An Update for the month of September

I have been quite lazy in updating my blog (sorry!) but there were so many pictures to go through that I kept putting it off. But enough is enough! I am going to do a quick post on what we have been up to- mainly because I am getting a lot of pictures for October which I am going to have to post about eventually and I need to get this over and done with before I can move on (OCD of some sort!).

Anyways, this month there were a lot of birthdays and different styles of parties. A close friend of ours turned 30 and had an Irish themed bday party which was a lot of fun!

Priya, Simis daughter, turned 8 and had a river cruise bday party with pizzas. The kids loved it and even managed to catch some fireflies. The full moon was also out and the whole river looked magical. It was beautiful.

Some other friends of ours had a beach firework party with hot dogs and burgers. The sun set as usual was spectacular and the fireworks were pretty impressive. They had these sparklers that changed colour as they burned which were really cool.

At school, Yusuf has joined the Football ASA and is loving it. It was a very proud moment for Zaheer to see Yusuf on the field and he may or may not have cried a little. I think he's trying to fulfil his lifelong dream of becoming a footballer through Yusuf........

(Yusuf is in the red cap and white t shirt)

It was also Yusuf's turn to bring home Barnaby the Bear (last year it was Pablo the bear). All he could think to do with Barnaby was play Ben 10. So here he is blowing him up. His teacher was quite amused.

(Poor fluffy being squashed)

And here he is introducing him to Fluffy (which is a boy bear apparently.........)

And finally, for those of you interested in the local insects, Zaheer took this picture of a centipede that was found on the school grounds which was also poisonous! It was huge!!

We also went to one of the islands near Brunei for a day trek with our good friend Jacky and to see a charcoal factory. We also saw LOADS of flying foxes (really big bats) but I took so many pictures that it will be a post in itself. I will try and post that this week sometime.