Malaysia Trip - Part 7

After the fun of Langkawi, there were a few days with family and friends before it was time to return back to Finland.

A celebratory dinner with all our favourites.


H-M and her mother.

H-M, Henrry, Po-Po and Leong on his favourite sofa.

H-M and Khuan-Ning.


Kwan - on the phone as usual.

Jia-Jun had a Christmas party at the Lions centre in Penang (Resource and Education for Autistic Children - REACh). Any wealthy Elks Street followers, please don't be shy about contributing to this school for children who see the world differently from most of us.

Jia-Jun playing the role of Santa and distributing gifts to the children at the centre.
(Jia-Yin, in her role of Santa's helper, can just be seen on the right.)

At Penang Airport we were met by Chen-Liang, who came to see us off.

Thomas at the airport, finally getting round to writing his postcards.

Elks Street with Chen Liang having a snack before departure for the north.

Since Elks Street had arrived in Penang at different times using different airlines, we also had to fly back on different flights. H-M changed her flights to the same day as the rest of us, but she couldn't change airline. This led to the strange situation that after passport control we separated into two groups; H-M on one side of the glass, Peter and the boys on the other.

For those interested, our routes were:

• H-M; Penang - Kuala Lumpur - Amsterdam - Helsinki (Air Malaysia/KLM)
• Peter and the boys; Penang - Singapore - Copenhagen - Helsinki (Silkair/Singapore Airlines/Finnair)

And despite setting off later than H-M the boys got to Finland first.

The departure board. (H-M left at 20.35; the boys at 21.15)

Our holiday was at an end.

Over the clouds to Finland.