Landed!

I looked up at the arrivals screen at Singapore's Changi Airport. Flight 252 Eva Airlines from Taipei has landed! My wife, Debra, has landed safely and now there is a wait as she checks through immigration. Belt 21 is behind the glass walls. People are trickling in and gathering around the luggage belt. Finally! There she is! What a welcome site as we both peer through the glass with big smiles. Five to ten minutes later she pushes her cart loaded with three bags past the security guards and through the sliding glass doors. Welcome home! A kiss and a hug and much conversation about our lives over the last three weeks. The taxi drive loads the three bags into the trunk of the car (or "boot" as they call it here) and off we go to our new home.

Every flight that comes in and out of Singapore is an international flight. It is very large and beautiful airport with three regular terminals and one budget terminal. The airport is always full of people from everywhere! Every race and language you could imagine is present. People in their traditional clothes fill the airport. I love coming so I can "people watch." It is so wonderful to see people unite in so many ways. Joy fills the air as the glass doors open and families re-unite.