MC on Miri: Volume #2

Our last few days in Miri were pretty quiet. We checked out the shops, went swimming, ate lots of rice of course and sampled the yummy yummy tropical fruits so abundant here (mmmm papaya...).
On our last night we ate at a Japanese Steamboat restaurant where you cook all your food (by steaming) yourself and were surprised to find four kinds of NZ steak on the menu!
Also I noticed that where we have fake tan, Malaysia has whitening cream. All the moisturisers have whitening agents in them and some are "guaranteed to lighten your skin tone by two shades in one week". Ironic huh? Anyway, here's a few more photos of our final days in Miri.On our last day in Miri Poh-Poh took us out for coconut juice. Unfortunately we didn't really like it that much and they were huge! But rude not to try some.
We went out for dinner on Mother's Day (oh yeah, happy belated mother's day to our mums!) with Poh-Poh and Uncle Jerome. It seems Mother's Day is a big deal in Malaysia because all the restaurants were absolutely packed with Mother's Day celebratees.
Here's Poh-Poh and John at dinner. Our table was outside under a coconut tree which had red chinese lanterns and fairy-lights strung through it. So pretty!
We went up Canada Hill in Miri (which is the biggest hill in Miri and we were warned by the locals to drive carefully because it's really steep, but they mustn't have many mountains in Malaysia because it was fairly tame!) which is the site of the first oil rig in Miri. It also houses a petroleum museum - we were too hot and lazy to read most of the info but they did have some fun hands-on physics experiments which reminded us of science at school.So obviously we are now in London after a smooth (but not much sleep) 17 hour flight from Brunei. We are spending a few days here before flying out to Athens on Sunday to begin the backpacking Europe stage of our trip!