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Tuesday, February 9, 2016

A bunch of random pictures

Tattoos? Suzy is always at the cutting edge of fashion and moved on to stickers

Jace is (mostly) a great brother

Suzy is always a great wife

Some MBS action

Mom loves the beaches.

Chickens

On the Singapore Flyer

Playing with papa

Splash Pad!

Year of the Monkey Yo,

Kite flying at Marina Barrage

Even Brighton got in on the action

Beautiful smiles

Fun with Friends

Makeovers!

Jace did Suzy's nails

Suzy was a chaperon at Kate's field trip to the Aquarium

Monitor Lizard

I'm just glad Suzy survived her encounter with the Giant Lizard man

Suzy's birthday

We started off the evening watching a Lion Dance competition from the outside because we didn't want to pay to go in.

Here is the Hindu Ritual of Thaipusam. The men get ritually pierced and attached to various things that they carry or drag.

We went out on Suzy's birthday with the Lifferths, a fun family from the local ward. They're originally from Tennessee and Louisiana.

Daren spotted one of those reverse bungee contraptions that shoots you in the air.

Suzy and Sarah were gung ho!

They had a GoPro camera hooked up that gave you a up close view of the action.

This was the delicious Two layer cake I built. I had a few issues. I put the pudding layer on without first removing it from the pan. I was able to get it out, but didn't know that you could build your own platter using cardboard and aluminum foil, so I used what we had, which made it sort of concave.

It ended up looking okay, but tasted delicious. I wasn't kidding about the delicious part.

Super Bowl Monday, CNY style

In Singapore, the Super Bowl started on Monday Morning at 7:30 am. We all gathered at the Torfin's house, with a preponderance of Bronco Fans (and some Peyton Fans who were from Tennessee). There was so much great food and great fun!

The Sumsion's got a lion dance troupe to come out since it was CNY eve (Chinese New Year's eve) also! Hence the reason we all had the day off and could watch the Super bowl.

Here the Lion is sitting on the plate of oranges from the previous video. The guys inside the lion (sorry to break it to you this way, but really there's two guys inside the costume) are peeling the oranges.

When the Lion got up, this was what was left underneath!

On Saturday we went with Jace to the science center, where they have a live chick exhibit

For Chinese New Year's Eve, we got together and did "Lo Hei"

that means "Prosperity Toss". They have a list of traditional ingredients that you add with various "Auspicious Sayings". Most having to do with Gold. Dwarves are the same way (at least if you read Terry Pratchett they are). We used our own ingredients, and came up with our own Auspicious Sayings.

Here was Daren wish for lice free homes

Jace's wish for us to never be mean to someone else.