The baptism in Ohio was great. Deb and I arrived on Friday evening and had time to hang out with Laura, Pete, Claire and Beth. We were able to spend some good time with Claire before she got a little fussy around 9pm. Dad, Mom, Frank and Chelsea showed up right around that time. Apparently this is normal and by 10:30 she had calmed down and was ready for bed! As Deb said, it is kind hard to sleep with that many “Carroll’s” around due to the noise factor. But Claire has learned very quickly that if she is going to be heard, she will need to get loud (which she did a few times)! She was able to reach “Carroll” status a few times over the weekend. Some highlights include Beth giving Claire a few “life lessons,” a family portrait after the baptism outside the church, playing cards on Saturday night, and Debbie had her first “double-loner” in euchre while we were playing!
On Sunday morning, Deb and I got up and started on our way back to Indy and she dropped me off in Columbus, OH for the beginning of my flight to Singapore. I flew to Detroit, then to Tokyo, and then finally to Singapore. I boarded my plane at 11:45AM on Sunday and landed in Singapore at 1:45AM on Tuesday (due to passing the International Date Line, it wasn’t as long as that sounds). The overall travel was about 30 hours. The one advantage of flying that far to do some work is that we got to fly business class. Seriously, if you have to fly, this is the way to do it. Food wasn’t too bad, the seat fully reclined to almost lay flat, as many movies as you wanted (only a few were good), and as many beverages you needed! Let’s say that a glass of wine, a 7 & 7, and a Tylenol PM will put you to sleep no matter what time you think it is! 
Singapore is a very wealthy country. It is about the size of Indianapolis and it has about 4.4 million people (Indy has about 1 million people). It took a few days to get over the 12 hour time difference, and as soon as we go over that it was time to go home! We came back on Saturday at 7AM and arrived in Indy on Saturday at 6PM. Highlights of the trip include going on a riverboat ride through the downtown district, traveling to an exotic Island to see Underwater World and pet stingrays, and heading to the “southern most point of Asia.” Another typical question is the food, and here is a list of what we ate and drank: Squid, Stingray, Octopus, Jellyfish, Sea Bass, Duck, Chicken, White Fungus Desert, Yam Desert, Coconut Milk, Tom Yum Soup, Several Thai dishes, etc. The trip was great and a good experience. We also went to a 1 million square foot mall which I was definitely the tallest person there by at least 4 inches.I was a confirmation sponsor this month for Chris. It was a good experience and I was honored to be asked by Christopher to be his sponsor on that special day.
We spent our spare moments this month cleaning the condo along with going through and doing our annual “donation to goodwill” organization. We are looking forward to our trip to New York and San Francisco during the month of May!
