Saturday, April 05, 2008

Malaysia - Our first week - March 30 to April 6




Here is the view from our window at the hotel. The blue chairs along the bottom left are around one of the pools.










On our first night, we had a great Chinese dinner with a Malysian family. Scott works with Albert, and he and his wife have three boys. Daniel and Joshua actually ate very well - lots of rice and pork.















The boys are slowly getting better about the beach. At first they both cried about the wet sand and hot sand and sand in shoes and....you get the picture. Now they have fun building castles (Daniel builds and Joshua destroys). They also like to jump over the bigger waves and catch hermit crabs.


















We had a great dinner at Satay Zul on Friday night. Daniel loved the Satay - meat on a stick. I loved the peanut sauce (unfortunatley) and Joshua liked to run around and check out every other table in the place. The picture is him tasting my coconut drink. The place itself looks very scetchy - but very good food and friendly people. We ate and drink as much as we could and the total bill was around seven dollars. The best fresh sqeezed orange juice we´ve ever had was only forty cents.



Today - Sunday - we took a walk to the pedestrian area just next to the hotel. There is a bridge that runs along the coast with a great view of the beach and walkways up into the forest\jungle area. Monkeys were playing near one end along with one of the huge lizards. And of course, there is a playground that the boys loved. They don´t even realize how much they stand out from the Malaysian kids playing with them.