Peas In A Pod

This is one of my all-time favourite photos, taken recently while celebrating my sister Christine’s’ birthday at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel here in Singapore last month. All of our lives people have been remarking how similar we are, not infrequently even assuming that we were twins. We always felt this was pushing the similarities a bit, but we are in many respects very alike. We both love to go out and have a good time, both like having people round for dinner, both have two kids, and share the same silly sense of humour.
We also both love seafood, although I have to admit our entire family is like that. Hence the dinner at the Ritz, as they were having one of their famous seafood buffets. As Singapore’s only 6-star hotel we were expecting something wonderful, and we certainly weren’t disappointed. Chris and I heard what we decided must be the best pick up line ever during the dinner. We were watching a chef cook what we assumed was fish (turned out it was slipper lobster – yum!), when he glanced up, saw us standing there and reaching behind him to grab a laden-plate inquired “can I offer you a lobster madam?” Gets our vote every time!

After a fabulous meal of every type of seafood you can possible imagine and several that we were not brave enough to try (just what sort of creature is a sea cucumber anyway??) we left and enjoyed the perfect night-cap – a Singapore Sling in the Garden Bar at Raffles Hotel.

I’m pretty sure that Christine enjoyed the night as much and we did and it will certainly be one of those memories that I revisit often and have a smile and a chuckle over. Happy birthday all over again Christine, we’ll have to see what we can come up with next year!