Mid-Southeast Asia Adventure Update!

Singapore- Good for the food baby!
Arrived safely to Asia sans checked bag thanks to Phillipine Airlines!  Luckily, I had some "emergency medication" that I absolutely needed from my bag; magically the bag then appeared at the hotel 2 days later :D Three whirl wind days in Singapore = lots of eating yummy Singaporean food!
Memorable moments:
1. Fish spas:  You sit with your feet in a tank and the fish "feed" off of the dead skin on your feet.  It was the oddest thing I have ever experienced, although I highly recommend that everyone should at least try it once, kind of tickles
2. Kevin spitting: Yup Kevin broke the law and spit right after which he realized what he had just done and nearly crapped himself.  No joke.  It was awesome.
3. Casinos do not allow people in wearing tank tops, shorts and flip-flops. Check, check and check, thanks to me we couldn't get into the casino, oopsies!  Although there is a super sweet looking casino that is three buildings and a boat that sits on the roofs and connects the buildings together, check out the pics!
4. London Eye, or is it Singapore Eye?  Giant ferris wheel that goes reaalllllly realllllyy slow but you can see the whole city on it.
5. Being yelled at by the locals for not knowing that its ok to drink on the street because they thought I was Singaporean.

Sipadan, Malaysia = SipaWOW!
Travelling to Sipadan is definitely tricky.  We caught a flight to Kuala Lumpur, then another flight to Tawau and finally an hour and half car ride to Semporna.  The next day we took a boat to Mapul; this is the island that people stay on when visiting Sipadan since people are not allowed to stay on Sipadan island.  Mapul itself was absolutely amazing, the water was so clear you can see to the bottom in the shallow parts.  Sadly the locals are polluting the water and after a rainstorm you can see the plastic bottles, bags, etc floating in the water.  I HIGHLY recommend the place we stayed at Sipadan.com, the people were extremely friendly and the dive masters were awesome!  Since the shower there was outdoors and drained directly into the ocean, I spent 3 days not showering with shampoo and soap out of principle, I smelled delicious! (Eric will be proud of my tree hugger ways!)

The diving in that part of the world was by far THE BEST I have ever seen.  Some highlights include:  TONS of turtles, white tip reef sharks, beautiful coral, cuttle fish, sting ray, a HUGE school (it looked like a wall) of jack fish that you can swim through, another HUGE school of barracuda that you shouldn't swim through, and a FLAMBOYANT CUTTLEFISH! these fish apparently are the rearest to see when diving, many of the dive masters there with hundreds of dives have never seen one.  When it got aggravated with us the FC walked along the bottom of the ocean floor and was changing colors, it was unbelievable. Photos to follow.