Boxing in Bali

It is Boxing Day and I am sitting in my home-away-from-home (Starbucks) at the KL Main International Airport, updating my blog via the free internet that the airport provides. We are flying Malaysia Airlines for the first time. The main airport is almost deserted. I would hazard a guess that most of the traffic is now over at the budget airport that services Air Asia. Price rules in Asia when it comes to air travel!

I have no idea where we are flying into or where we are staying as Shelley made all the travel arrangements. She booked our villa through one of her students and it is supposed to be quite nice. It has 2 bedrooms which is a necessity as my children apparently do not enjoy my snoring, or Shelley's for that matter :-). We also get a private pool but I imagine it can't be very large. Probably just big enough to jump in and get wet to cool down from sunbathing.

I have 2 nerd IT books to read (Programming in Haxe/Neko, and Writing Flash Applications for Mobile Devices) as well as a Science Fantasy book in a series that I am currently reading.

We are planning on renting scooters to explore the area that we are staying in. After we leave Bali, we fly to Bangkok to tour around and visit Jill and John McGrath. I am not sure when we do that but it is after New Years day. Jaime is in Bangkok with us for a day and then flies to Vancouver via KL and Hongkong. She stary there for about 5 days and will meet up with Jordan on day 3. Jordan flies back to Vancouver about Jan. 5th via Singapore and Beijing. Jordan passes all his first semester 3rd year courses and could conceivably graduate at the end of this summer with a B.A. in Human Kinetics. However, it appears he wants to finish off his HBA in Human Kinetics before attending a faculty of education somewhere in B.C. or Ontario. It is my guess it will be Ontario as he needs 2 teachables to get into Int/Senior and he has Human Kinetics with Religion as his second teachable. Trinity Western is a Christian University and he will have 4 Religion courses by the time he graduates. The faculties of Education in Ontario count Religion as a teachable.

Jaime will be waiting patiently to see if she gets into one of the faculties of education she applied to. In the meantime she will be hunting for a job in either Kingston or Ottawa. Her lease in Kingston is up at the end of March.

I will put some pics of our Bali vacation as soon as I locate a Starbucks.

TTYL,

Jim