Week 39: Sep 10 to 16

Monday Steve handed in 2 papers he has been working on for a while and he was relieved to be finished. He was home late all week though.
Tuesday night we went out for dinner at Chinoz, Wednesday night Toni and I went out for a drink at the Traders.
Thursday night Lachlan had a musical performance at school.
I kept the kids home from school Friday as we were flying to Langkawi at 3:10. Steve went to work and I spent the morning packing. At about 10 I asked the kids if they wanted to go and see Will and Kate in KLCC park. They didn't seem that excited but said sure, so we got ready and walked over to the park. The main road we live on was blocked to traffic and halfway to the park we saw the entire procession drive past. We got a spot right on the fence and waited for another 20 minutes. They walked by quite quickly but looked gorgeous. We then were interviewed by British tv, which Lachlan was most excited about. We went back home, waited for Steve to get home, then drove to the airport. We arrived at our hotel in Langkawi by 5 and went straight out to have a walk around and an early dinner. The service was great, much better than we are used to in KL. the kids even got free ice cream.
The next day we had a relax by the pool and the beach after breakfast. Then we walked down Pantai Cenang to have lunch and do some duty free shopping. We went back to the hotel, played some 500, then caught a taxi to the jetty for our sender cruise. The cruise was great! Free flow drinks, great food, the crew were all so lovely and friendly. We even had a long chat with the owner of the company who also owns the restaurant we went to the night before. The view was spectacular and after sailing for about an hour they put the 'saltwater jacuzzi' net out. Just before we got on the boat it was raining quite heavily so it was a nice surprise to get a beautiful sunset. Lachlan spent a lot of time practicing on his new camera he got on Friday morning as an early birthday present.

We hired a car in Sunday. Our first stop was Oriental Village and Cable Car. There was a big queue and all up we spent over 3 hours there. Though unfortunately between Lachlan's camera, Danae's iPod and my phone none of us had a camera with any battery life, so after 1 photo of the view halfway up the cable car we had no photos for the rest of the day. After the cable car we were going to drive up to the waterfall, but decided it was later than we had wanted to leave so we didn't. We stopped at black sand beach and then drove to Kuah, the main town in Langkawi island. We went to a Chinese seafood restaurant for dinner.