The church visitors, our family, Jim VanOverloop, and two couples from church spent a day in the historic city of Malacca, Malaysia.
The streets of downtown Malacca
These colorfully decorated rickshaws are everywhere.
Buying the popular dessert cendol from a small shop along the street
Walking along a narrow street in Malacca after touring an old home
The ruins of St. Paul's Church
Malacca was ruled by the Dutch for about 150 years beginning in the mid-1600s, and the Dutch influence is still seen in the city.
We saw this Delft inside a museum.
A windmill in the center of town
All this Malay language--and then "Jonker Walk"!
Another day our family went with the Kooles and Kregels to Gardens by the Bay.
Inside the Flower Dome
(a rare opportunity for Jason to wear a sweatshirt, so he took it!)
Great place for the owner of a landscape company and his former employee
The Flower Dome was decorated for Chinese New Year.
It's the Year of the Monkey.
Mary Kregel and Jessica
That's the walkway from which I took the previous picture.
Rev. & Pat Koole
Their last night here there was a farewell dinner at church for the church visitors and Jim VanOverloop.
Elder Kregel and Rev. Koole had to read poems
to their wives, written by one of the young men here.
One verse of the Kregels' poem
Rev. Koole spinning a wheel to discover what his prize was for reading the poem
Jim had to do Charades and chose Joanne and me to guess.
The visitors also had other times of good fellowship with the people here.
Visiting at Lee Yang & Joanna's wedding dinner
Visiting and playing games in a family's condo
Dinner with the Teo family
(Notice the cake--Pat Koole had at least four birthday celebrations while she was here!)
We are thankful to the Kooles and Kregels for coming to Singapore and also to the PRC for sending them!
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