Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Finishing off the trip - Kuala Lumpur

We had two days at the end of our trip to enjoy Malaysia's capital and largest city, Kuala Lumpur. We stayed at Berjaya Times Square, a huge hotel and shopping complex downtown. The room was huge - the bathroom alone was easily twice the size of our entire room in Singapore. It was so big that Brian and Katie stopped to stay with us for a day on their way home from Bali, and it was not at all cramped.

We didn't do anything cultural or historical in KL - we saw the Petronas Towers, and we shopped. Our hotel had a movie theater, bowling alley, restaurants galore, and amusement park, the world's largest Borders, etc - so we didn't need to go out much.

The only downside was an unfortunate pickpocketing incident...but we won't let that color our overall vacation experience. It was fun to spend a couple weeks with just the two of us, touring through the cities we visited. I didn't have to think for a second about work, so it was truly relaxing. I don't know how many places like this we will be able to travel to later in life, so I happy to take advantage of the opportunity now - even if, as Brian says, "it means we are broke for the rest of our life."

-alan

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