Malaysia trip 2010

We've all just returned from our Malaysian trip and had a lovely time! Aliya and Aran had loads of fun and learnt and saw loads of new things.  Here's a sampling of all the sights to be seen in Malaysia:

Most prominent were the abundance of these strange furry purple/pink creatures everywhere. Apparently originating from China, they seem to have populated Malaysia in their hundreds! I'm not very sure what they're called....but the kids loved them!

Here are some furless local creatures who inhabited a local shopping centre  and pretty much spend their entire lives going round in circles (similar to what I was told Scottish haggis do when I first set foot in Scotland)!

We also met some very strange fish! Instead of going out for a meal, we went to a fish 'restaurant' where the fish eat humans for dinner!! These are the garra rufa 'doctor fish' from Turkey, who apparently nibble away the top layers of your skin, leaving you with baby soft feet -- Luverly! (Aliya wasn't so sure.)

Just to get our own back, we did have some fishy meals - here's a 'flying' fish:

And of course, mummy's favorite ... sushi! (Actually sashimi).

Aran met another variety of fish which he enjoyed...

Aliya hanging out at the local fish tank (actually our jacuzzi in our hotel room at PD, heheh) :

With the abundance of fish around, there were also plenty of cats - to keep the eco-system in balance, I guess! Here's the most popular of Kow Foo's 3 cats (and also Aran/Aliya's favorite) - the long suffering Souseki (see that pained look in his eyes?):  

Of course, we spent lots of time with Por Por and Kung Kung:

And also met a million uncles and aunties, like Aunty Henny & cousin Marcus:

And even had time to peek over at our neighbours (the King !) who seemed to be doing some minor renovation work...

Aliya met Paddington Bear, who has migrated from London and is now enjoying KL sunshine!

And Aran met Thomas the Tank engine, who also seems to have migrated! Who would have known that all these British have retired to Msia!

We also learnt new skills, most notably swimming:

Aran learnt some survival skills ... here seen running away from daddy pretending to be a shark:

Aliya learnt to walk on water!!

... and was very smug about it!

                             

And Daddy learnt to drive a Porsche...ahem!

And mummy learnt to pig out!

Well - all good things come to an end. Three weeks were over very quickly and then it was back to life in sunny England (it is in fact quite sunny these days)!  More to come soon...but for now, I leave you with a Malaysian sunset: