Leaving Langkawi

Bags are packed, postcards sent, rental car returned, hate to say it but we're leaving Langkawi. We've been here for more than 6 weeks now and it has been fantastic! This is the island were we got married and where our daughter celebrated her first birthday so it feels emotional to leave. But like the song says, "It's easier to leave than to be left behind". Plus we're on our way to a new exciting place, tomorrow we'll be in Singapore!

Our last night in Langkawi we spent at Bar Rhu. Nelly stayed home with her kind nanny Gaya, we're gonna miss her a lot. She is the reason that parts of our stay here felt like a real honeymoon.

Bar Rhu is another must visit if you've ever in Langkawi, great drinks, good food, stunning view. What more can you wish for really? Pool table? Well they have that too. Yesterday they also had a live band performing covers. The highlight for us was when they played "(they long to be) close to you" one of our personal favorites.

"Why do birds suddenly appear
Every time you are near?
Just like me, they long to be
Close to you"

Meanwhile back in our apartment at Chogm Villa.





Bar Rhu at Tanjung Rhu beach.






















And a glass of wine later...

Birthday girl

Happy Birthday Nelly also know as Plutt, a.k.a. Mini, a.k.a. Terror, a.k.a. Princess, a.k.a. Miss Lenngren, you are exactly one year old today! Your birthday was supposed to be on 9th March, but you were in a hurry to turn our world upside down.

Here in Malaysia most things feel upside down compared to safe Sweden. Cars are driving on the "wrong" side of the street, complete strangers are kind, the media coverage of the Winter Olympics is non-existing and the temperature is heavenly 30 degrees plus.

Still, life here is easy to get used to. Daddy doesn't have to go to work in the morning (mommy loves that too!), instead he can join the Lenngren girls and splash around in the pool, every morning and every evening. Speaking of pool, hope you like your present!

We think that it's amazing how fast you embraced our new lifestyle here in Malaysia (the Malaysian people certainly embraced you). You are a pleasure to travel with! On our three days journey to Kuala Lumpur you didn't complain or cry even for a second - always kept your curious look and cute smile, even when mom and dad lost theirs at the Bangkok airport.

At times you are real pain in the ass (you know that, don't you) but you make our world complete and we love you more than life. However, we would not mind if one day in the near future you would choose to sleep all through the night.

Happy Birthday Sweetie!

Paradise beach

We got wheels. We've rented a car so that we'll be free to go wherever we want. The car looks like something from MTV's Pimp my Ride show, only before Xzibit picks it up and drives it down to Mad Mike and the rest of the West Coast Customs crew.

Anyway, it's rolling and today for the premier ride it took us to Tanjung Rhu Beach which is breathtaking perfection!!











The water feels great, it's warm but cold enough to cool you off. The only problem is that I'm panically afraid of the sharks who happily lives here. Not that I'm implying that I'm the most delicious bite in the sea, but you never know what kind of diet they are on!

Later on we tried some tasty local food served right by the beach, treated ourselves to coconut juice (which to be honest looks much more exciting than it tastes), followed by noodles with prawns and paid for everything 28 SEK (11 PLN) jippi!!



On our way home we picked up the laundry and robbed (cause it's really dirt cheap) the local fruit market. Now it's time to enjoy the mangos, the watermelons and the what nots on our balcony. What can I tell you, life is good!