Update on our adventures in KL

 We are still in temp housing for the next month until our place is ready.

Andrew is now putting on his own new shoes.  All the kids here wear crocs (or fake crocs).  Andrew's have the Japanese cartoon Ben 10 on them.

Mike has been out of town a bit (he is currently in Osaka) so Helen and I have been having a ton of adventures.

 Helen's friend Janah came to visit to meet the boys (she hears all about them from Helen) so she wanted a pic with them to take home to show her family.

I went to lunch with some of my expat friends from church to a fab Chinese restaurant at the Pavilion.

Then Hilary and I went shopping.  I put together the list of places to go and her driver took us.  She has a driver.  How cool is that.

 Here is this warehouse of Chinese antiques called Lasting Impressions.

 Seriously the most beautiful pieces.

Next up, grocery shopping!

We usually do our Grocery Shopping at the nearby Cold Storage but it is really expensive since it is an expat area.  This week Helen and I took the boys to Tesco.  It is a bit farther out but it is huge, and reminded me of a mix of the Tesco we shopped at in London and Walmart from the states.

Later Helen was going out with her daughter and grandsons so they stopped by the house to pick her up.  I was so excited to meet her grandson Eeshawnth.  He is 3.5 just about one year older than Andrew.  He is so beautiful and full of energy. 
He made himself right at home and did not want to leave.

Check out his smile.  So gorgeous.

 Helen and her grandson.  Precious.

Helen is Indian Malaysian, so her daughter brought some Indian food from the local Indian restaurant Leaf.  The restaurants put all the "take away" curries in little bags.  This is Masala dosa.  

TO DIE FOR. 

 Joseph is growing a ton.  He is now pulling himself up on everything and starting to cruise.  He is the happiest little guy and quite the superstar in our building (and pretty much every store we ever go in).

 One day after Andrew's OT appointment we stopped by the buddhist temple on Jalan Ipoh to get some vegetarian Chinese food.  They have the best tofu chicken and pork.  It even looks like meat.  And it is more expensive than a typical dish with meat because their tofu is high quality and they spend time preparing it to make it just as good as meat.

Helen took Andrew up to order while I waited in the car with Joseph.

YUM!

Rough week

It was a rough week.

• Mike was out of town.
• There was a cockroach in Joseph's car seat.
• Andrew got sick.

Did I mention there was a cockroach in Joseph's car seat?

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On a separate note I did get to go furniture shopping with a friend.  We heard about a Chinese import place crammed with legit antiques (called Danasty nonetheless).  It was quite an adventure.

A quick vid.

Mike is in Osaka this week, so I went house hunting without him. I found a place (below) and made an offer and he hasn't even seen it. He saw the building last week but not this unit. Hence, this video is for Mike. Mike, I really hope you like it because if not, we're pretty much stuck.



Here's an explanation of some parts of the video (it has been quite a learning process learning about how Malaysians build high-end condos).

The first scene shows the private lift lobby (that is pretty standard here).
There are two kitchens (one "dry," one "wet" for the heavy cooking).
That dark room off the wet kitchen is a maid's room (everyone except us seems to have a live in maid).
For some reason there is a balcony off the master shower (strange I know--for access to air con unit maybe?).
The windowed room off the family room is actually a patio (you can pull back all the window/doors).
Each bedroom has its own bathroom (which we won't even use).
There are hard floors throughout. No carpet anywhere (hot weather thing?).
There are usually several agents at each viewing (at least one for client, one for landlord).