Monday, November 17, 2014

Lighthouse

Went for a hike to the  Muka Head lighthouse. It took about 3 hours from the park entrance. As well as a great view you can also get to explore inside a real working lighthouse.


Great to get to the top


Inside the lighthouse

Some weird posing

Coconut juice to hydrate back at the beach

Time to play


Halloween




I just felt so sorry for guy when our lift door opened.  Bet you he wasnt expecting this.








































Assorted eye ball. Very tasty













        Devils little helper


Hike



We have started to go hiking on the weekends




                                  
                


It gets a bit steep up Penang hill but if you lose your mind and flap your wings it seems to help




 Just take it all in

careful of traffic coming the other way


 and enjoy the scenery








Eyes open




Lots to see if you keep your eyes open




                I choose not to play on this childs swing complete with colour matching spider

                                                             No time to hang about


In our lift




Hornets nest

Scorpion








Birthday for Seren















Started with a cake at school





                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                                    
                                          
Then we went to adventure zone, caused a ruckus

after playing fueled up for more


You have got to be happy ...






when you have a large lego themed Chima cake



Rain


When it rains it pours. We were out at the main shopping boulevard and it was decided that i would go and get the car so we didnt all end up wet.  It was like stepping into a wall of water.

On the way two scooters went down in front of me. One dropped his in the wet and the other dropped theirs, trying to avoid the first. I went over to make sure they were OK. They were both laughing so figured all good apart from some scooter paintwork.

Took ages to finally get back to everyone with the car. The roads had turned to streams. When I finally got back there was an overturned car sitting in the road. The water had forced off the manhole cover and someone had rolled their car when they hit it.

It all happened in front of Glynis, Jamie and Seren. Glynis was comforting the man involved who had been cut when his windows smashed. What a night.

Tetris












                                 Tetris is being played on the streets of Penang.



                                                             tetris gif photo: tetris heart tetrisheart.gif

                           We had to drive around a piece dropped in the middle of the road





Jamie arrives




Put him to work straight away making pewter bowls
Being nice to turtles or hoping the turtle pyramid will collapse?



Mutant goldfish attack.

Cupping therapy is an ancient Chinese form of alternative medicine in which a local suction is created on the skin; practitioners believe this mobilizes blood flow in order to promote healing. Fire cupping involves soaking a cotton ball in 70% alcohol. The cotton is then clamped by a pair of forceps and lit via match or lighter. The flaming cotton ball is then, in one fluid motion, placed into the cup, quickly removed, and placed on the skin. By adding fire to the inside of the cup, oxygen is removed (which is replaced with an equal volume of carbon dioxide) and a small amount of suction is created by the air cooling down again. Massage oil may be applied to create a better seal as well as allow the cups to glide over muscle groups (e.g. trapezius, erectors, latisimus dorsi, etc.) in an act called "moving cupping". Dark circles may appear where the cups were placed due to rupture of the capillaries just under the skin, but are not the same as a bruise caused by blunt-force trauma.






Last year was so dry but this year it seems to rain everyday









Great for cooling off

























The crowd gathered to ponder why it did not rain on the shoeless one




























The vest is a real fashion statement. WW2 vintage and used by kamikaze. Obviously not this particular one.













                                                                     and more food