The Beaches of Langkawi

Sunday morning we woke up early to listen to the LSU game again. We forgot our time had jumped an hour ahead so we were actually 13 hours ahead of Central time and up at 6:45 just waiting anxiously for the game to start. Those mornings have been some of our favorite times. Sitting on the balcony of whatever country we were in, listening to the game and drinking coffee, overlooking the most amazing views. What started off as a really great listening adventure, turned in to half of day of stress. By the time we were through listening to LSU finally pull off the win against Auburn we were ready to go to the pool for our post game tailgate. We proudly represented with game day attire that day in Malaysia, half a world a way from our Tigers.

We had great dinners on the beach, experienced the most amazing sunsets, made friends with one of the local bartenders, took Malay cooking lessons, rode jet skis to explore the local islands and even had a couples' massage. I know, I know, we thought the same thing… maybe a little cheesy. But it ended up being just like a normal massage with two tables side by side in the same room. The only difference was that they sang a sweet unity blessing over us at the conclusion. It brought me back to saying our vows. Wow, has that been over two weeks already! We spent the entire time in Langkowi just relaxing by the pool in our own private cabana and enjoying such a peaceful time together.

To Jason's delight, we even saw a few monkeys playing in the trees at the spa. The resort "strongly" encouraged the guest not to feed the monkeys. However, Jason somehow managed to accidentally leave fruit outside on our porch daily and walked around with a "just in case banana" in his pocket. Lol! Unfortunately, on our "monkey hunt" the last afternoon we hiked all over the property and didn't find a single monkey. As usual, on the morning that we left no less than five employees lined the driveway and to wave goodbye to us. And amazingly just as we were about to pull off of the property the monkeys showed up! Big ones, small ones, moms carrying babies; at least 20 monkeys swung from the trees and ran along the wall that lined the driveway. Even the monkeys came to say goodbye! What an amazing send off!