Happy Anniversary to US!

Our 9 year anniversary is in 2 days. Hard to believe. We sure have done a lot. If you had told me that by the time I was 31 I would have 3 kids, lived in 13 different houses, 6 states and 2 different countries I would NEVER have believed you. It sure has been one seriously FUN adventure and I can't imagine doing it with anyone else. Our anniversary present to ourselves this year was a trip to Borneo. When my Mom and Aunt were here they VERY graciously volunteered to watch the kid's, so that we could "go somewhere". Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! We are truly Blessed! Y'all are hand's down the BEST!
We first wanted to go to Bali, but P is not allowed to go there. Then we thought about Vietnam, but it's monsoon season there (it's monsoon season here, also and believe me we've had ENOUGH of that!) So, we thought Borneo. Sounds exotic and interesting and we'll never have this opportunity again. Let's do it! So, to be more specific we went to Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia on the island of Borneo.

It was a fantastic once in a lifetime opportunity. And not what we expected. We thought it would be fairly similar to Thailand. Boy were we wrong. It's got a very rain forest feel as opposed to the tropical feel of Thailand. So, here it is in pictures. The pics don't do it justice. Ecspecially because when we went out on our excursions we were too nervous to take our 'good' camera and just took our little water proof digital olympus. So, please ignore the quality.

We arrived at our hotel...so far, so good!

Mt. Kinabalu. They said we were lucky to see it so well.

Waiting out an evening rain shower at the beachside bar-we got WET!

Fresh fruit smoothies at the Phillipino Market.

mmm...nanas!

Stalls at the Phillipino Market...not much room in there.

LOVE infinity pools!

I took this from our bus (on our excursion to go to see the Proboscis monkey), so it's extra terrible quality, but those little tails you see hanging from the telephone wires are "common" monkey's. It was really neat. We have pigeons...they have moneky's.

A lot of the houses on this stretch of road were flooded. I asked our guide how often this happened and he said 4-5x a year. Can you imagine?

On our way out to get on the boat for a little monkey and bird watching/finding.

We saw A LOT of common monkey's!

And even a few Proboscis monkey's (they have big noses). They are pretty shy though, so this was the best pic we were going to get.

Reminded us of Lousiana. Just different vegetation.

Pretty sunset.

We went on an island hop/snorkeling tour and this was a mosque in a floating city. Malaysia is primarily a Muslim country although there government allows other religions. My point is that is a Mosque in the middle of the floating city.

Another shot of the floating city. Can you imagine living in one of those in a thunderstorm?

On one of the islands.

"The Bomb" This was on an island that we decided to skip the snorkeling at because there were SO many people and because we were told we could "Go on a hike and find the bomb." Well, we got all excited and got ourselves ready for what we assumed would be a nice little hike to what we thought would be a crater with some of the pieces of "the bomb" still in it. Were we wrong. It was about a 150 foot walk down a path and this is what we found. Apparently a diver found it a few years ago. We were too busy laughing to be truly disappointed and spent the rest of our time on that island just laying under a palm tree.

Muslim women going snorkeling. When in Rome, I did NOT do as the Romans do.

Coolest fish we saw while snorkeling...a puffer fish...unfortunately he never puffed.

I know it's not a great shot, but I just like the background.
Our last night in Borneo. What a great trip! So, there's just one burning question left...if this was 9 where are going for 10...that's double digits!!