Kuala Lumpur

We took a short weekend trip to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - they call it KL for short here. Funny that when we first got to Singapore I told Jason I couldn't wait to go to KL, not sure what I knew about it or why I was so excited about it since now being here longer everyone says the only thing to do there is see the two tall towers, but it did end up surprising us after all! We went with some of our Singapore friends; Quinn, Katie, Aaron and Ashley and took off on Friday on a flight (not a bus and a ferry like our last Malaysian experience). We stayed at the very cute Hotel Maya and after Aaron told him he was "The Aaron Lazor" we got our rooms upgraded to suites! Nice job Aaron - I'm either going to try that the next time or the honeymoon line. Jason wanted to know what was so great about having a suite and I said, "Hello, you get a couch!" and who doesn't want a couch?

The first night we hit the night food stalls, ate all the popular Malay favorites from bok choy to sting ray, followed by a trip to a fruit stand, shisha (hooka) bar, a jazz club, and then back to the hotel for a "competitive" game of dice!

Do we look impressed or what? Photo by: Aaron

Group photo by Aaron minus Aaron

Stingray photo by Aaron or Ashley

Ashley was showing us how to pick out the perfect Mangosteen.

Flower for the lady - photo by Aaron

The next day we headed out to the Batu Caves (I failed to mention in the Chiang Mai post that an excellent thigh workout is riding an elephant, but the second best workout would be to go and climb the 272 stairs to the Batu Caves and back down!) The caves are debated to be one of the holiest Hindu temples (not sure what the debate is or what makes one more holier then the next but there is the fact regardless). On the outside of the cave there is no debate that this is the world's tallest (140.09 ft. high) statue of Murugan, a Hindu deity made out of gold. So we climbed the 272 stairs, saw the cave, saw more mischievous monkey's, took more photos of mischievous monkey's, got leaked on the head a few times by water coming from the top in hopes that it wasn't bat poop and climbed back down the 272 stairs. Time for more food for sure!

Did we mention that you have to have a lot of patience when traveling with a large group of friends :)- good photo Aaron!

The view of the towers from our hotel room!

Last night dinner at Bijan Restaurant, awesome food!

A very large salted fried fish

I almost forgot to mention a BIG accomplishment of this trip! We....tried.....DURIAN!! Well in cake form. Haven't geared up for the full blown fruit yet but the cake did have a pure durian layer in the middle of it so I think it gave me a good enough taste that I can now die I've tasted durian. News flash** it tastes exactly how it smells! Like gasoline and keeps you reminded that you ate it all night with toxic lasting burps. Enough for me thanks!