You know you made a good decision about where to stay when you walk out of your Air BnB and you are opposite Malaysia's finest chocolate house... What luck! We thought it would be rude not to visit. Needless to say, the children were pretty chuffed!
What was really good about this place (apart from that it has some of the finest chocolate known to humanity) was that it had a little timeline in English of the story of how chocolate is made. The cacao is grown in Malaysia and there was enough information for it to be interesting, without being overwhelming. It was really fun to hold a cacao pod and see the beans inside...
We read together all the processes of chocolate production from field to shelf...
Then we went to go consume some chocolate. Well, I had a coffee... of course.
and Miles had a good laugh!
Caden had a hot choc! It was mighty fine!
Miles chose an apple crumble cheesecake... I ate a bit, my God it was good! Really good!
We found a shopping mall very close to our place and Caden was delighted to add to his horrible histories collection with three books that he doesn't yet have! The topics he will now be reading about are The Blitz, WW1 and all about Pirates!
We saw a few amusing little things like this Shut Happens sign! He he!
Since it's Coronavirus time, we were scanned for our temperatures twice on entry to the mall and made to disinfect with hand gel at various points around the mall. So many people are wearing masks. We are not wearing them, I only have one mask each and I don't know if it's actually worth it. If we end up in a crowd/airport or something bad where there is a lot of people I will get the masks out then! They will be most effective at that time! They cannot be reused. The virus can get in through the eyes too... I'm telling the kids to just wash and wash and wash their hands but also trying to live normally and not in fear! I am pretty worried though if I am honest. It's becoming increasingly clear that we aren't going to make it back to Europe in 4 weeks with the way things currently are! The question is going to be more, where do we stay, do I go back to Thailand for a month with my partner and sit it out or stay in Malaysia for as long as I need to? It is hard to know right now because I don't have enough information. My decision will be based on how likely we are to be quarantined, put into another country or catch the virus, which despite feeling robust health-wise, I don't fancy having to deal with!! There is also the concern of the measures that the country we are in takes if the SHTF (shit hits the fan!)... what may they do if things are very bad? So hard to know.. I trust France about as much as I trust Thailand or Malaysia so again, no idea! I am in the process of upgrading our travel and health insurance!
Meanwhile back at the ranch... Miles was enjoying a chicken burger for lunch! This kid! Noone would ever believe he used to be 100% raw and loved avocado and green juice! He LOVED my green juice smoothies... even the really dark green flavours.. now he recoils at the sight of lettuce...
More amusement....
They were so happy to find a lego shop... This is Kai apparently...
It was important to mention that Lego has made stranger things and they even have little lego aliens... kinda cool!
Caden gave me hell last night when our taxi dropped us at the wrong place and we had to walk a blisteringly long way (12 minutes !!!) So I agreed to buy him new shoes. I have invested in Birkenstocks for him! He is delighted! You can't tell from this photo but he really does love them haha!
We saw a Japanese shop selling all kinds of bird's nests for bird's nest soups
and other delicious (!) meals!
Then they went to the cinema to watch Trolls! They are pretty happy! We are so excited to be travelling together. Whatever happens with Corona, they have me back and I have them back and we are so happy about it! It's been a joy to be together all day today and just focus on each other!
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