Penang - Malaysia

We spent 6 nights with Cyndi, in her amazing apartment in Penang. I already knew Cyndi before leaving Australia and had lived with her in London, with Sarah. Ian and I met each other at Cyndi´s 30th Birthday weekend away, so she takes much credit for us being together. She is now living in Malaysia for 2 years teaching at an International Primary School. Well there´s the context! Our time spent with Cyndi was quite lazy. She had a album full of DVD´s so we watched heaps. We seemed to have brought the rain with us, so this was our excuse to sit inside and enjoy her apartment (somewhere on the twentith floor, overlooking a huge swimming pool, and the sea). Even on the day she left us her car to explore the town, we only managed to get out of her place an hour before we needed to pick her up from work! Lazy and lov´n it. She did take us to a fantastic locals food market for dinner one night. The Indian meal was sooo yummy, and cheap. We also got very creative for her Teachers Christmas Pub Crawl (that we only stayed in the first pub! Not what we know as a pub crawl!), as we had to go in feative costume. I´ve never seen Ian be so artsy, craftsy! It was great. We practially spent a day cutting, pasting, major glittering (to the point that it wouldn´t dry and we had to use two hair dryers). Ian made large cut out Christmas trees and decorated them, mine was cut out Christmas crackers (bon bons), which we had one on the front and back of us, attached with string. In the pub we both quickly discarded the ones on our backs - not that comfortable or practical in a packed bar! Cyndi wore a striped silver dress that we attached bells around the hem, and tinsel around the bust. She made a wire tinseled angel´s halo, and a little wand. With her huge silver platform boots, she looked great! Can´t say that we actually saw any sights. Doesn´t matter. It was a great catch up.