The girls ran dozens of laps around a twenty-foot Christmas tree (Tova either sprinting recklessly or walking at 1/10 normal speed). They got hopelessly lost in navigating back to our hotel room (Tova’s route from floor 1 to 36 went 1-3-5-3-1-32-35-32-40-36...the highlight was when she followed an elderly woman out onto 40, and totally spazzed our when the woman entered exactly “our” room on a different floor. Sophia literally collapsed on the floor with laughter). They tried masala dosa and spicy green curry in a hawker market. They lounged on oversize chairs like teenage queens and found subanagrams of Westin. They headbutted balloons in a toilet stall. They invented a really loud pointless game (thanks Tova) that goes “scissors paper ROCK! Chuck them in the BIN! I dare you TO!” They swam in a rooftop infinity pool and dived for pennies. They threw invisible wishing coins into a fountain (except Tova ate hers, claiming they were chocolate). Sophia managed to stand up from a bridge for the first time. Aurora went bouldering with Tamar and got taped up. We others got in trouble for descending a broken escalator. Zadie tried to throw Tova under the bus for no reason (“Mamma! Tova did something to me! She did a thing!” “What did she do?” “I don’t knooow!”) Sophia reached the 20-point milestone in her workbook by doing a heroic amount of subtraction and geometry. Tova crushed her piece of gingerbread into a perfectly round wafer and kept it all day. Zadie read “Moomintroll and the New Friend” in pidgin Norwegian. It was not exactly a boring day.
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| Bad posture, good pastries |
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| Nightswimming 35 floors up |
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| Zadie soaks up Singapore’s luxury |
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| Zadie rests on a pot |
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| Tova on the way to a waffle |
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| Tova and Zadie on the wrong floor |
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