On the way to the furniture store we were talking about our plans for the rest of the day while we were sitting in the backseat of the car - going to a pet store to get necessities for Duke and Josie and then going to see them at Shayne's. Shanny overheard these plans and asked us if we had a pet store that we preferred to use. Of course, we didn't. We asked her if she thought there would be a difference in taxi fare from Mont Kiara (where we are staying and where we know there is a pet store) or from closer in to KL where she might know of a pet store. She said she did not think there would be much of a difference - Shayne lives kind of far out.
Shanny took us to a store called Asian Furniture - easy enough. From what we were told by Lana during our orientation, there area only a few furniture stores that do furniture leasing - this one, MK Furniture (we stopped and saw this one on the first day of house hunting, remember my breakdown?) and one other called Expat Furniture. We are quickly learning that anything that caters to expats is automatically a little more pricey plus Expat Furniture is the new store in town so it is still trying to make a name for itself. We were kind of glad that Shanny didn't take us to that one.
So we focused on the task at hand and started looking at furniture. The showroom wasn't that big but it was crammed with goodies! Since I understood better how things worked I didn't feel so overwhelmed by prices, plus there weren't any out on the furniture! One sure fire way to remove stress is to remove the stressor. We started with the living room. While we were discussing this Shanny announced that she was going to go find us a pet store close to where we were. This caught us completely off guard. All we could really say was thank you but it seemed so inadequate. And she was off...
We kept furniture shopping. The lady that was helping us was amazing. She was extremely helpful and knowledgeable. After only about two hours we had living room, dining room, master and guest bedrooms, office and patio furniture picked out and had to go and find something that was RM 20 to fill up our budget so we picked another floor lamp. Let me add that this included lamps for all rooms. I can't wait to get this furniture in our house so I can video it and show you!!!
During this Shanny showed up and announced that she had found our pet wonderland! She also had with her the most amazing treats...
Sadly, I do not know the name of these tasty morsels but I can certainly describe them to you! The shell is just like a light, flaky pie shell - just like it looks. The filling is sooo bad for you - it's egg yolks mixed with just a little bit of sugar and flour. It is not very sweet at all but it is oh sooo good!!! As you can tell from the picture a few of them were eaten by the time the picture was taken. Not all by me!!!!! I was forced to share! Had I not been told they were egg yolks I would have finished this off by myself. Once I was told that disturbing piece of information I had to exhibit self-control...DANG!!!!! When she brought them to us they were even fresh and hot...YUM!!!
Anyway, enough mouth watering memories for me...
We left the furniture store and went to the pet wonderland that Shanny found for us. We were able to get everything we needed for Duke and Josie except dog beds (they had sold out of them) and a rope for Duke (couldn't even see where they had a spot for them). So we got a ball for him instead. I forgot to mention that while we were at the furniture store Shanny also asked if she could take us to Shayne's house to save us from taking a taxi there and back. She is just amazing! I just have to say that I am so grateful that kindness is international...at least so far in my experience. I'm sure it is not everywhere in the world but it is alive and well in Malaysia!
Off to Shayne's we went. Patric had a great reunion with the dogs and they were happy to see me again. They were a little confused as to why they weren't leaving with us. And as I type this I realize that I deprived you of some great pictures of Patric on the floor with them since I didn't take any...sorry friends!!! We didn't stay very long since Shanny had an appointment with another client that afternoon. She brought us home where we got ready to head to the closest shopping area for dinner and to do some grocery shopping.
Here is Solaris...
This would be more like a strip center back home but none of the spaces are empty. =) We found a really good Italian restaurant called Michelangelo's and we both had really good calzones...
From here we went home and settled in for the night with our adoring cat, PK. I'm not sure how long she will remain adoring so I'm going to take advantage as long as I can.
Sunday promises to be pretty boring...no plans so far...could be good, could be bad. We shall see!
See you next post!
Monkey update: day seven...more of same, still no monkeys! I'm open to suggestions if anyone knows where to go...
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