Pending adventures

Whilst I am still recovering from the shock of the fact that it’s already mid-September, my diary is really starting to fill up with some ridiculously exciting plans. It’s going to be Christmas in no time at all, and whilst I can’t wait for the festive fun to begin, there are all sorts of amazing adventures to make my way through first!

            Today Nick and I made our way to the Vietnamese Embassy to collect our visas and passports. With another page in my passport fully blocked out we are now approved to go over to Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) next weekend. Unfortunately once we had made the 9am time slot to pick up the passports we then had the most horrendous car journey back into the city to get to work, with the traffic hardly moving and a very rare morning rain cloud lurking overhead.

Gearing up to the F1

This is because it’s finally F1 week in Singapore! The barriers and lighting rigs are up and blocking most of the major roads through the heart of the city ready for the first races to get started on Friday afternoon. The cloud seeding starts here too, with rain being force dumped out at sea to ensure perfect weather conditions in town when the world starts looking at it in a bit more detail. It was a massive pain to get to work today, but it’s a one off for me as I normally walk in, and I know that by the end of the weekend I will be in no doubt about it being entirely worth it!

It will be my first time in Vietnam - very exciting! 

Once the F1 is done, we’ll be off to Ho Chi Minh City for the following weekend, then a few weeks later my Charlie and her boyfriend Steve will be passing through town for a weekend of fun before their holiday begins. Then there is a potential trip back over to the US in November, flights are booked for a visit to Melbourne to see Nick’s 93 year old great aunt and the rest of his family in mid-October. Our tickets to Hong Kong are not yet confirmed as we wait for sign off on the San Fran trip, but the Gilis are happening on the first weekend of December and then we’ll be home for Christmas a few weeks after that.

Gili T - apparently as close to paradise as you can get!

There is a slight chance that we’ve gone a little bit overboard in our booking and planning for the rest of the year, but for someone who wasn’t really very excited about leaving home behind to come and live in Asia, we haven’t half done well with this year!