Almost Paradise....

Ah....the 90s and sunny 4 days in a row.... It was a nice relaxing mini-vacation. We are starting to learn that all the advice we were given on day one when we arrived in Shanghai is all true. The most important: get the hell out of Shanghai every 6-8 weeks for your own sanity! So thank you Dell for having an office in Penang, Malaysia and thank you Dell for having extra travel budget this past quarter so that Will could have the opportunity to meet the nice folks in Penang. He also got to tour the factory. Did you know that most if not all the laptops (desktops??) are made in this office. When you order a Dell computer (and why would you order anything else? :) ) the order is sent by 5pm US time to Malaysia. While you sleep, they put your computer together and by the next morning it is on a plane heading back to the U.S.!! So enough about work...well except I told Will if they ever offered him a job in Malaysia he wouldn't have to twist my arm too hard to go back.

We rented a mo-ped and took a spin around the island. We even stopped at the Penang Butterfly farm where we walked through this greenhouse type place with over 200 species of butterflies flying everywhere. It was amazing - thus the reason why we had so many cool pictures of the butterflies - they were hard to miss. Just for the record, Will did tried to get me to drive the mo-ped, and we do have some video footage of me going about 5 mph, but it might have to be destroyed. Regardless, with his driving skills (thank goodness he had some training in London on how to drive on the left side of the road) and my camera skills, we managed to make it back safely to our hotel without incident.

Shout out to Angela - the picture of me poolside - I'm toasting *you* baby, with a Singapore Sling in hand! :) I"ll try to get some video footage posted soon.