In Chinese this is called Mee. It's noodles. Looks like worms, but it's noodles and it wasn't too bad. This was a little kadai in the middle of a kampung in middle of no where. Actually our good friend Bob lives here. We went to his home for FHE.

A little forest nut.  I don't know  any more about it; tastes ok but I don't know the worth of it. It is from the forest. It's white meat in the inside. I don't think they use it for cooking, but then what do I know. I ate Monitor Lizard.  It about 6 feet long. An investigator killed it and had us over for dinner. They sold part of it at the market and got top dollar for it. I think any protein here is desirable since it seems they only eat chicken.

About 5 minutes from where we live is this long house. A sweet family is being taught the gospel that lives here.  We also went here for FHE one night. Several families live here. It is like little apartments connected together.

She is swinging her baby to sleep. Also at the same long house. She is sitting outside on the porch-too hot in the house. Almost nothing in the house.

I told you some of the pictures repeat subjects because they come from two different cameras. We are in the home of the second richest man in Kuching. The man with the orange skirt around him. We were invited to Hari Rayia-Muslim Holiday after their fasting.

I am sitting beside his wife. We had a wonderful discussion. I showed her the pictures of our family from the book Mandi made me, which is the most used thing I brought with me.

She was very sweet. Has 6 children, many grandchildren, and even great grandchildren. Their home is very lovely,.

Home Sweet Home. That's the door to our apartment. I am standing in the kitchen. Picture is being taken from a sliding glass door to balcony and to the left is sitting area and then left is hallway to bedrooms and bathrooms. It's a very lovely apartment. We love it. It has views from all the windows.

Riding around, we found this humble home. We can be very thankful for what we have.

Nothing goes to waste.  If left sitting long enough, every thing useful will disappear.

A kampung in a part of Kuching. Very typical homes in kampungs.

We went with some investigators to their  kampung to harvest rampadon. They supplied us all with hats and lunch and good time. We hiked to a waterfalls. I saw a new bird.

Citit is the mother and Augutine is the son. He is the one that cooked monitor lizard for us.  He is a fantastic chef.  We are trying to get him a job.

 They even fed us durian. The sugar fruit that will give you sugar poisoning if you eat too much of it.

Sisters Wynn and Collard helping to harvest the rambutan  I saw a new bird while we were here. What a great day and beautiful area in the mountains.

The Harvesting Gang.

The Chain Gang Officials. Someone has to keep them working.  We harvested from the forest, where no one owned the fruit. We picked it and they sold in the market in Kuching.

Elder Przybyla didn't get the whole name in the picture, but you know what it is. Sephora is coming to Kuching in the Spring Mall.  I am not sure when it opens, but I will probably be there.

We were invited to the Rotary Club. Elder Przybyla was invited to speak for 15 min. They called everyone up that has a birthday in August.  The Rotary Club is a Service organization. We are thinking about joining just to get the Church's name out there. 

Every August Kuching hosts the Food Fair or People's fair.  Booth after booth of food, so you can try all the local food. The youth give shows and dancing on the stage along with singers, etc. Then there are some booths with items to buy.

The Cats of Kuching plus the wild animal from American!

We did some Family History Booth's in the Mall. The next day one of the Elder's pictures and the booth was in the News Paper.  Way to go Elder Mix.

The Ramblee family is the best. We visit them a lot. They work and live inside a lumber job. The lumber company gives them humble housing for small amount of money. Community bathrooms, etc. They are members of 2 years.

Elder Przybyla asked this little girl every time we visit their house if she will share some of her hair with him, since he doesn't have any.  She usually runs and hides.  Her older bother is on a mission in the Singapore Mission.

The Elders gave a lesson  on Captain Moroni, so this leader ripped his shirt off and wrote on it and then waved it in the air. They loved it. Thy also live in a lumber yard.

Mom in the center, and Sister Wynn in the blue.
Sister Wynn and Sister Collard are companions in the Stampin Branch. Also Elder Scott and Elder Stowell.  Elder Scott has gone home this week. He will be greatly missed.

This is back tracking a little bit.  We went to a Long House, which is the old way they uses to live. Some still do today, but not so many.  This long house is about 300 years old. It's famous because of the bamboo flooring, which is clear in this picture.

They have harvested and are drying black pepper here.  Black and white pepper from Sarawak is very famous.  It's the same but dried in a different way.  I personally am not a fan of white pepper.  I don't like the taste and smell.

White pepper is expensive and very desirable here.

If everyone were to return to this long house at one time there would be about 3000 people.
They have rooms here guests can stay in. I guess if you want to go exploring in the jungle or something you would do that.  Not me.

These are real sculls.  Probably Japanese from the war. Most long houses still have these on display. Tradition was to become a man you had to kill a man and take the skull and then you got a tattoo from your chin down your neck. We have seen some men with these tattoos. They of course were older men because they haven't done this since the end of WWII, We are not even 100 years since this took place. 

Leave it to an Elder!!

Some artist has lived here. I will show you several pictures painted on the houses.

These two girls carry these bags full of rocks all day long to build a house.  They carry them quite a ways.  The Elders decided to help them. They only did one load for them. You put the basket on your head and off you go.  Elders could barely get off the ground.

They were hurting the rest of the day. I don't know how these young ladies do this all day?

Another cute painting. My favorite.

And another.

This young man is plucking the feathers off a chicken. I assume for dinner.

I guess this is one of the kitchens in the long house. I don't remember this.  Looks pretty nice for a long house.

More of the bamboo decking. The house goes for a long ways.  They live side by side in their own sections.

This is in Singapore.  The National Museum was very beautiful with nice paintings and displays.
We did a lot of walking this day and my feet were really hurting. Singapore is a big city.  Their subway is fantastic; we love it. We use it to and from the airport and all day long. We just keep putting money on our subway card.

Took a PDay and went to an Alligator Park. This is an Iguana; pretty big boy.

Funny looking, but it's true. This type of alligator has no tail.

A couple of different flowers on the lily pads

We actually went bird watching, but decided to do it at the Alligator park. Two things at the same time.  This is a Crimson Sunbird.  New to my list, with a couple others in the same day.
Google it.  It's really beautiful. Saw an all green bird also.

Feeding the big boys by hanging meat on a line and they have to jump for the food.  Some make it and some don't.  Some just give up.