Pulau Ubin

Interesting weekend. First, I lost a battle with a ceiling fan (Erin prefers a story where I got attacked by a wild monkey, but the reality doesn't live up to her fiction). Then, after a quick trip to the doctor for some stitches, we hopped on a bumboat for Pulau Ubin (http://www.wildsingapore.com/ubin/index.html), a small island 10-minutes north of Singapore. Ubin contains a small town with bicycle rental shops, a couple of restaurants, a lot of fisherman, and not much else. We rented bikes and sweated our way around the island, catching sight of 4-foot high hornets nests, spiders the size of the kids' hands, large monkeys, banyan trees, and some crazy fish/eel type thing (still haven't figure out what they were). We came back Sunday, dirty and tired. We were running late so we had to take the taxi straight from the ferry terminal to Graham's soccer practice, backpacks and all. We finally made it back to our shophouse at around 5 PM, completely exhausted.

PS - For my camping friends, though hanging one's food in a "bear bag" is clearly a challenge, keeping it safe from the monkeys seems like a much greater intellectual feat. I'm still not sure I have a foolproof strategy.