A much needed Respite

We ran screaming from Chengdu for our Christmas holiday in Malaysia on the 17th.  We(as in me) needed it.  Bad.  Children however have a funny way of adding excitement to holidays.  In this case, dear boy S started puking as we were making our descent into Kuala Lumpur.  I'll spare you the gory details but lets just say I went through seven more 'dog poop bags'(that I keep in my purse for this very instance) by the time we arrived in our hotel in Kota Kinabalu at noon.  Reason for sickness?  No idea.  Once he saw the pool and ocean he was right as rain.  For a moment.

The view from our balcony

The previously sicker-than-a-dog child seemingly cured and ready for some fun in the sun(hindsight tells me this was a bad idea...)

Right out our door

The craziest little beach crabs dig these holes and pile up all the sand in little balls.  It looked like fireworks.

We splurged before leaving China and bought a waterproof camera knowing that we would be going snorkeling and wanted to have pictures to remember it by.  We were giving it a test run in the pool.  Not bad!

That was our first day.  Or part of it anyway.  S gobbled down a PB and J sandwich after this which came back to bite him.  He was tucked into bed at 3:30pm and we didn't see him again until 7:00 the next morning. The rest of us fell into bed before dinner.  Late night flights just don't agree with any of us. 

Stay tuned for pictures from the rest of our vacation!