Lost in Malaysia

Well, most of you know that I am directionally challenged, to be sure. That was proven AGAIN this week when a friend of mine and I headed out to the China Outlet Store here in Singapore. She had printed out directions from a kind of "mapquest" site and we got there fine even though it was raining VERY hard.

The place was fascinating. It is an outlet store for China (I'm talking about dish patterns) that have slight imperfections. Of course, I couldn't see the imperfections but the patterns were absolutely beautiful. There must have been hundreds. Since Rick and I are still waiting on our shipment from West Africa, and since we have been eating on paper plates since September, and SINCE a whole 16 piece setting of china was less than $25 - I just had to buy some. So I did.

Now, comes the hard part. Getting to some place in Singapore is easy enough with directions. But getting back home is an entirely different story. Have you ever tried to read directions backwards. I guess we should have known something would go wrong when my friend handed me the map and told me to give her the "bearings!" Ha! Needless to say, we drove and drove and drove and finally looked up and WOW - we were in Malalysia! (I know I've been lost before but I have managed to at least stay in the same country!)

We finally got turned around and headed back into Singapore! (You must have been praying!) We were no worse for the wear but certainly had a tale to tell Rick when we got home. (I'm not sure he believed me at first but then remembered my sense of direction and laughed that my friend would put me in charge of the map!