Sunday.... posted late

After seeing the kitties in prison, we headed for the very exciting city of Bandar. I takes about 1-1/2 hours from where the kitties are located. We went to two different shopping malls. Not much different than the stuff that is available locally in the small town of Kuala Belait. LOL! It so funny living in such a small country! I don't really complain, as most things are available there, you just have to know where they are. We were actually hunting for the Starbucks, which does not exist yet.... Driving is getting to be less of a challenge. I am actually getting used to the blinker being on the right side. Whenever I am completely not paying attention or in a hurry, I turn on the windshield wipers instead of the blinker. I always feel so dumb for doing that! This week I have to figure out how we can get an immunization for Japanese Encephalitis. There have been 15 cases of this in the last few weeks in the area where we are living. Yikes! Evidently, kids 15 and under get priority. WTH? I see Hornbills on a daily basis. Finally, I was able to take some photos of them. They live in the Panaga area, which is very cool! They are very big birds! It is unusual for them to live in such a populated area. I will post some photos. On Friday morning, I was Hornbills, a Kingfisher and some crows that have black heads, but brown wings. I have seen some other birds, but have not been able to identify them yet. There are many monkeys about, but I have not taken the time to get photos of them. I have seen a few of them flattened on the road going to the kitties prison. They like to hang out on the side of the road, and watch traffic. I made my first plant purchase today. There was some ladies selling some plants close to the food open market today. I bought a couple of hibiscus, nothing exciting. There were some other plants that I was interested in, but the seller was not around at the time. I went to a couple house of people selling plants today, but the prices seemed a bit high to me, so I pass on them. There is a nursery not too far from the medical center that I am going to tomorrow, so I will stop in and get a better idea for plants, and hopefully pots too! Here are some photos that we took this weekend. The chandelier is in The Mall in Gadong. It's interesting that they could not come up with a better name for the main mall in Gadong.