Coming and Going

Well, that's it.  In a few hours we board the plane for our 28 hour trip back to WI.  This week has been a very busy, very informative, very difficult, very hot, very tiring  and yet a very good week.  We are definitely ready to come home!
We went to a HUGE department store tonight in Little India, we were told about it by our housing agent, it is called Mustafa's and it takes up two city blocks and is 4 stories tall and is open 24/ 7.  The taxi guy said "they have everything in there" and he was not kidding we found stuff in there that we were told Singapore does not have including Snickers candy bars.  The tooth brushes we saw early in the week at a store were 9+ dollars, at Mustafa's they are $3.50.  It is one of those stores that you have to take the time to look but if you are willing to dig a bit you will find treasure.  We checked expiration dates etc... and it was all good stuff.  We took the taxi there but when we were ready to come home there was a huge line by the taxi station when we realized that all those people were waiting for a taxi we decided we should walk a bit and try to find a different taxi station.  We walked about 3 blocks and found an MRT station, we are getting pretty familiar with taking the MRT so we navigated our way back to the hotel via MRT and saved about $8.00 by doing so.  It really is easy to get around this city if you just take the time to learn it.
We also put an offer in on an apartment for our family to live in, we should know by next week if it was accepted or not.  I got a very long and encouraging e-mail from our new friend here she has just been great and is a wealth of information as she has lived here for 13 years.  She even had a contact for a violin teacher for the boys that she knows personally and he will come to our apartment to teach them, I Will be contacting him soon! 
While we have been here we have been handed the name of a Diabetes Dr. with personal reference from our housing agent, the name of a violin teacher, and numerous store and business contacts.  Not to mention our whole hair cutting adventure. 
Final survey, Singapore will be a fine place for our family to live, if we have to move away from all we know and love this isn't a bad place to move.  It will be hard to move as we will miss our family and our friends and I am sure be homesick but having been here this week, it will be a little easier as we have a better idea of what to expect.