It's Friday!

Singaporeans are very happy on Fridays, as am I because I have successfully finished my first week of work in Singapore!  The training went very well.  Before I left work, my doc said that I'm ready to be on my own if she were to deliver early and not be able to make it in next week, which is going to be her last week.

I work right by Boat Quay, which is a strip of bars and restaurants by the water.  After work, I go down to Boat Quay hoping that I can find the Royal Wedding on tv at one of the bars.  Well that definitely was not a problem.  There are Royal Wedding fans all along the strip watching the wedding (there are many people from the UK that live here).  Some of the tables have the UK flag on their table for the celebration.  It was perfect timing; I made it down to one of the bars right before Kate gets out to walk down the aisle.  I admit it...I had tears in my eyes as she walked down the aisle.  She is so beautiful and her dress was beautiful.  They were so cute.  They looked like any normal couple my age who is getting married.  You could see them whispering to each other during certain times of the broadcast.  They didn't look stiff and cold like you would think a royal wedding would be.  It was just so beautiful....tear.

It was very amusing watching it in a crowd of people who were obviously from the UK.  They cheered and clapped when certain people came on the screen, such as Sir Elton John.  They laughed during certain parts, like when the brother whispered something to William.  It was a great place to be to watch the wedding. 

After the wedding, I went down to another bar with an Aussie and my new American friend from the Philly area.  She is my age and has been travelling for the last year and a half.  She was in New Zealand for awhile and has been here in Singapore for a short time now.  She is a bartender at the Prince of Wales hostel bar, and just got a daytime job contracted for the next 3 months.  She is easy to talk to and we connect talking about men, traveling, and cities we would move to in the US after traveling abroad.  She reminds me of my old roommate from chiro school and has almost the exact same laugh.  It makes me miss my old roommate (miss you L!!) so I attempt to text her after having a few Tiger beers and have trouble remembering her number that we worked so hard to remember during school in case I ever lost my phone and needed to call her.  Of course it comes right to me when I wake up the next morning. :-P  It is nice to have another single, American girl to talk to here!