It was great to see meet many FTers I hadn’t already encountered somewhere in the world, including a lot who were at their 1st Do and (of course) seeing those I’ve met before and always enjoy getting to spend more time with! ^ Thanks to everyone for a fantastic weekend, and a special round of thanks going out to:

mjm for coordinating -- it was so much fun that many of us have been talking about next year’s SIN Do (consider this my RSVP!),
miles4all for the fantastic walking tour and sharing your knowledge of Singapore with us,
Gaz for the hospitality, door prizes at Saturday’s dinner and walking us through the markets at Chinatown and the sampling that went with it,
mafbar for the gifts and also sharing your local knowledge,
kiwiflyer for the kiwi gifts on Saturday,
traveliter for the pins

MikeinSin -- Very sorry to hear about the death in the family.

Despite a slight change in the “party flight” HKG-SIN, our trip got off to a great start by getting to invade the cockpit of our 747 at HKG for some group photos (including Freddie Jr) at the pilots’ suggestion, and then today following a fun “party flight” SIN-NRT and spending some quality time in the RCC & the SK lounge at NRT, we had a great flight back to ORD including captain’s cards, a special wave from the cockpit just before leaving NRT and “spotting ourselves” in Hemispheres (UA flyers should understand this from the UA forum). The cabana boy never did materialize (although I did get an interesting comment from the desk clerk )….but I have my pool guys instead!

Photos to be uploaded in the next couple days after a lot of editing