I continue to be more and more uncomfortable as we work our
way deeper into Asia. There are just way
too many people here for me. Plus it has
been hot and muggy. I do not want to
complain; but the heat makes everything feel even dirtier than it already is! Malaysia has been interesting because it is a
mix of several different Asian cultures.
The country-side is beautiful, but Kuala Lumpur has not been too
impressive. Then again, it is hard to
appreciate a city like Kuala Lumpur coming from UAE and Singapore. It is a very run-down city. I am not a huge fan of the food either. I like some Chinese food, but it has to be in
moderation. I have been in Asia for 4
days and I am already sick of Chinese, Thai, Japanese, and Malaysian type of
food. Too bad I will be here for the
next two weeks.
Yesterday was mainly a travel day to Kuala Lumpur, with a little free time in the evening. We ate dinner at a Thai restaurant. The food tasted pretty good; I just hated the texture! Today we spent half of the day touring the city, visiting Menara Tower, Masjid Jamer War Memorial, King’s Palace, Batu Caves, and the Petronas Towers. Batu Caves was my favorite destination of the day! The cave is one that was once used for a Hindu Temple. It was awesome to see the caves and climb 250+ steps just to enter, but my favorite part about it all was the wild monkeys. Several monkeys live near and around the caves and basically snack off of all the tourism waste. It was so cool to see the monkeys in the wild.
Our tour for the day ended at Petronas Towers, once the tallest building in the world. We ate lunch at a Japanese restaurant in the towers, and walked out to see a monsoon-like downpour outside. Here was our predicament at that point. Today was our last chance to ship things home before several upcoming flights. It was currently 3p.m. and the post office closed at 5:00p.m. It was about a 20 min walk back to the hotel where we had to get our stuff to get ready to send. We could have waited for the rain to die down but we risked getting to the post office in time if we did that. So Devin, Courtney, Drew, and I decided to book it to our hotel. We rain-proofed ourselves as much as possible, buried our electronics in our bags, and made a mad dash for our hotel. We were doomed from the start because I have never been outside in rain as heavy as this was. In fact we were pretty much the only people crazy enough to be on the streets the entire way back to the hotel! I was completely soaked within seconds. We got back to the hotel just as the rain let up, almost as if it were mocking us! We quickly grabbed our stuff to ship home and headed for the post office. After asking for directions 3 times, we finally found our way with about 40 minutes to spare. It ended up being about $20 to ship, so super cheap!
Long story short, our trek through the monsoon was totally worth getting to send a load of stuff home, and it made for some great memories. At one point we were all running through inches of water in the streets because they were so flooded. We probably looked like box of crayons running around with our bright colored rain gear; green, blue, yellow, and red! Thank goodness I will never see any of these people again.
Anyways after that, we all treated ourselves to a Valentine’s dinner at Outback. We decided it was time for some American food again! I was so happy! I got a steak and dessert! You would be surprised to know how hard it is to find a steak around here. Happy Valentine’s Day to me!!!
Yesterday was mainly a travel day to Kuala Lumpur, with a little free time in the evening. We ate dinner at a Thai restaurant. The food tasted pretty good; I just hated the texture! Today we spent half of the day touring the city, visiting Menara Tower, Masjid Jamer War Memorial, King’s Palace, Batu Caves, and the Petronas Towers. Batu Caves was my favorite destination of the day! The cave is one that was once used for a Hindu Temple. It was awesome to see the caves and climb 250+ steps just to enter, but my favorite part about it all was the wild monkeys. Several monkeys live near and around the caves and basically snack off of all the tourism waste. It was so cool to see the monkeys in the wild.
Our tour for the day ended at Petronas Towers, once the tallest building in the world. We ate lunch at a Japanese restaurant in the towers, and walked out to see a monsoon-like downpour outside. Here was our predicament at that point. Today was our last chance to ship things home before several upcoming flights. It was currently 3p.m. and the post office closed at 5:00p.m. It was about a 20 min walk back to the hotel where we had to get our stuff to get ready to send. We could have waited for the rain to die down but we risked getting to the post office in time if we did that. So Devin, Courtney, Drew, and I decided to book it to our hotel. We rain-proofed ourselves as much as possible, buried our electronics in our bags, and made a mad dash for our hotel. We were doomed from the start because I have never been outside in rain as heavy as this was. In fact we were pretty much the only people crazy enough to be on the streets the entire way back to the hotel! I was completely soaked within seconds. We got back to the hotel just as the rain let up, almost as if it were mocking us! We quickly grabbed our stuff to ship home and headed for the post office. After asking for directions 3 times, we finally found our way with about 40 minutes to spare. It ended up being about $20 to ship, so super cheap!
Long story short, our trek through the monsoon was totally worth getting to send a load of stuff home, and it made for some great memories. At one point we were all running through inches of water in the streets because they were so flooded. We probably looked like box of crayons running around with our bright colored rain gear; green, blue, yellow, and red! Thank goodness I will never see any of these people again.
Anyways after that, we all treated ourselves to a Valentine’s dinner at Outback. We decided it was time for some American food again! I was so happy! I got a steak and dessert! You would be surprised to know how hard it is to find a steak around here. Happy Valentine’s Day to me!!!
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