Sunday, December 20, 2009

Malaysia

Finally! Our pictures from our great trip to Malaysia for Corrine and Michael's wedding last october. It was such a wonderful experience!
We stayed in Kuala Lumpur and surroundings and we had the best time, people were really nice, food was delicious, it was beautiful! The pics are not really in order, sorry.
And soon I will post our Thanksgiving pictures!

Jalan Petaling in Chinatown where you can buy pretty much anything
The Blue Mosque just outside of Kuala Lumpur



Bukit Bintang, the street where our hotel was. A great area, we loved it!





At the wedding

Corrine and Michael's first dance



Christie and Kit

Playing with the decorations





The traditional tea ceremony before the wedding

Jay, Kit, Mai, Kaz, Mahinda, me and Rudi

In front of the King's palace. The king is elected every 5 years.


Malaysia's national monument, designed by Felix de Weldon who did as well the Iwo Jima monument in Washington DC



Christie and me riding our elephant at the Elephant Sanctuary


Feeding the baby elephant


And now feeding the big one

Michael and Corrine







King fruit or Durian. It is really good but it smells rotten.



Foot massage on Bukit Bintang




Fish Spa! Special fishes called Garra Rufa eat your dead skin. Yum!

Kaz and Mai like it.



You can do hands, feet or even whole body!

Inside of the Batu cave, a Hindu shrine to Lord Murugan



Going up the 272 steps to enter the cave





The silver-leaf monkeys of Bukit Melawati in Kuala Selangor


The strait of Melacca

Hanging out on the cannons of the old fort








Feeding green beans to the monkeys

Making friends

In Chinatown

Butterfly, this one is the most common in Malaysia

I don't know what this one is


This one liked me.


In the Museum for Islamic Art



Masjid Nagara, the national mosque



Dataran Merdaka or Independance square


It used to be a cricket field before being the place where Malaysia declared independance from Great Britain


Walking in the city there is a lot of vegetation

Petronas Towers









And that's it!

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Rock Climbing... again
































Oklahoma eatin'

For labor Day weekend, we went to the Kansas lake house with Michael and Corrine. On the way there, we have to go through Oklahoma, it's pretty boring but we did manage to find some good places to eat.

First, the Railhead diner in Purcell on the way to Kansas





And then the best Vietnamese restaurant so far, in Oklahoma City, on the way back to Dallas


Monday, August 31, 2009

Tennis

Most sundays, we play tennis with a few friends in the morning. The usual suspects are Marina, Corrine, Michael, Christie and Kit.
Last sunday, Jay brought his new camera and had some fun.



Corrine took some pictures too

Marina and Jay



Michael and Corrine


Christie










Kit and Christie



Kit







Kit is flying!

Looking so british!

Marina and me


Baseball game: Texas Rangers vs Boston Red Sox

A few weeks back, we went to the ball park to see a pretty important game: Texas Rangers vs Boston red Sox. Of course the rangers won :)
It was a fun evening with friends and hot dogs.

It's never that full!

Mike, Liz and Terry

Christie and Kit



Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Back in Dallas

Hello everyone!

We have been back in Dallas for quite some time now and we have settled in the married life pretty easily :) 
The wedding has been great, everything was wonderful and everyone was so nice and generous! We were so happy that so many of our far away family and friends made it to France to be with us on our wedding day. Thank you everyone!

Since we've been back, my mom (coucou maman!) and my grandpa sent me this article from the local newspaper. Jay and I now officially had our 15 minutes of fame!




More info about the wedding pictures will be coming soon, so stay tuned!