Monday, November 16th, 2009
Winter sunburn @ Tutong Beach
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Sitting PrettyWhere else in the world would you get a brutal sunburn in the winter heat of November? Brunei, of course! We went to Tutong Beach today and spent a wonderful day with the Serikandi family. The fun actually started yesterday when we went to Bandar Seri Begawan (the capital city, BSB for short). Noura and I went to eat lunch with Marcelo & Cynthia. Then we shopped around a bit and made a stop at Ridwan Sbaynati’s popular Arabic restaurant, Sugar & Spice, on the water. It was of course delicious to the last pita bread morsel. We had some mazzeh appetizers and made our way over to meet Azmi & Rose Serikandi at a Thai restaurant in town.

After a quick bite, we experienced the Empire Country Club’s premiere cinema… and let me tell you it was a gorgeous venue to watch the movie 2012. The movie was horrible, but the cinema had the coolest electronic seat chooser ever!

We crashed at a horrible hotel, whose name I will spare. After a water pipe leak and no warm water in the showers (and non-noteworthy breakfast at the hotel), we hiked out and saved our morning by having a lovely traditional Malay breakfast with Roti.

Yoga at Tutong BeachWe then made our way to Tutong Beach where we met about 50 zillion Serikandis which was, as always, a pleasant surprise. We ate some marvelous food and soaked in the generosity while having fun and talking about everything from “How to Make a Great Cappuccino” to moving to Bangkok and starting a new life…

So for the play-by-play, let’s go over what we did today at the beach:

  • Ate a lot of food…grilled vegetables
  • Skidded around in ATVs
  • Played beach soccer…fun!
  • Ate a lot of food…fried Jackfruit, yummy
  • Prayed together
  • Uppercut tall waves
  • Ate a lot of food…sweet ayam
  • Had fun & cracked jokes
  • Ate a lot of food…top class lamb
  • Snapped great photos…learned how to shoot manual

Speaking of which, Fadilah Ahmad Alhijazi (Señor Pablo) took some amazing pictures of us. It’s this man starting off the Youtube video here. Pablo is a philosopher, an artist, great baker, an adventurer, and a foreign diplomat. My wife and I agree he was the inspiration of the day. Take a hop over to Señor Pablo’s blog. Can’t wait to meet again.

It was loads of fun. I have to go to bed now because I’m dead tired.

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