The Journey to Singapore

It's hard to believe that it has only been a week since we back in the US packing up our house.  Derek and I both admit this has been one of the longest weeks of our lives.  We have sold our cars, packed up our house, flown half way across the world, and started new jobs in less than a week.  All I can say is we are ready for the weekend!

All of our bags.  It was not easy making it to the counter
with all this luggage.

So one thing I haven't talked about yet is our actual journey to Singapore.  No matter what they tell you, there is no direct flight from Houston.  Every plane stops somewhere if only for an hour or two.  I took the Houston-Moscow-Singapore flight last time and wasn't crazy about the Moscow stop because we had to go out and back through security so we decided to try Houston-Los Angeles-Singapore.  We had to change terminals in LA so we still had to go out and back through security but at least it was in our home country and everything was in English.

During our 3-hour layover in LA we went to the club lounge and enjoyed watching the second half of the Clemson/Auburn game.  We were excited to find another Clemson Alum in the lounge and cheered our Tigers on to victory.  I even made myself a mimosa since that is my favorite tailgating drink.  I blame it on too many noon games while I was a student.

The flight from LA to Singapore is one of the longest in the world clocking in at 17.5 hours.  We must have had some great tailwind because we made it in 16.5 hours.  Thank goodness for business class seats, although that is a long flight no matter where you are sitting!  We slept for half of the flight and then ate and watched movies for the rest of it.  We flew Singapore Airlines which is quickly becoming my favorite airline.  Their service is amazing and their food isn't too bad.  It's a nice change from the angry US airlines.

I took this picture of the flight path screen.  About the
only thing we crossed over was water.

We landed in Singapore at 4:40am on Monday morning (we left LA at 9:30pm Saturday night) and after passing through customs we were greeted by our driver who took us to our temporary apartment.  We unpacked our bags and took showers before heading out for a day of exploring.  The key to getting over jet lag is to make sure you stay up the whole day so the best way to do that is to keep busy.  We did some shopping, bought new cell phones, and transferred Maddie to quarantine which helped distract us from how tired we were.  We managed to stay up until 9pm when we completely crashed from physical and mental exhaustion.  We have been busy since we landed which I will share in future posts.