So the plan for Saturday was to locate the Aquarium store on Jalan Burma. We slept in a bit later than we wanted, and then the cable installer came, This is the same cable installation we have been waiting for since the end of April, and we had to pay them $199RM to wait that long...THEN the total job took about 5 min to complete...there has to be some trick to this so that in case we want another TV hooked up...it doesn't take 2 months, cost $200RM and take 5 min. The thing is, that cable is not like in the states, unless it is like this if you live in a high rise. If we want all the TV's in the house to watch the same programing at the same time, that is easy, one time installation....If you want each TV to watch programing independent of each other, it is a separate installation, a separate billing...everything is separate...Is good to know however that the cable installation service is pretty much crap everywhere! So after the cable guy and lady left, we headed out to find the aquarium place. It was no problem to find, with the GPS helping us out, the problem was parking! We ended up having to park in the New World Park complex. New World Park is a big restaurant spot, there is also some shopping and at the time that we were there it was pretty crowded, kinda like the food court at the mall. We walked down a block to the Aquarium place, which was HUGE, it had a huge indoor pond with koi and other fish in it. We picked up a light for Brenna's tank, a thermometer, some new food, and 4 more fish, two more guppies, and two red sword tails. The place was really fun to walk around in and see all the neat stuff they had for sale. They had little rays, eels, turtles...it was cool! so back in the car and headed for home, We let the fish adjust to the water temp, and then set them free in the tank. Within minuets the two guppies were dead, and one of the sword tails died not long after that. Brenna now has one sword tail and the original Mr. Fins, who has outlived every fish we have had thus far...we are not doing well with the fish, and are thinking we need to get someone from one of these aquarium stores to come by and help us out...we cant keep killing fish, and Brenna said this morning..."i am tired of having fish funerals and flushing them down the toilet!". Saturday night was movie night and we all sat down to watch Fantasia 2000, with some popcorn. Despite the tragedy of the day we still had a nice Saturday.
Sunday broke with me going for a run...not so good...see the other blog. We also had the Soccer Experience, and Rox was headed to the gym, (GOOD FOR HER!!). the Soccer experience was fun today, Brenna got in a good sweat, and we had a simple lunch at Subway (better than Chili's or McDonald's) We headed home, and we are still at this point a 2 fish family, that is a good thing!! We decided it was time to get our guest bedroom ready for company...we are going with the "Field of Dreams" plan for the guest room...make it nice and they will come! We know that we are not expecting to see friends or family, it is so far and so expensive to get here, we are still hanging onto hope though...I mean Kevin Costner build a baseball field in an Iowa cornfield, and James Earl Jones showed up...I think its ok for us to hope!! So we bought new sheets, pillows and blankets for the room, hung our lighthouse pictures in there and are hoping that it creates some good karma!! We had some lunch in the mall at our favorite Dim sum place, and then did some grocery shopping. The rest of our Sunday should be relaxing and low key. I was supposed to have a client today also, but work caused a cancellation...it happens. Anyway, a great weekend here in Penang!! Until tomorrow, Goodnight all!!
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