Mansur's Birthday!

Yesterday, April 21st was Mansur's birthday. Since he had to go to work, we had a nice breakfast together and met downtown in the evening to go to a restaurant with some friends. We ate shabushabu, a Japanese dish. There is a pot of boiling water in the center and you boil meat, Chinese cabbage, mushroom, quail eggs, tofu, spring onions, Chinese dumplings, etc. Then, you put it on a small, individual bowl that already contains a sauce and eat it from there. There were three types of sauces: sesame, shoyu and spicy. All you can eat for only US $15. Cool, huh?
Well, check out the pictures and look for familiar faces!!!


Amir and his wife Anna, with their baby girl, Mitra (left)
Hamid and his wife Hitomi, with their baby boy, Kurosh (right)


Mansur-jan, Masa and Benjamin


Kaori, Yoko, Hana, Leah and Frazer (Hana works with Mansur and I at the elementary school we teach at)


Ali and Fahimeh (left)
Andrew, his wife Keiko, and their baby girl, Alisha (right)


World's #1 Happy Couple! (If you have a partner, I pray you can say the same!)


Mansur, Johnathan, Masa, Benjamin, and Kendra (Johnathan's wife)


Andrew and Alisha. She looks like him, especially the chin!


Vivian, practicing....


Once again, the lovely couple!


2 cakes! In Japan, the cakes are so tiny, I had to get 2!!!! If you have never been to Japan and do not know what we go through to have a decent birthday party, you can laugh at the size of the cakes!!!!


My Love, opening the gift I gave him. A GUESS watch!


Us, at the station, heading back home!







This Is what I did to my hair. It is my newest creation. It took forever, but it looked cool. I used a silk scarf to match my dress.

More Pictures of Malaysia!

Hey guys. These are a few more pictures from our trip. I dowloaded them to our computer a little later, so I am uploading them here now. I hope you enjoy! There are some shots taken from the airplane that show some of the islands in Kota Kinabalu. Others are from our hotel room in Kuala Lampur, which had a great view!



Garden of our hotel in Kota Kinabalu!






This was a beautiful Malaysian girl who palyed a traditional instrument at the hotel lobby!














This was the location of our hotel in Kota Kinabalu. We were located at the peninsula! Beautiful!

Trip to Malaysia

We were in Malaysia for about 8 days. We had a great time. Two years ago, we visited Sabah, a region that belongs to Malaysia but is located on an island that is shared with Indonesia and Brunei. it is absolutely beautiful. The name os the city is Kota Kinabalu and it has 5 islands on its coast, where the sea is gorgeous, the nature marvelous and the variety of fish amazing. We swam the whole day, feeding bread to the fish, who ate from our own hands. They were all sorts of colors, sizes and shapes. An experience that will never be forgotten!

After 6 nights at a Shangri-la resort in Kota Kinabalu, we spent a night in Kuala Lampur!