Hello KL...and our days here...

 

Scott and I headed to the flight in the wee hours of the morning...and so here we are in KL!  We took the bus to train transit and ended ourselves up at the Twin Towers.  We are here mainly for a visa run, but I am sure we will be enjoying the sites during the rest of the time.  Its another try at seeing some of our friends in town...if they are around...and spending great times in a new place...pictures to come soon....when I have my camera cable. We are well and healthy and doing well....

So upon arrival in KL, we took the amazing public transportation into the Central station and got ourselves (if even on accident) to the Petronas (twin) towers. We took some pictures there and headed off to our hotel in China town. We stayed at D’Oriental which before night fall was just a street with some vendors on the side—however at night, a night market springs out of seemingly thin air.

We wandered around and tried to get ourselves oriented. We had some lovely food on the streets and turned in early the first night because we had our visa run to do the next day. It was a well needed early night as we awoke at 3am to get our early flight into KL.

The next day we wandered to the Thai Embassy. It was good we were early and we weren’t there for so long. It was also nice that the fee was waved. We went back to the towers and already the free tickets were out for the day, so we wandered around for a bit before deciding on a movie. It was a nice day to just chill out and wander around. We saw a park and definitely had fun taking pictures and playing on the playground.

It was a little of a busy day as I was trying to reach Ana, a former student of my parents when they taught in Japan, and I was to see if I had a job interview that day. We spent some time in the internet café and on the payphones and finally we got it all squared away. We would have a lazy morning, head off to pick up our visas and then I would head to an interview. I would contact Ana afterward to make sure that we can meet up. It was a little bit of a blur running from place to place—but at least it was very easy to get anywhere in the city.

We went for snacks and found we would meet Ana in the evening so we headed out to a reggae bar (yes I do think we find them everywhere that we are) for a couple drinks and hookah. It was a beautiful little place with good atmosphere. We headed out to our lobby to meet up and then we had some magnificent seafood in the street market. We just let the locals order—as that is normally best. It was a wonderful meal and I know we will be meeting up again.

The next morning we took the train to Batu Caves...it was a bit as I remembered it--giant golden statue and a lot of stairs...but Laura this is for you...no matter where I was...all the monkeys came near me.  I had no camera and didn't wish to get any pictures of them, but they were next to me anyhow.  My theory is they are like cats--if you want to play with them they wander away...if you ignore them then they want all your attention.  The other thing to note is I was not carrying a beverage in hand so there was nothing to steal from me.  (I learned that in China when a monkey stole my sprite...in a bottle...and then proceeded to open it and drink it in front of me.)  I am sure Scott will post all the monkey pictures as he was the one taking pictures of them...and I was the one trying to walk away from them....

And then, before we knew it, we would be heading back to Bangkok....