Freedom in the form of 2 (actually 3) wheels / Mystery Fruit of the week

Ah, our shipment has arrived and it is starting to feel like home!
It came last Friday and I still seem to be putting stuff away.  It is great to have all the comforts of home; now we just need to find somewhere to put everything!  E's room looks great and the craft room/guest room is coming along.  Unfortunately, we can't get the sofa that came with the apartment out.  It is currently up on its end in the corner of the living room.  I think we are going to have to cut it apart.  (Pain in the you know what!)


The best part of getting our stuff (besides all of my kitchen stuff) is getting our bikes.  We shipped 5 bikes.  Since getting our bikes, an entirely new world has opened to us!  One of the reasons that we picked our location was that we were right next to the Underpass to the beach.  Here on the East coast of Singapore next to the beach is a walking path, then a bike and rollerblade path, a big highway called the ECP, and then rows and rows of high rises.  We knew that we couldn't step right out to the beach from our place, but the next best thing was hopping on the bikes and riding via the underpass to the beach on a bike path.  


Last weekend the hubby had a friend in for the F1 races.  We all rode down the bike path to a restaurant called Brussel Sprouts and had lunch.  Nice ride and E rode her big girl bike (without training wheels!) all of the way!  When we got there we saw that Kids eat free on the weekends at lunch (Yeah!); unfortunately E fell asleep at the restaurant and missed the whole meal.  Guess we wore her out.  She did wake up enough to ride back (with several stops along the way).


This week E and I decided to go for a ride.  We connected up the trail-a-bike so that we could go farther.  What a great way to get around.  

Bike path along the beach

We rode for good while and found a strip of restaurants and one that even serves and American type breakfast and opens at 9am on the weekends.  Score!!  Found our new weekend breakfast spot.  

Restaurants along the bike path

We also decided to stop and play in the sand for a while. 

 Beach Left

Beach Right

 E digging a hole in the sand

We had a great day and decided that we need to make this a weekly aftershool trip.  Not to mention it is great exercise.  Next I need to learn how to use the other underpasses to get to other parts of town.  I know there is a Wet Market somewhere just off the bike path and I also heard that there is a good Hawker center just a bit further up from where we stopped.  We can't wait to explore along the coast.

E riding behind me on the trail-a-bike

Bikes are pretty popular here and there haven't been any bike slots for us to lock up our bikes. With all of our bikes; things were a bit crowded on our balcony.  Not to mention trying to get a bike with a trail-a-bike in an elevator and down 14 floors was quite challenging.  When I saw the management I asked if they had any slots open up.  I think it was a combination of the sight of us with that huge bike contraption and E's cute smile that scored us a prime lock spot. Way to go E!

Our transportation all locked up

You know, I might actually be starting to like it here.  (Ask me that again in a month) Either way, it was a great week and the freedom of being able to get around helped for sure.

Fruit of the week

This week I also experienced a fruit that I'm not sure what it is.  I'm going to need your help here!  At first I thought it was a Longan fruit, but then I did some research and I'm not sure. Longans don't appear to come in sections and I think they are sweeter and taste more like a grape than a grapefruit.


So, I bought some of these at the wet market not far from our house.  They weren't very pretty and I wasn't sure if I would like them but the store owner let me try some and I figured it would be a good fruit adventure.

Mystery fruit

This fruit opens by squeezing the fruit from both sides so that the top cracks open.

 Once the top is cracked open you pull each side apart and the fruit is exposed.

 Then you peel off the shell.

Inside you will find a juicy fruit that has sections of different shapes.

The texture is like that of a grape and the flavor is very much like grapefruit.  It tastes a lot like the fruit I did called the Pomelo.  There are some seeds in this fruit in the bigger sections.  The seeds are about the size of a pea and they don't really come out very easily as you kind of have to bite the fruit off around the seed.  (like you do with an olive)

Now it's your turn!  What is the mystery fruit that I have shown above?