Your Life in a Box

We arrived at 3 am local time yesterday with our 7 bags and after the breakfast of champions (McDonald's) and a nap, we started our adventure in our new city.

But there was so much more that happened in order to get to that point. Let's start back a month ago when the packing began. We knew that we were going to ship some of our bigger stuff over via plane/boat and take what we couldn't live without for three months with us on the plane. I began doing research on expat blogs and the Singapore Customs website. 

Over the course of a month I found some great blogs (my favorite one is-click here-) and began my multiple trips to Target, Costco and Macy's to stock up on the necessities and items that would make a foreign country seem a little like home.

Some of the more interesting items that we packed include:

• A BBQ grill (which is apparently a commodity here and worth a lot of $$ in resale...we will see if we actually have a place to use this)
• Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing mix
• Taco Seasoning
• Tool Box
• Our favorite hot sauces....Palo Alto Firefighters & Frank's Red Hot
• 8 of our favorite Meno Clinic protein powder (Thanks Mama S & Dr. Mark)
• 6 underbed storage containers (fingers crossed we have beds and that they fit under them)
• Extra toiletries- my favorite beauty products, our go to toothpastes, soap, lotion, etc. You can find a lot of American brands here, but not all of them.
• Cast iron pan
• Zebra rug
• Costco sized pack of paper towels
• Greeting cards & wrapping paper (pretty pricey here)

What we didn't pack but wanted to:

• Wine (they would quarantined our stuff for a year if they found any alcohol)
• Guns (but there is a shooting club here- www.singaporegunclub.com)
• Our awesome arm chairs (too big for a non-american house)
• Apple TV (but we will buy one here)
• Our bikes (we may regret this one...)
• The camera tripod (luckily there are a multitude of camera shops within a mile of anywhere here.)

Now that we and our bags, $500 in baggage fees later,  made it, let's just hope everything else that's being shipped arrives in three months!

Happy Trails,
Amy & Raegen

Headed to the airport in PHX...Singapore or Bust!