We have tents set up inside. Maybe we are just over-reacting. Maybe the mosquitoes are not entering the house through the A/C system. Maybe the bed mattress, sheets, and pillows are not full of mites, fleas, or bed bugs. This will be our little experiment. I must have over 100 small red bite bumps all over – mostly on my back shoulders and lower legs. They could all be No-See-Ums. Tyler warned me about the bugs near the beaches of Bali. But for us, in Bali the bugs were never an issue like this. Oh well. We have a quiet safe place with a small bug problem. So we bring out the tents and see what happens. Immediately, Ezra and Viena start play camping in the tent and telling “scarey” stories. They must miss their days or living in the tent. Today, we went to the swimming pool in the morning. Other swimmers were in the pool. Since today is Sunday, Malaysians who work and live in the city venture out here on the weekend to experience their “resort” apartment and enjoy the beach. I guess everyone was showing their resident card to the lifeguard, so I need to some how acquire one of those before we go to the pool again. Viena and Ezra enjoyed racing across the swimming pool. Viena and Dwana went home early and Ezra and I stayed and played with some big water balloons and then Ezra said, “Dad, I’m ready to go.” The sun was starting to heat up and I could have stayed a while longer. The pool is not like a pool in Maui, or Thailand, or any other “resort” pool we have visited. No chairs for laying out in the sun or shade. You come to the swimming pool to swim. Laying out in the sun in the conservative Muslim Malaysian envoronment with at least 100 apartment windows looking down on you is not my ideal place to catch some rays. When they built this complex, they cleared all the trees but left a single strand of trees at the sandy shore line that block the view of the beach and beach-goers from the apartments. So, if you want to see the beach or people on the beach you must be on the beach. And today, being Sunday, there were actually 30 people down on the beach. We biked along the beach during the sunset. The bugs were not bad. The water buffalo were on the beach as well for the sunset just wandering among the people. One of our best sunsets yet here on Borneo and the South China Sea. Pink, Blue Clouds and Venus even came to join the party just as the Sun left. Now lets try out those tents.
Wonder where in the world we were a year ago?
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