malaysia {pt. the end}

friday/saturday: we kept the last couple of days pretty low-key. we took a short boat ride to another island just off the coast of kota kinabalu to do yet some more swimming and snorkeling. we also spent some time at the pool at the condo.



i know this one is almost identical to the one above, but i just had to post it for one reason - Elias.

dang, who is that hottie?
{i'm talking about that one with the floaties ;)}

Liam's most said quote from the trip: "Jae, you are always so silly!"

ready to get our snorkel on

it's a hard knock life for this kid when he has to spend the day at the beach

i could not get enough of this boy. he turned into a little fish on this trip.

Hattie decided Anne (her mother) needed dance-in-the-pool lessons. like, duh! so funny haha. Anne is such a good sport.

sunday: we took a flight to Singapore. our flight leaving Singapore didn't leave until Monday morning so we booked a hotel for the night. we got into Singapore around 230pm so we had the afternoon to get comfy in our hotel room and explore a bit. it's safe so say we would love to plan another trip back to vacation in Singapore. we didn't see much because of our short amount of time there, but what we saw, we loved. plus everyone was SO nice and helpful which is huge when you're in a strange, unknown country. there were lots of interesting food places and dessert stops just down the street from the hotel, so we took a walk around to check them out, but we just wanted to hang out and chill. our hotel had 2 pools, one on ground-level and one on the roof. the rooftop pool had views straight out to the ocean. plus the airport wasn't too far away so you could see plane after plane coming and they were super close. it was so awesome! then we got freshened up and hit the buffet! holy amazing buffet. we ate a.lot. it was the perfect relaxing day for just Jae and i.

that would be a caramel frappachino & chocolate banana muffin for ms. mara. in the airport awaiting our flight.



customary hotel room pic

pool #1

pool #2

had the pool basically to ourselves. it was so nice.

dessert & fruit spread!

monday: got on a plane, ready to head home :)

fall 2012 photos

a couple of weeks ago, we spent a monday evening up in the beautiful fall canyon with Mary, taking some pictures. the colors were amazing. i have these pictures in black & white too, which i love, but the colors were to awesome to share them in just b&w. and of course, i hate narrowing, so here's pretty much all of them.

have a look :)

thanks Mary!!

malaysia {pt. 3}

thursday: we went to the Mari-Mari culteral village. we've heard it's comparable to the Polynesian cultural center in Hawaii. we got a tour of all the different tribes of the Malay people, and their different ways of life. to sum it up - basically they like to make wine, their houses generally consist of grandparents, parents, and children altogether, and they have super cool dances/songs/chants. i'll let the pictures speak for themselves. (warning - i feel like there's an especially gigantic amount of pictures on this one. so good luck with that.) PS it was SO hot and muggy that day (not that that was different than any other day..)

there were chickens roaming. it was kind of a big deal for the kids.

we got married (again) in Malay fashion. plus Jae got to wear this sweet pink hat thing.

a birdcage (Chels, this one was for you ;))

Jae got to be named Chief!! he had to go before the rest of our group and convince them to let us in. good thing they liked him.

shooting "spears" into a hanging coconut target

it took me two tries, but i hit the bullseye!

tattoos. turns out they're pretty expert at angry bird drawings.

Hyde & Liam with angry birds, Hattie with hello kitty

the Chiefs tribal tattoo

i messed mine up about 30 seconds after it was done. dangit.

trying to learn their moves without getting his feet smashed in those wood poles

and to round out the day, Eli stuffed his face. it was pretty awesome.

today to a T

anyone else often feel this way?