Trishaws

This mode of transportation used to be used all over SE Asia. Well it still is, but mostly for tourists. But in Malacca it seemed more than just tourist took advantage of the ride. It is a serious art to decorate your ride!

This is the center square by a Christian church and where all the trishaws wait...

Devin and his Mom having a ride...Genevieve and I are in another behind them

Malacca

At the night market, this man was making the most delicious pancakes and you could choose different fillings: chocolate, chocolate and peanuts, kaya which is coconut spread, fruit etc.

...Obama tee shirts

Devin, Nevi and Grandma Jan rode up a little space needle for a view of Malacca from the sky!

back to the Malaysia road trip

Ok now I have all the road trip pictures in one place- thank you , Devin! So now for you all to see more of the beautiful country we live in! This is Genevieve at the night market in Malacca. Malacca is a beautiful historic town on the western coast about 2 hours north of where we live in JB.

Here we are walking down a side street on the way to the night market.

We were in Malacca for Deepavali. These colored rice patterns are made for Deepavali. This one was on the floor in the lobby of our great hotel called the Puri Hotel.

Thanksgiving Post #2

The day after Thanksgiving we had such a lovely day at the pool. Felt so strange to be in the sunshine frolicking when usually we would be in the rain or even snow! We are very thankful for this tropical reality! This is a local dessert called ABC with Cendol. It is basically shaved ice with palm sugar syrup, little jelly pieces, corn, red bean and noodles which are green and a scoop of ice cream on top! It is called ABC which stands for air batu campur which in English is something like water, rock blended. Thus- blended ice!

Devin likes it-yum!

The view from my chaise lounge~

Dinner

yum: Cranberry chicken and stuffing

Mashed regular and sweet potato

green beans

pumpkin pudding with fresh whipped cream!

Oh yeah- we did pretty well for being in a country that has no idea what Thanksgiving is:)

Thanksgiving 2009

For Thanksgiving this year we had our dear friends, The Ryans here for dinner. They are from Australia~ so this was their first Thanksgiving. We were honored to have them spend it with us. It was really fun! Hannah and Nevi reading to each other after dinner.

Devin crackin up and Kate giggling too.

Mike with both girls on his lap!

preparation

Genevieve made beautiful place cards.

Our set table with the desk as an extension!

Nevi cutting the ends off the beans...she also washed the potatoes and sliced them for the mashers! Thanks for the help super star!