Apologies, I've had to write this twice as it got deleted so it's not too detailed!
We arrived in Kuala Lumpur by bus which cost us the grand total of £8 each including a bottle of water! The coach would have been very fancy in it's day with fully reclining seats and seat massage, foot rests and Tv but most if it didn't work, none the less the seats were very comfy and with the exception of spending about an hour getting out of Singapore and into Malaysia, it was a very easy way to travel, easier than flying, plus, we still have all of our bags (just...) we were dropped in KL on the side of the road where a bunch of "taxi" drivers were waiting and agreed a price of 80p to take us to our hotel which is when we realised we had left Ellie's froggy bag on the bus, as if he had been waiting for this moment all of this life the driver bundled our stuff in them car and went "after that bus" fair play, we got to tragic lights, Jim bolted out of the car and up to the bus and got froggy back! Few!! After some confusion and time we got to our apartment which is lovely. 34 floors up with a view straight over one of the Petronas Towers, unfortunately we were here too late to get to the Grand Prix so we watch some of it on tv with a quick break for a swim in our wonderful 3rd floor infinity pool which over looks our road Jalang Pinang, on the corner of the pool is a glass fronted spa which you can go under water and look out on to the road! We skyped home at the same time as a major rain came down, loads of thunder and lightening. Amazing! We had to run out in the pouring rain and we had a meal at the shopping mall at the bottom of the petronas towers which was fairly hard work picking which food and then which for the kids, then trying to sooth their burning mouths as the food Jim had been told was mild ... Wasn't! Very kind! We took our weary little bodies back for some sleep!
March 31st and we went up Menara Tower to the viewing platform. The tower is 420 meters and lets you look over the huge variety KL has to offer, new and old, rich and poor. Of course there is major humidity so you can't see too far but just far enough. For lunch we cheated and went to TGI Fridays! Even that was cheap here, the kids meals were £1 each! In the afternoon we had a swim and the rain came down again, this time we were in the pool and it was great to go under water and watch the rain drops on the surface, they were like hundreds of bubbles. But the rain here is massive and it actually became uncomfortable when it was landing on us so we went in. After it finally cleared we went to KLCC park, it is epic, it's like they have taken every climbing frame, see saw and swing in Malaysia and put it in the middle of this park! It was very exciting for the kids but slightly tarnished by what must have been 100% humidity which was incredibly uncomfortable and the park police which kept blowing their bloody whistles at the parents. Jim got done for going on the see saw with Ellie! He booooed them! Yet again we went back to the mall to the food court for dinner. We did ourselves a favour and just for noodles and rice with chicken but the food really isn't great here, we need to get out! We spent the evening watching the view from the sofa.
Tuesday 1st April and we headed to Batu caves nice and early. They are some limestone caves up 272 steps where there are Hindu Temples. On the way up the steps are your first little surprises in the form of wild monkies living there! We got to the top and there are a few stalls selling everything from religious artefacts to ice creams to remote controlled helicopters! And then we go into the cave and there are ornate statues and temples, it's a really lovely place to visit. We got a taxi away for there to go to the central markets, Ellie is currently obsessed with all things signage so spent the taxi journey reading all of the signs in the taxi and the licence agreement for being a taxi driver! The central market was great, it had air conditioning which was so fantastic to me at that point, the walk to the caves was ridiculously hot, plus I had to carry Joey and my not too light handbag full of our supplies and water so I could have fallen to the floor by the time we walked in! Joey has come into his own suddenly and was waving and blowing kisses to all who would look at him! It was full of souvenir shops which we browsed around before grabbing some lunch. We then walked over to China Town which again was a few roads full of souvenirs and rip off goods but it was nice to be out of high rise. Every one was chatting to the kids as we went along, high fiving them and generally making a fuss. It was a nice area to be in. We bought Ellie some pink Dr Beats (maybe) headphones as she has weird shaped ears that won't keep earphones in! We did attempt to walk home from there but got over that idea pretty quickly and jumped in a cab again and jumped Into the pool, it is so refreshing, I'm really glad we opted for an apartment with a pool, it makes a major difference to your day. After the swim whilst Joey was napping there was a really big long storm, I haven't seen anything like it, in the fashion of the movies when someone is murdered style thunder and lightening, we even saw it hit the Menara Tower! When it finally did ease (not stop!) we headed back to the mall for dinner, it's nice and quick to get to in such shite / tropical weather! We picked up a couple of supplies to weigh down our luggage, headed home and that's it, that's our time in KL done! We need to wash our limited clothes as we do every night! Get packed and prep ourselves and our two, not three cases to go to phuket for our final week, really looking forward to this week but gutted also, not quite done with the tropics! Case still lost, Sydney now stating it definitely didn't get on our plane but nothing else, they still don't know where it is!
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