September 17, 2010
Alice's blog:
I just got a new camera that I can take good pictures with. I just don't like that some of my pictures were blurry because my camera goes in and out with blurriness so if I take a picture when the blurriness starts my picture is blurry.
We had a pool party last night with our new friends. It was very fun because they had a girl who was 7 years old named Aletia. She couldn't swim very well. She held onto the wall and climbed over to the jacuzzi. The jacuzzi isn't hot but there are sprayers that can spray your back. If you put your thumb inside the hole where the water comes out, it will spray out the top of the wall and hit someone. I swam to the other side underwater with Aletia. After dinner I swam, ate, did laps of the crawl. We went up to our room and Griffin got a laser light (CO note: Illegal in the US, they are long, sharp lights that can shine across the entire park to a building on the other side).
I ate a lot of pasta. Then we ate cookies and ice cream. I got two bowls of ice cream and two cookies. I made the cookies with Daddy and Boom Boom. When my friends left, I gave Aletia a balloon. Me and Boom Boom played some keep up the balloon.
Bye Bye!
Colleen note:
Our new friends, Chee Leong, Pee Shei, and their kids Aletia and Atticus (Western names; they have Chinese names too) gave us some lanterns to celebrate the Chinese Moon Cake Festival. They told us that Chinese Malaysian (and other children of Chinese origin all over the world) children prance around at night carrying the lanterns, lit from within by candles. The festival history is that centuries ago the Monogolians invaded China and put a Mongolian soldier in each Chinese family's home. The chinese families baked mooncakes and gave them to each other, with a note hidden inside saying "Kill the monogolian soldier in your home at the next full moon." Then, they slit the soldiers' throats at the next moon. Now, they celebrate that gruesome moment of freedom with moon cakes and lanterns.
I love mooncakes and try to eat one every day. Now, I won't eat another mooncake without thinking of slit throats.
