Sea Shipment arrives!!

So today was a big day for the Neilson clan here in penang, the arrival of our Sea Shipment, the larger of the two shipments that we get. This one had some of our furniture in it, the rest of Brenna's toys, alot of our Kitchen stuff, pictures and nik nacks that make a house a home. Before that arrived though we did get to watch the lightning...lose, that was disappointing, one of the only hockey games we have gotten to see this playoff, and they lay an egg like that...ah well, they have had a great season!! We spent a good part of the day directing where boxes should go, then another significant part of the day directing where to put things when the boxes were empty. The sad part is that we are missing a box and we are missing some of our things, mostly our pottery from Maine, and a piece from a Lakeland art show. The saddest thing we are missing is Tigger's (our cat) ashes, in the urn we bought. We are hoping they find our missing box, the things in it are not replaceable. We were happy that we got the rest of it though, especially Brenna, her room is filled to exploding with stuffed animals now, and she was so happy that it all made the house "smell like home!" After the unpacking was done and some sorting, we decided to go up to the Persian/Indian rug auction and the Malacca Woodwork's show at the Eastern and Orient Hotel. We loved a few of the rugs that were there, and thought that we might be able to leave our highest bid with someone there, but before we did that we looked at the Malacca Woodwork's furniture...Wow, that's all I can really say, WOW, we loved a few pieces, but were looking for a book shelf, we decided on one we liked and went with the furniture instead of the rug, and we will be ordering at least one more piece at a later date. This is such beautiful furniture, and all hand made. We decided to get some dinner as we were all starving and ended up at Dome (with all of the great food around us we seem to end up at these crap food joints all the time) It is sometimes easier with Brenna to just do the places that have burgers, kills the eating right stuff for Rox and I, but Brenna boo was happy and that is a good thing!! Home again to finish some further sorting of stuff, getting Brenna's room sorted out, and in general getting more organized. Brenna got to Skype her school class back at home, that was fun for her!! Well here I am it is 24:44am on 21/05...It has been another great day here in Penang, until tomorrow!! Goodnight all!!