Our Trip to Singapore/Bali

The Day after Christmas, we took McKenzie, Brigham and Tanner and flew to Singapore to visit my mom and dad who are Public Affairs Missionaries for Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. It was an amazing trip to meet the people they have grown to love while serving there. We also got to go to Bali for a few days for some welcomed R&R. It was an amazing vacation!This is the church building on Bukit Timah Road.

Touring Singapore and visiting their symbol~ the Merlion

Visiting the Raffles Hotel. It's a landmark in Singapore. It was a former Plantation Home owned by the Raffles family. This doorman is almost as famous as the hotel, and if your not a guest at the hotel, he doesn't let you even enter the posh hotel.

Trying our luck at the "Fountain of Wealth"
Lunch overlooking the Kintamani volcano and Lake Batur

Here McKenzie and I are at the Rice Terraces in Bali. They are beautiful.
The boys and I at Tanah Lot. One of the Holy Temple sights in bali for the Hindu Religion.
Mom and Dad at LeMeridian looking onto Tanah Lot

If you have read 'Eat, Pray, Love' this is the home of Ketut Leyer the Medicine Man

Monkey Forest. Dan had a monkey jump out of a tree and onto his shoulder!
Grandpa coaching Brigham on how to feed a monkey!

Dan got to fulfill the dream of surfing in Bali
This was our beautiful villa in the middle of a rice patty field. It was incredible! We felt so spoiled with a butler, a cook and a staff at our disposal.
It was incredibly HOT in Bali. We were greeted at our Villa with these refreshing drinks and fried bananas every night~ we loved it!

New Years Eve Dinner with Paul and Nicole. Mom and Dad's friends from Rwanda.
Our favorite store in Sigapore became the bangle store in Little India. We loved how Sheila worked her magic and created fun bangles with these beautiful colors!
Mom and Dad took us on a morning walk through the beautiful Botanical Gardens

This trip was amazing. We had so much fun, met so many wonderful people, and had such unique experiences that it will be a vacation our whole family will remember forever. The kids loved it, and although Tanner wasn't a fan of Bali and all the Hindu practices of worshiping idols, masks and burning incense, the people we met truly touched our hearts. We loved them.