I was going to take everyone on an early adventure after toast and coffee, but I could not. Viena and Ezra were having so much fun just playing in the yard of Apa Kaba with Mariam to take them away to walk the city streets of Melaca and see fortresses – it just did not feel right. So, off I went solo to scout out the area. I found Jonker street – not impressive in the early morning. I was also able to find Little India and Little China, the Sikh Temple, the Melaka River, St. Pauls Church, St Francis School and the bank ATM that was not working next to a guy with a shotgun. I was NOT able to find the fresh juice place that was mentioned but we found that in the afternoon with the help of Kenny’s dad – Uppa”we call him. Uppa walked us through the village shortcuts of Banda Kaba and we found the fresh juice place that had all sorts of fresh juice and fresh juice smoothies and dare I say smokers which seemed to conflict their otherwise healthy image. They were in the “Buddhist”portion of the village and Ezra saw a rather large incense stick – an incense stick of unusually immense size burning outside the Buddhist temple and he said, “Look at that big smoker!” Looked like a cattail plant. We went swimming in the Melaka swimming pool. What a treat. The pool is wonderful on a hot day and wonderfully deep – over 4 meters and was a full 50 meter pool. Most of the swimmers (about 20) stayed in the shallow end or clung near the walls. Ezra was diving in the deep end. He even jumped right on my head which I was not too happy about. Very nice pool and very bright. I was unable to swim in my “baggy” swimsuit and had to rent (2 ringgits) a “tight” swimming suit. Photo not included. The other photographs I missed taking today were Ezra, Viena, and Mariam in the streets of China town at a shop that had hundreds of living baby fowl. Little white ducklings, little black ducklings, little yellow chicks – all in shipping containers. The old Chinese guys was taking them out of one shipping container and placing them in another container. Ezra was amazed and we could not persuade him to leave for nothing. The other missed photo of the day was Ezra, Viena andMariam playing in a water sprinkler in the evening light. Kenny was a good host and sprayed them down pretty well as he also watered the grounds. A great way to end a hot day. I slept well with dream of goodness.
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