The Magic Phrase

As the time for our departure continues to encroach upon us we are trying to get things checked off our list.  As you can imagine it is a big list and as we check things off it seems that more things sneak on.  One big decision is do we take our bikes to Singapore or do we leave them home?
 Singapore is about 247 Square Miles, that is not very big.  The population is a dense 4 million plus people that means that there is lots of traffic and lots of people and not lots of area to ride bike.  There are trails in some parks and along the ocean which I imagine are beautiful to ride on however, it is always around 88 degrees with super high and  sticky humidity so really do we want to ride in that heat?  We won't have a bike rack so it's not like we can just drive the bikes to some great trail.  In addition to all of this we are told it is hard to get the bikes through customs as they do not like anything that is dirty or greasy coming into the city.  It will be prime bike riding years for our boys so it would be nice if we could bring them. 
This has been a discussion point in our family for the past couple of weeks.  I think we are deciding to bring the scooters over and then rent bikes on days that we think we want to hit a trail.  So is it checked off the list?.... maybe.
So the magic phrase....why do I have that as a title to this blog?
We need dental appointments so I called today to make them for three of us.  You know how this works, they are booking out 4 months from now.  I discovered today that the phrase " we are moving out of the country" is a magical phrase, suddenly we were able to get appoints for tomorrow and then the next day!  OK.......Wow!  So ummm I can't really tell you to use that phrase as you want to be honest but it does work.  that is one thing checked off the list now let's hope that one appointment does not lead to more appointments because I am not sure how often I can use my magic phrase.