This past weekend Alby and I flew out to KL (what the Malay call Kuala Lumpur). Just a little over 2.5 hours and we had touched down. This is what is so cool about this area of Asia, you can fly to so many countries with short little flights, which makes our little weekend trips so much easier. We arrived pretty late in teh evening and we lost an hour due to the time difference. The drive from the airport to downtown KL is about 45 minutes. We were lucky that our timing was such that we were able to watch part of the firework competition being held in KL. It's about a week or so long all culminating in the celebration of Malaysia's 50th Anniversary this coming weekend. Friday was Japan's day in the competition. The fireworks were amazing, and we were happy that we were able to catch them on our drive to the city :) I'd like to say I planned it that way.
When we arrived at our hotel we were happy to see that we had booked a hotel in a very happening area called Asian Heritage Row. It was a street filled with late night restaurants, bars, lounges, and clubs :) Since this weekend trip we did want to actually see more of the night life in Asia, this was great! We quickly dropped our stuff off into the room and headed to see what was happending on the streets. We grabbed a table at a little cafe and set up to do some people watching. Malaysia is definitely a true melting pot. We saw so many people from different backgrounds all hanging out and socializing. We didn't see so much the cliques we so often see at home with races grouping up. People were definitely more blended. Speaking of blended...we decided we'd try out the sangria at the cafe, since they claimed theirs was very unique. It was unique all right, instead of soaking fruit in wine, they blended the fruits in red wine :) So you ended up with a wine smoothie...maybe we are just spoiled with the excellent sangria our friends Dani and Enrique make, to really appreciate their unique sangria.
The next day was filled with the usually shopping/siteseeing. It seems everywhere we go has a Little India and a Chinatown, nothing too new there. It was a little funny that most of the stalls in Chinatown were run by Indians :) We did get stuck in a sudden downpour, where we had to seek shelter under a bus stop till the rain stopped (about 20 minutes). I was very excited to see a sign that said San Francisco on it (since I was getting home sick) but was surprised to see it was a coffee house...when did we start making coffee in San Francisco, I thought that was a Seattle thing, anyways.
KL was a fun city, but I'm ready for the beach....and no more shopping (well at least for 1 weekend)!
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