Christmas Day in New Orleans

We spent our Christmas day meeting up with two car loads of Malaysian Houstonians that drove six hours to Louisiana for Christmas. We met up in a friend house in Baton Rouge (about one hour drive from New Orleans) and enjoyed some good home cooked nasi lemak. It is interesting to observe a snippet of Malaysian culture at that moment with nasi lemak, some home made kuih with a roomful of Malaysians in the back water of southern Louisiana.

Looking at the mighty Mississipi river from river front in Baton Rouge.

Sitting in front of state capital building in Baton Rouge

Sarawakian Malaysian friend from Houston


The kids racing each other

Meredith unwrapping her present on Christmas morning before we left for Baton Rouge. Being cheap parents, we saw a mock up kitchen set that we really want to give Meredith but we just couldn't get over the price tag for the kitchen set. So we ended up buying a small set of Playdoh for her. Much to our delight, a surprise gift to Meredith (not from us) actually contains the kitchen set that we wanted to get her.

Isaac tried to play with the new kitchen set. He didn't last very long at the new kitchen set, he got elbowed by his big sister very soon after the photo was taken. Meredith got a red card (scolding) for the offense against her brother.

Isaac's present is a story book which he will be able to read in a few years time. In the mean time, Meredith will have an extra story book.