Halloween & Swimming with Grandparents

We start this blog with a spectacular view of Kuala Lumpur from Doug's parents' apartment. From their bedroom, you have a great view of the Petronas Towers, the KL tower, and much of downtown. What is interesting is you only get this view from a corner of their bedroom. Most of their view is a nice view up toward the highlands, seeing much of the Klang Valley. Since their apartment was built long before the Petronas Towers were completed, you get an understanding of why the view looks the other way.

This weekend, as we often do, we spent some time swimming with grandparents. Grandma Woodward has life jackets and swim suits that stay at their place, so we can easily show up and go swimming. Reeve and Gabi are getting a lot better at swimming, but have plenty of confidence without the competence of being able to swim and safely get to the side. They certainly enjoy the water -- and there is a perfect kiddie pool at the side of the normal pool.

On Sunday afternoon, we attended the American Club's Halloween Party. Reeve and Gabi were quite excited about their costumes, and Rania even snagged a (short) early nap after church in order to visit the Halloween party.

There was some pizza, candy, and a few games, but hopefully it gave a taste of Halloween to our kids, as we are going to forego the trick-or-treating due to bedtimes on a school night and traffic to get to a trick-or-treating place.

On Friday night, Tracy went to a rug auction -- with quite the story that will have to wait until the next posting.