Jasmin's adventure, by Jasmin

Guess what?

I had to go to the ER.   (I'm fine now)

So the story is I was upgrading the hamsters cage and I was cutting a hole in the bottom of the plastic box with a craft knife and the knife slipped and I cut my ring finger (It didn't hurt that much) so I had some experience with cuts and new to put pressure on the cut to stop the bleeding. I ran/ walked to the bathroom and washed the cut and it didn't stop bleeding. So eventually I showed the cut to mom. She took one look and said "WE ARE GOING TO THE HOSPITAL" and that shocked me because it really didn't hurt... so then we went to the hospital but the funny thing is the Grab driver got lost!  By then my finger hurt from pressing hard for a long time. Anyway, we got there and the hospital was pretty much empty because it was night time. Anyway, we found the ER. So we checked in waited for a while then a nurse called us over to a semi-closed off area, she checked my cut and wrapped up my finger then led us to corridor into a more closed of area. I sat on the bed and the nurse went off to do something. While she was gone I noticed a shelf in front of me filled with medical stuff. And the funny thing is there was a sign that read "SKIN STAPLER" -- that is the number one way to terrify your patients especially when they are expecting to get stitches! Which by chance I was. Then a different nurse came in and checked my finger (taking off the bandage) asked me how I got it, then wrapped up my finger again! He left than a different nurse looked again at my finger and left then the 2nd nurse came back and said he needs to get a doc to see if they need to get a specialist to do the stitches. He left and came back with a doctor. The doctor looked at my cut and cleaned it to get a better look. He decided to glue my finger together. I was very relieved because I did not want my finger get sewn together. He glued it, wrapped it up in a waterproof bandage and said don't straighten the finger out, and sent us home. When we got home it was 11:00pm so we went straight to bed.

A friend, some dogs, and a huge garden

Yesterday we were blessed with a special afternoon.  A friend that the girls made taking Ultimate Frisbee at Dalat led to our families connecting in a special way as they have a boy Aiden's age and a girl that fits right in with ours. So they invited us to spend the day with them learning of a few places in Penang not usually discovered.  

So we had lunch at a dog cafe... guess who was thrilled with that idea?! Apparently, though, we managed to get pictures at the very moment faces don't show how pleased they were! The food was really good too. If it were closer to us, we might visit more often - even Dad pretty well with asthma being in a room full of dogs.

After that, we went to the Botanical Garden. We did a simple stroll around the main path... well, the adults did. The kids must have doubled the distance with all their side tracking and doubling back!

The first thing discovered was the cannon ball trees. Aiden went bug-eyed, "Cannon balls grow on trees!!?!!"
No, but they were fun to discover: hard shelled, just-the-right-sized for smashing... But they're smelly :(

 We found a lot of places we'd like to explore more fully another day, and enjoyed discovering a number of rain forest beauties big and small and tiny.

We definitely have to go back some time when we don't have to to leave for Chinese classes as there are a number of trails to explore, beautiful places to enjoys, and myriads of monkeys (so we're told - we didn't really get to see many in the middle of the afternoon).