Friday, December 25, 2009
Christmas Eve Day
On the day of Christmas Eve we decided to go to have lunch at the Tanjung Rhu Resort. The resort is located on a pristine beach looking out towards Thailand. One of the unique features of this particular beach is the artificially created sandbar that you can walk out into the cove on. After a super tasty lunch we walked out on the sandbar for a bit before heading up the beach to find some shade and toss the frisbee. Here are some pics from our disc throwing session and one from the entrance to the resort looking out toward the beach. I'll have more pics of the beach up in a bit.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
More Langkawi Pics
Today we rented scooters and decided to zip up the coast to the Langkawi Cable Car which takes you up to the top of the second highest peak on Langkawi. Upon arrival we were surprised to find a two hour wait to get into a gondola and head to the top of the mountain. It was really hot and we didn't fell like sitting in the hot sun for two hours so we decided to try our luck again on Thursday. It looked pretty awesome though. The gondola takes you right up the side of the mountain which I think would be more accurately described as a cliff.
Since we postponed our gondola trip we decided to check out the petting zoo instead. There were two kinds of animals, deer and rabbits. You could by the same food and feed it to both, which we did.
On our way back Jen got into a little fender bender with a car which lucky enough turned out to be quite minor. One of the pics in todays lot is her sitting on the hood with the owner of the car she ran into. Lucky for everyone we were laughing about it by lunch.
If you notice in another pic Liz is sitting by a sign that warns of jellyfish. She was stung last night and had to go to the hospital. It was a brutally painful ordeal but she is finally recovering. What a bummer!
We finished the evening in the same manner in which we have since arriving; having dinner on the beach while the sun set into the ocean.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
First Day in Langkawi
Here are some pics from our first day in Langkawi. From the looks of it I think we'll be able to tough it out here for the next week.
Friday, December 18, 2009
KL
An article on visiting KL while we're visiting KL:http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/travel/20hours.html
Batu Caves
Here are some pics from our trip to Batu Cave today. To reach the cave you must climb 272 steps. It was well worth the climb even though we had to deal with some mischievous monkeys.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
New Inner City Bike Design
Interesting looking bike design: http://www.jruiter.com/jruiter/conceptsLatest.php
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Halloween
Of course Halloween was a big event for Q. I think it's the first Halloween where he kind of understands what is going on. J, Q, our friend Ben and I all hopped in the car and went down to the Halloween store. It may sound like no big deal, and it really isn't, but it is a bit of an undertaking going into the city. Anytime you have to drive into the city it ends up taking most of the day. Mostly this is OK because you end up getting a tasty meal somewhere along the way and seeing some cool stuff.
It only took us about 20 minutes to locate the Halloween store after arriving in the neighborhood, or dong as it's called in Korea. This might seem like a long time, but trying to read poorly written directions in Korean posed a bit of a challenge. Ben and I had actually been to the exact store last year but things in the neighborhood had changed and it was dark the last time we were there. Needless to say it was a success and we all left with costumes.
Although we did celebrate Halloween at school we didn't go out on Halloween proper. We all were feeling a bit run down so we decided to take it easy and stay in. It was predicted to be in the low 30's by Monday so we decided to get out while we could still enjoy the weather. On Sunday we went for brunch at one of our favorite restaurants in the neighborhood and then out for a picnic later in the afternoon.
Oh I should mention that we got Beatles Rock Band. It is cooler than I would like to admit. Q likes it, especially "Yellow Submarine" and "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".
These are some pics from the last week.
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