Back in Langkawi

I don’t know that I have said this yet, but Langkawi apparently translates roughly to “Eagle’s Roost”. There are absolutely beautiful red clay colored eagles floating all around the island. I don’t think I’ve ever seen them that color in real life though I have seen them in paintings before. There is a big statue of one such colored eagle in the harbor coming into the main port. Taking photos of that was among the few noteworthy events of our first day back in Langkawi.

    Barb and Tami had taken a women’s sailing course last year, and they had agreed to have the instructor come out and teach the course again this year on their boat. She was set to arrive on the fifth, our first day back in Malaysia, so Barb and Dad were busy getting things ready for her arrival. The boat also had developed a few tech issues that needed to be corrected prior to it being turned over to them when we leave. This meant most everyone else was occupied for the day. This worked out pretty well, as Crys and I were both a bit sunburned and completely exhausted, so a day off was certainly in order. We walked down to the Jetty mall/port down the street from us and had some breakfast. Crys wanted some tylenol so we tried searching it out. There was a 7/11 in the jetty mall that seemed to have basic things like that so we wandered over there. Turns out that it had pregnancy tests, but no aspirin. One would think there would be a higher demand for the aspirin, but what do I know? Anyway, we remembered that the mall further down the street had a Guardian, which is the local equivalent of a pharmacy, so we wandered up the street to it. It’s actually a reasonably cool mall with many interesting shops, so we wound up spending a good portion of the day hanging out there. We did some more shopping, then stopped in at the Hidden Recipe and ate some tasty lunch. I decided to go with a ‘western’ meal of fish and chips, thinking rightfully that the fish should be pretty good. Crys went with a more traditional meal of local fried rice and skewers of satay (meat grilled in a peanut sauce). While different from the Indonesian version she’s used to, she said it too was very tasty. 

   We returned to the yacht club to discover that the day was quickly turning into one of the hottest since we’d been here. It capped out for some time at around 101F, and was fairly miserable outside. Since the boat doesn’t have its cover back on, it too didn’t cool down too much, so we decided to head up to the covered clubhouse where the shade and a normal breeze tends to drop the temp some twenty+ degrees and spend the heat of the day catching up a bit on the interwebs. We returned in time to meet up with the others on their way to Wonderland again, the place where we had the tasty snapper and other foods the other night. We got pretty much the same meal as last time (why mess with something good?) before returning to shower and crash for the eve.