1. Eric already got pulled over by the police. For what you ask, if you know Eric you can probably make a decent educated guess. Survey says...talking on his phone. Yep, he was pulled over for talking on his cell phone. Apparently, it's ok to drive like a nut but not talk on your cell while driving. Things are done a little differntly here though, Eric asked the officer if he could 'pay his fine' directly to the officer. Eric paid RM100 which is a little of $30 to get out of his ticket. Normally it only takes RM 50, but he didn't have a RM 50 on him, oh well.
2. Eric and I found an Outback Steakhouse and had lunch there. We took it back to where it all began, as Eric and I met at an Outback in Houston. Awww, the memories :) We had a Typhoon Bloom instead of a Bloomin' Onion...YUMMO
We went on our first vacation over here. We went to Pangkor Island, left super early Saturday morning and spent 5 hours in the car getting there and it should have only taken 2-1/2 hrs.
(Side note to send a shout out to Eric who as I type is messing with his ipad and playing our wedding song <3)
So, 5 hours later and lots of Chinese New Year traffic and we made it to the port where we pick up the ferry to the island. I had been told not to expect too much, so we lowered our standards a little and were pleasantly surprised when we arrived. The beach was nice, the water was good, the swim up bar and bartenders were DEF GOOD, the room was ok. We had a great time, met some nice people, actually met a couple on the ferry that were from Houston, go figure. We chatted with them over the weekend and some other people and just had a great time. We rented a little 100cc motorbike for 2 of the days and cruised around the island and saw some sights and had some good food and felt the wind in our hair (a little scary for me riding with Eric, but we survived) He really enjoyed as it's been a few years since he's been on a bike. We went to a Chinese Temple on the island as it was during Chinese New Year, it was really cool. They had a mini great wall surrounding the entire grounds, dragons everywhere. Just really cool to see. Pics are attached in the link listed below. We also saw some Sacred Rock, which is just as it sounds, it's a rock. Not sure why it's sacred, and we saw a Dutch Fort that's been left on the island, it's really small and not much to it. They had birds and wildlife everywhere. They had hornbills which were pretty neat looking birds. I had gotten up from my beach chair to check out the birds next in the tree next to me to turn around and find 3 of the hornbills on my chair eating my fries, ha! I fed some peacocks too :) We saw some monkeys sneak into someones room that left their door open and they kept coming out onto the balcony with the food and go back into the room when they ate it, just back and forth, it was HI-LAR-IOUS! (pics in the link below) Watch out for those mokeys, lock your doors!!! Monday night they had fireworks and they released 4 huge lanterns into the air from off the beach, it was really neat to see. I thoroughly enjoyed our first Chinese New Year experience in Malaysia! But, it can't last, Tuesday came too soon and we headed back to KL, vacay over, boo :(
More pictures in this link if you are bored or interested...there's like 250 pics : /
On our way back home we stopped by the airport (after getting a little lost) and saw the girls who arrived in KL that weekend. Man were they happy to see us and I was so happy to see them too! They were delivered to us on Saturday Jan 28th. So happy to have them home now. They were a little upset at us though. After Lucy calmed down, it only took about 3 hours for her to start breathing normal, I gave them baths and once done they both preceeded to pee on the floor, awesome...Ava also pooped on the floor like a minute after that, awesome again. They have since calmed down and seem to have adjusted well. They actually like their stroller that I have to put them in to take them down the elevator and off property to go to the bathroom. It's pretty funny to see them in there, they just sit back and enjoy the ride.
Eric's birthday was good. We went to the KL Tower, they have a revolving restaurant like Spindletop, only a little higher. Enjoyed the buffet dinner and a couple drinks then headed to Changkat Street (a smaller scale 6th St) to a Whiskey Bar where Eric got a nice glass of scotch and a cigar. Good Times!
We bought our first piece of art over here. I am very excited about it. It's a Batik painting, it's done on a cloth and outlined, waxed, painted, waxed, painted, waxed, etc etc....all in all it's really cool and I LOVE our piece. It's called The Goddess.
We now have cable and internet...WOOHOO! I can't believe we finally got interent, about freakin' time Malaysia, about time! Everything runs a little slow here (and that's being nice).
Eric had Wednesday off this week and he gets Monday and Tuesday off next week, so we have another 4 day weekend ahead of us to enjoy and make our way around the city figuring it out a little better.
Stay Classy :)
one last fun one...this is my impression of godzilla ;)
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