I grabbed the occasional hour of sleep here and there with the sounds of sixties or dance music to drown out the sound of the plane or other passengers. Occasionally I would be woken from my sleep by someone bumping my feet when they encroached into the aisle too much. After just over 12 hours of flying, we landed in Singapore. It was early in the evening, but fortunately the lack of sleep made it feel like it was the evening. Again, Singapore was hot, and this time we were treated to a tropical downpour as we took the Skytrain between the terminals.
This time we only had three hours to spend at Changi, so we went shopping again. We had noticed the LeapFrog Tag Reader books for William on the way over, but we couldn't find any in the shops in the UK, so we went to the nearest toy shop. We were in a different terminal this time, and the toy shop here was much bigger and had a different selection of books. Mum wanted to buy something for Timothy, so I suggested the LeapFrog Fridge Phonics toy, but was excited to discover that LeapFrog had released a new Fridge Words™ Magnetic Word Builder which is similar except it can take three letters and is much more advanced.
We went to a few other shops and bought some more clothes. The time disappeared quickly so we made our way to the terminal to get our tickets. There seemed to be a problem getting my tickets, apparently I needed to supply confirmation of a flight leaving New Zealand. Eventually, we worked out it was because I had been travelling on my British passport and it didn't have enough information to let the system know that I was a New Zealand citizen. Once I produced my New Zealand passport, there were no problems (I'm glad I brought it with me). We boarded our plane and began our last big flight back to New Zealand.
