Due to work I ended up spending the weekend in Penang which allowed me to see a little more of the island. Friday night was spent on the 31st floor overlooking the Straights of Malacca and some of the hillier parts of the island as one of our colleagues had been nice enough to invite us over for dinner. He had spent some time in Texas and while there acquired a taste for BBQ and has become quite proficient with a smoker. He's even gotten to the point that he had staked a claim to a tree that had fallen down on his way to work so he could replenish his wood stock.
We all had a good laugh trying to figure out how long it would take for the wood to dry out enough to use, but he knew what he was doing. Wasn't expecting to have smoked ribs and sausage for dinner that night, that is for sure.
After that meal I figured I better get back in the pool the next day and crank out some laps, but there were kids everywhere. I was shocked because the hotel pool is narrow enough that I can practically stretch my arms across the entire width. It almost looked like the scene from Caddyshack when they let all the caddies into the pool, it was that full. This weekend was the Hari Raya (end of Ramadan) celebration in Malaysia though, and just like the US it seemed like people thought it would be a great idea to check into a hotel just so the kids could go swimming. Sufficiently stymied (and still not ready to go for a run outside) I got lazy and figured reading Sports Illustrated might count for something.
Saturday evening we again headed up just past Georgetown for dinner. We were about as far from BBQ ribs though as you could get. If you're going to constantly be surrounded by water you might as well eat at a fish market, right? You could pick out your own shrimp, crab, lobster, fish and a couple other items that I had no idea what they were other than they were seafood and you could eat them (allegedly). Someone would just run and grab what you wanted, they would bring it back to the kitchen and a little while later out came our meal. Apparently we should have bargained more to get some better prices, but still cheaper than back in the States.
A few more days and then back to Singapore for a longer weekend. It'll be great because I was just getting used to our bed again and got sent packing. Will post more photos of our new place this weekend, plus we have a black and white party for Sarah's school on Saturday. I own a white polo shirt..... hopefully that's good enough.
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