About 3 years ago my friend Cynthia came to Singapore for a visit and in mid October this year she returned to Singapore for another visit and to celebrate her birthday with us.

Unfortunately, she picked up the flu AND a sinus infection on her way out here...probably from the flight... so her first few days here were pretty miserable for her.  But, like a good friend, I brought her to Raffles Hospital Urgent Care Clinic (I seem to take an awful lot of our guests there!) and after starting on some antibiotics she began feeling much better.  Thankfully this was just in time for our Halloween Quiz night at the Singapore Cricket Club.  Cynthia was our secret weapon that night with many of the odd trivia facts she knew!  We didn't get first place but we also didn't come in dead last so we were really happy with our performance.


Cynthia was Marilyn Monroe, I was a 1920's girl (though someone said they thought I was a ninja) and Kingsley was a super cool hippie dude and was very proud to be wearing a shirt that he bought for himself at university.

I spent 5 weeks in Seattle this summer enjoying some of the most glorious weather.  Seattle is a great city year round but summers are when it really shines.  When I was booking my trip 5 weeks seemed like such a long time but between working and seeing friends and family it yet again somehow managed to fly by.

Some of my highlights of the trip in no particular order were:

Playing with my Nephews
Being there for both my brothers birthdays
Spending time with family
Eating Mexican Food
End of summer sales
Boston concert at St. Michelle winery
Eating Mexican Food
Seahawks pre-season game (my first game ever!)
Filling four suitcases full of 50lbs worth of shopping!






Seahawks game from Lynn Wood on Vimeo.


Seahawks Preseason from Lynn Wood on Vimeo.

John Hawk has been a dear friend of Kingsley and mine for many years and has been one of the most eligible bachelors.  He certainly took his time to meet the right lady but he met such a perfect match in Christine.  John and Christine and Kingsley and I bonded last Christmas on our sailing trip around Palawan island in the Philippines.

It was a beautiful wedding on Sept 21st at De Lille winery in Woodinville, Kingsley and I really felt so happy to be there to celebrate their special day.

Kingsley and I tried a new spot for his haircut this weekend and he was inadvertently placed with BATGIRL as his hairdresser.  I'm sure she must have many wonderful super powers but hair styling was sadly not one of them.  We asked for the Bruce Wayne cut but sadly got something more like the Joker... Thank goodness his hair grows quickly!  I'm impressed that after 4 years in Asia, Kingsley is still willing to try new places for his haircuts.

On my trip back from Seattle to Singapore I had an interesting encounter on the flight from Hong Kong to Singapore.  I sat across the aisle and one row back from a Chinese woman (who did not speak a word of english) and her 3 year old son both of whom had obviously never been on a plane before.

There were quite a few annoying experiences in flight...the son played games on his tablet the entire flight with the volume on HIGH with no headphones...and the woman seemed to only have one voice volume which was LOUD!  Thank goodness for earplugs!

Anyway, we are moments away from landing on the runway in Singapore so all the flight attendants are buckled in.  As we are about to touch down the son tells his mother that he needs to piddle.  In in instant, off comes both their seat belts and the woman expertly reaches across the aisle and grabs a complete strangers empty plastic cup out the holder and then proceeds to crouch in the middle of the aisle to hold the cup while her son urinates into it. In the midst of all of this three things happened simultaneously, the plane touches down on the runway, the flight attendants jaws drop on the floor witnessing passengers out of their seats during landing, and I decide to try and take an incognito photo of the whole experience (but in my jet lagged haze I forgot to check the flash) and my flash lights up the cabin.

I am not sure who got more dirty looks, me or the crazy Chinese woman holding a cup full of urine as the plane taxied down the runway.  I only wish I had some semblance of a photo to show for the experience but between the overexposure from the flash and the bumpy landing the photo is one big blur so you will have to use your imagination!