It's holiday time.....

As I'm sure that the whole world is aware, October 1st is the Chinese National Holiday and this year marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of the current version of China. And the few of you the have been reading this blog for a while know that whenever a billion people get a holiday in China we opt to leave the country.

But this year is the 60th anniversary, and thus different plans had to be made. October 1st falls on a Thursday so almost everyone is off from Thursday to Thursday, working last Saturday and on October 10th to make up for some of their holiday time. We planned to head to Laos for the holiday, enjoying a few days in Hong Kong at the end of the trip so that we could go on an electronic spending spree, and so we booked a flight out on Friday the second - the best of both worlds, a chance to see the celebrations and then get out.

Then our brother called, the one we had promised him that we would come and visit him in Malaysia again when he was putting on a show in December, and he had some news. Due to timing constraints his concert was going to be in Ipoh the last weekend in September and for one night in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday night, September 29th...

Change of plans then, and so we adjusted our plans and left first thing in the morning for Malaysia (by the time this posts we should be enroute to the hotel so we can freshen up before heading out). We will go and see Alex play at No Black Tie in Kuala Lumpur, click here to see a much younger photo of Alex in the write up about him and the people he will be playing with.

From there we will once again travel the road to Ipoh and spend sime time with sisters Hong and Yih and the rest of the family before returning back to our originally scheduled trip, flying up to Hong Kong first thing Friday morning and then onto Laos.

Due to computer issues beyond my control, and which has made my life incredibly tough these last few days, we will be without a computer this trip and most likely will not be stopping into internet cafes to type in a quick post. However, this time we have pre-written a few posts that will post during the time we are gone, we hope that will hold you over until we return on the 12th...