We have been here in Langkawi now for a few days, and I am not at all embarrassed to say that we have not done much of anything!

We have to return home soon, and so our plan was to have a few days of simple relaxation, and that is what we have been doing. There is a lot of island here that is worth exploring but we have decided to save it for a return trip, and our last few days have been mostly filled with reading books by the pool and the occasional short walk out to the food market or along the shore a few blocks away from our hotel.

We changed our plans for the end of this year’s vacation a bit and instead of going down the Malaysian coast towards Kuala Lumpur, we decided to take our last few days at a hotel with a pool in Langkawi. So this morning it is up at the crack of dawn – well actually it is up when the front desk wakes us up to tell us our taxi is waiting and we have to scramble to get out the door in about 5 mins to ensure that we don’t miss our ferry!!

The ferry from Penang to Langkawi is about 3 hours so rather than try and watch the subtitled movie through the back of some guy’s head I decide to catch a few extra winks on the way over. After our arrival at Langkawi, and our checkin at our hotel, I pop online to connect with the guys back home to finish up the last bit of work related to the server issues we had yesterday. Today goes much better than yesterday, and after about an hour of installation and testing everything is working properly on the new permanent solution – back to relaxation mode for me!!

Mrs. Columbus has scouted out the pool area and the sun is shining so once I pack up the work and we pop out for a quick bite to eat, it is back to the pool for the rest of the day, just relaxing and taking in some sun.

I;m sure we will take in some activities or a tour in the next couple of days here, but the plan is to mostly just take it easy and enjoy our last few days in Asia before heading home.