Ok, so the day began with some serious sleeping in, for Rox and I anyway, Brenna was up at 6AM ready to get her fish. We had planned to do two things for sure today, the Dragon Boat races and head down to Air Itam to see about a fish. We had a chance to Skype with Uncle Jim, Aunt Angie and Kirstin.It is really great to see family hooking into the Skype video calling!! So we saddled up and got off to the Dam. Roxanne has become a very confident and proficient driver here, she loves the Batu Ferrengi road, its so twisty and turny!! The Dam was beautiful, and the Dragon boat races were exciting and fun, we wish we could have gotten just a bit closer, but i am sure for safety reasons they kept the public at a safe distance.
We spent a few hours taking pictures and watching the races, and then headed out to get some lunch, we were going to go by the Hard Rock Cafe, however, we missed the turn and ended up at the Spice market Cafe at the Rasa Sayang Resort (beautiful). We had a great lunch, and i tried some Nasi Lemak, loved the beef , chicken and prawns (the prawns were very spicy but good), the Ikan Bilis which was little dried salted fish...those have to be an acquired taste, because I just could not stomach them! I am sure this version was cooked for the tourist, but it was very good!! We headed home, and got in a quick power nap...the sun and the heat just takes everything out of you!! Then we got out and tried, with a substantial amount of success, to find the pet store that carried the fish. It was huge, and Brenna was at a loss to decide what she wanted to get. So she settled on some guppies, and she got 4 of them, we also got a small tank and some stones to put in the bottom and some plants (plastic) to dress it up a bit. She is very happy and so are we, fish don't live that long so we don't need to face having to give up another pet in two years when we leave here. I have to admit though, the little robo-hamsters were cute!! So it was back home for us, and settling in for the night, neither of us wanted to cook, so we did the leftovers and sandwiches thing, which was fine, Roxanne was sporting a terrible headache and I was needing to do my core workout stuff, and Brenna well she was perfectly happy with a PB&J and some grapes. So another great day in Penang, i really do love it here, and already am finding myself seeing it as tough to leave when the time comes!!
Anyway, goodnight all!! until tomorrow!!
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