Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Scott and I did quite well getting out the door this morning. We enjoyed our lavish free Hilton Gold member breakfast and proceeded to the double decker hop-on, hop-off bus. Our first stop on the bus was the National Palace, Jalan Duta. The palace isn’t open to visitors but you can look through its entry gates. There are also guards similar to those at Buckingham Palace and other places. The Asians seemed to love taking pictures with not only the guards but especially the horses.
Our next stop on the bus was the butterfly park. Admission to the park was $7 and it’s questionable as to whether or not it was worth it. We saw a few cool specimens but I’ve definitely been to better butterfly exhibits.
After the butterfly park we walked to the bird park. The KL Bird Park (that’s its official name) claims to be the “world’s largest free-flight walk-in aviary.” Scott astutely pointed out that he was skeptical about the park since its description includes three qualifiers. The park is advertised as over 21 acres, so I believe it could be an accurate statement. Highlights of the visit included the bird show, holding birdies and seeing a species of Duck that was new to me. The bird shows was hilarious. The majority of the audience seemed to be school children as shown in the picture below. The music they were playing prior to the show was My Humps by the Black Eyed Peas. The lyrics go “... What you gon' do with all that junk? All that junk inside your trunk? I'ma get, get, get, get, you drunk,
Get you love drunk off my hump...What you gon' do with all that ass? All that ass inside them jeans? I'm a make, make, make, make you scream. Make you scream, make you scream.” I’m glad little Malaysian children will at least be able to communicate their sexual desires in English.
At the conclusion of our bird park walk it started to pour rain. Instead of walking in the downpour back to the hop-on hop-off bus we decided to suck it up and pay $5 to take a cab to our next destination, the Central Market.
I didn’t find the Central Market to be all that exciting. It was a weird mix of merchandise that wasn’t particularly cheap. I had fun looking through the different stores but nothing was interesting enough for me to home. My highlights of the market were the Thai lunch Scott and I ate and my visit to the restroom. For lunch we had two sodas, a water, spring roll appetizers and two pad thais for $20. It was a pretty darn good and delicious to boot. After lunch I not surprisingly had to go to the restroom. In my stall there was a normal size toilet and a mini-toilet. I’ve never seen a legit flushable mini-toilet in my life. I was inside a women’s restroom that I had to pay 50 Ringgit to a lady to use. I WISH there was a way for me to get Scott in the stall with my because it would have been hilarious to have a picture of an adult sitting on the toilet. Instead you will have to settle for looking at the toilet with my shoe as a metric for scale.
Earlier in the day at the bird park I noticed Scott dropped one of the temples to his sun glasses. He somehow managed to lose a screw holding the frame together. On our walk over to the China Market I spotted an optical shop where I was certain he could get the glasses fixed. He gave the woman the glasses. She looked at them. I told her the glasses just needed a new screw to replace the one that had fallen out. She gave the glasses to what appeared to be her 15 year-old son to fix them. He worked on them for a minute and gave them back to his mom good as new. She then handed them to Scott. I was curious since there was no discussion about price, what she was going to charge for a screw, one minute of service and one minute of labor. The answer was 1 Ringgit or 33 cents.
The China market was fun. It wasn’t as good as the markets in China but it was considerably more fun than the Central Market. I managed to spend $30 but I can’t disclose what I purchased because Christmas is just around the corner!
Scott was ready for a refresher after his shopping haul. We made our way back to the hotel where I worked on the blog and did some hoop hunting research while Scott took a nap. We ate dinner in the executive lounge and then proceeded to hoop hunt. It was dark by this time but I wanted to do some scoping since I only have one chance at daylight tomorrow. We rode the subway down to the Petronas Towers. We took some photos in front of the buildings and began our hoop hunt. I found a pretty neat randomly placed hoop that doesn't appear to be long for this world. It seems as though the area surrounding it is under construction. The angle to the Petronas Towers isn’t perfect but I’m still pretty pleased. My only slight sadness lies in that the night shot was really cool, however, it would have been even cooler if I had Ben’s camera that he used in Italy to take the picture. I only brought my point and shoot. Before playing with Ben’s camera I had no idea how much of a difference a good camera can make. Now I know what I’m missing.
We’re now back at the hotel. It’s pushing midnight, so I better call it a night. I’m not sure what Scott has planned for tomorrow but you can be rest assured I’ll write about it tomorrow.
Until then,
Katy
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