BBQ very nice!

Today we called our baby-sitter again. We haven't used her service since we got married even though baby-sitting is THE greatest invention since sliced bread. Knowing that Nelly was in safe hands we jumped in our car and drove west to Pantai Cenang. After a slow hand in hand stroll along the waterfront we found a nice place called La Sal where we ate the best god damn appetizer since we arrived to Malaysia: kataifi prawns.



The sunset played the role of dinner entertainment, the atmosphere was really quiet just what we were looking for.









In the water right in front of the restaurant they had an under water fence that blocked... well naturally we thought it was there to block sharks. But when I asked the waiter if they had problems with sharks he answered "No problem, shark barbecue very nice". So there you go, maybe we should stop worrying about sharks, the locals sure did long time ago.

Oh, and the fence was there to keep Jet-Skis away :-)

After dinner we slow danced on the beach to "Just the two of us" by Grover Washington Jr.

Meanwhile back in the apartment Nelly was playing hide-n-seek with the baby-sitter.

Half Swede half Poolish

This morning we took it real easy (vacation style). Just went down to the pool and let Nelly play around some. She was skeptical at first, like she always is but then she lit up.











It is an interesting neighborhood we live in! It feels like we got into a little society of its own, which created its own rules and if you happen to ignore them or misunderstand them, you will get a gentle yet determined warning so you behave next time. Our neighbors are nice and they insist on always greeting one another when there's an eye contact. It seems like it is important to them to keep the feeling that they know each other a little bit. They learned our names right away and they use them often, so you "almost" get a feeling that you belong. Not that we have any problem with any of this it's just ... I don't know sometimes it feels weird to be forced to be nice to strangers all the time (god I'm Swedish). It really is a closed apartment complex where we live, I'm not gonna go so far and say it's like in that movie "La Zona" but you never know what's gonna happen if you suddenly broke one of all the unwritten rules they have here.

The Life Aquatic

Yesterday we took the car to Underwater World Langkawi located right in the middle of the tourist delta Pantai Cenang. It's about a 30 minute ride from our place. It was fun to see real live versions of everything from our Finding Nemo DVD. My favorite character the seagulls were not present, but then on the other hand, if Nelly could speak she would fill that void in a second going "Mine, mine, mine" all the time.

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!

Various pictures from Westin

Our gorgeous daughter!






The love of my life (big one and mini one)


























We are still waiting for the pictures from our wedding. We shall receive them after 22nd February.

Everyday people

We have moved out from Westin where we had our wedding. We're still in Langkawi but now in a 3-room apartment at the Chogm Villa apartment complex. This will be our base until 22nd March. But from here we plan to make several short trips. More on that later, when we know, you know. Life now seems much more like everyday life to me. For example today I had to drop off all the dirty laundry we had, it cost us 5 SEK per kilo (2 zl). Then I had to go grocery shopping. When I got home Beata made us pancakes.

Tonight we're just gonna stay home and chill, we have wine and we borrowed a couple of dozen DVDs from Rob our nice host so I think we're all set. Tomorrow we'll rent a car so that we can start exploring the rest of this beautiful island.

Picture below is our view from the balcony.

Newly wed!

Saturday will be a day to remember, it's the day Beata and I got married! Lots of pictures were taken, but they are not at our disposal just yet, they're being developed by our professional photografer Aloha (whom we flew in from Bangkok). So we, as well as you reading this will have to wait patiently to see pictures from this magical day.

It was in some ways a very stressful day with a packed schedule. Early in the morning we had our first photo shoot down by the beach, after that there was just a small window before there was time for "the villa shoot" in our beach villa at Westin hotel. After that Beata had to sit with the make-up artist plus fix her hair and dress. By 18.30 we got a ride in something that can only be described as a golf car (Nelly loved it) to the pier where the ceremony were about to start. Just one more photo shoot with the sunset as background and then the ceremony started.

"Bottles & Cans" by Angie Stone feels like "our song" so that was the one we'd chosen to play as we walked up to the... I don't know his official title but the jolly guy who was about to conduct the marriage ceremony. He talked for a while about mutual respect and what not, I don't really remember because I was mesmerized of how stunning Beata looked with the gentle Malaysian sea breeze toying with her hairdo. Nelly was of course also present, wearing a pink and white princess dress plus a ribbon in her hair... well she ain't got much hair, but you get the idea. Right after the ceremony our babysitter Gaya took her back to the villa so that newly wed mom and dad could enjoy their dinner.

The always smiling Westin personnel set the table (we're still on the pier that you can see on top of this blog). The food was unbelievable. My memory fails me right now so I can't tell you exactly what we ate. But the starter was tuna something, and then a juicy steak with mashed potatoes & grilled vegetables. And the dinner ended with a creme brulé look-a-like-kind-of-thing.

After dinner we were offered a ride back to the villa but Beata and I felt like walking. When we got back home we found out that the Westin staff had "prepared" it for us while we're gone. There were roses from the front gate leading up to our bed on which we found a present to us, as well as a beautiful heart shape made out of even more roses. I don't know what they were implying ;-) . Plus we got champagne and chocolate covered strawberries, it was beautiful. And since Nelly was sleeping we had all the time in the world to enjoy it, which we did out by our own private pool which was decorated with roses, candles and balloons. It was magical. A perfect ending to a very special day!

Many thanks and best wishes to everyone in Langkawi who helped us with the event and to all our friends and family back home who thought of us on this special day.