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well… they eat LOTS of rice and LOTS of noodles here! We have it at every meal, even breakfast. (Emmy you’ve gotta come here because of your love for fried rice!) My favorite place is breakfast at the hotel- it’s authentic Malay food + delicious unlimited coffee. Here are our most recent meals of the week.

Walk about Kota Iskandar

This is our first venture out into the local area, and we will continue to keep reaching further…now that we have figured out the bus route…we walked over 5 miles before we figured it out. Enjoy~

Day 1 – We made it!

Day 1 – January 9, 2016. We officially made it to Malaysia! We landed at the Singapore Airport (after leaving Moscow @ 9˚F and snowing) around 5am, went through immigration and out the door to find our driver. He took us across the bridge into Malaysia, about a 1.5 hour drive. Here’s our place in…

Preparation layout

This is most of the gear for our trip to Malaysia. Prepared for anything from backpacking to hotel stay!  

Do Not Fear

Well, we are now 3 days away from leaving the country! Lots of mixed emotions- mostly excited and nervous and disbelief that the halfway-across-the-world trip we’ve been talking about for a year now is finally upon us. Amidst the craziness of Thanksgiving to Christmas to New Year’s and now packing and prepping, God keeps bringing me back…

CrossTravelers

The start of the journey that will last the rest of our lives…