Boot Key Harbor City Marina and Malaysia and New Zealand

I have to show you more pictures from our trip -- I don't believe I've put on the blog yet. 
This is the Buddhist temple lit up only during the Chinese New Year in Penang, Malaysia.  We visited this our last night and the last night it would be lit.  It's  hard for you to see how enormous this is, and it shows only one small part.

 a Thai temple:

 Amazing food.  This is soup in a pasta topped bowl we drank with a straw.  The green drink was delicious too.  All new vegetables and fruits we'd never tried.

In New Zealand, a Weihiki Island festival we attended with races on the beach.   Other races were wheelbarrow, children running races, ponies, tractors and Sealegs,  a special land and sea boat. 

Can't believe we've been in Boot Key Marina for 6 days.  When you arrive here you shut the door on time.  Everything is on your own time, in your own way.  I've slid into another world with no news or care about what's going on.  It's a disconnect from reality in a lot of ways.  We've gone swimming at the beach, swum off the boat, attended happy hours at Lazy Days, Sparkey's, and Sunrise Harbor, and music right here at the tiki hut on Saturday night.

Changing the oil and racor filter

Mazu after a romp at the beach had such a great time.

 selfie at Sombrero Beach

 Each light represents a boat with people staying aboard for the night.  Usually a harbor, like Marblehead with 1,000 boats may have one or two lights because few people stay on their boats overnight.  Here there are a ton of lights because everyone is living on their boats at the moorings in the harbor.

This morning 5 strangers got together and shared good reads.  Women who enjoy reading and talking about books got together at the marina library.  I put out a time and place on the cruisers radio net, and the 5 of us showed up.  All of us walked away with a list of books.  Really nice group, and we'll meet again in 2 weeks. 
  Had lunch with Sheri Fulton and Dan from Portsmouth, NH who are staying in Key West for a week.  They drove down and we ate at Sunset Grill, a restaurant where you can eat, drink, dinghy to, lie on the sand, and swim in a pool.  It was a nice place right at the end of 7 mile bridge.  Great to see Sheri and Dan.  We're going to take the $1.50 bus ride to Key West (an hour away) to visit them as well this week -- Drew's never been to Key West.