk from the guest house to the nearest mall. There were even garbage cans along the way!! And no gaping holes in the sidewalk!!! And no garbage to step over!!