Saturday started out with a little business that had to be taken care of. We have been renting a car for about a month and it is time for it to be returned. Our real estate agent, Shanny, had offered to take us car shopping when we were ready...we were ready. I contacted her while I was doing my domestic duties and got us in her schedule for Saturday afternoon.
We originally thought we were going to go with a used car or one that was built locally. The used car idea quickly left the agenda. We looked at the Perodua Myvi (local car) and really liked it. The draw backs were that it is unreliable and does not have a good resale value. Then we looked at all of the new import car dealerships. You would be amazed at how much the cars we love so dearly in the US cost over here! Import tariffs are CRAZY!!!!
Anyway, we decided on a Suzuki Swift. It's all about the small car over here!
And yes, it will be blue. =)
After we finished car shopping we spent the rest of the afternoon at The Curve. That's the mall that is within walking distance of our house and has Ikea in it - but we didn't go anywhere near Ikea. We didn't even have a purpose for this mall trip. We were just there to be there. This was the first time that we had the chance to just explore this mall...it was nice to just spend time hanging out.
Sunday was even better. We got up and watched our first UFC fight since we have been here...WOO HOO!!! It was really nice to start the day with a good fight card! After we got that out of the way we headed into KLCC for some real exploration. Here is a picture on the way in...
There is a mall called Suria that is basically attached to the Petronas towers. This mall is HUGE and absolutely beautiful! By the time we got there it was lunch time so we headed to what equates to the food court. We each had what is called a rice clay pot. Mine had chicken, vegetables (I'm not sure what kind other than it was green) and egg.
It doesn't look too bad, huh? Looks are deceiving. The chicken was full of bones. They literally cut the whole chicken up and used every part of it as is. CRAZY!!! Plus, the rice is cooked in the clay pot so most of it was burned and stuck to the bottom. Well, that's one experience down (and this was before the email from my brother). We found out later from one of the ladies in Patric's group at work that you shouldn't eat at the food courts in malls...hmmm...
After lunch we headed out to go to the towers. Our goal was to head up to the skywalk. Then we found this...
So as a consolation I took a picture of Patric in front of one of the sculptures at one of the entrances.
Here are some shots of the towers and a picture of the main building between the towers.
These are some buildings that are near the towers that I thought were cool.
From the towers we weren't that far from Hard Rock Cafe so we decided to walk to it.
We used Google Maps to get us there and by the time we arrived we were dying of thirst and hungry since the "lunch" we had at Suria wasn't what we had hoped for. Plus we were looking forward to a familiar meal. The most hilarious thing happened when we arrived at Hard Rock Cafe. The restaurant had been rented out for a pre-teen birthday party. The place was crawling with American pre-teens. It looked like the theme of the party had something to do with famous people since they were all dressed like people from gossip magazines and there were adults dressed in all black with Paparazzi on the back of their shirts taking pictures at the entrance. There were other adults dressed the same with Crew printed on the back of their shirts. The only area that was available for us to sit and eat was the bar...so we sat there and ate and watched the entertainment provided by the kids. While we were at Hard Rock I took advantage of the opportunity to add to my shot glass collection!
They are waiting for their brothers and sisters to arrive!!! =)
After we finished eating and when we had about all we could stand of the "entertainment" we headed back to Suria so we could find our car and head home. All parking garages require payment in order to get out of them and all malls have parking garages. So on our way out of Suria we stopped at the auto pay machine to pay our parking ticket. The problem was that the machine wouldn't read our ticket. We got to have our first experience at tracking down the garage management office.
The office was on a different floor from where we parked but it was all part of the day's adventure. The people in the office were really nice. We have learned, unfortunately the hard way, to write the location of our car on our parking ticket. When they had to keep our original ticket they saw that we had written the location on it and made sure to remind us of where our car was. That was really cool! So we made it back to our car without incident and headed home. Of course, the journey home had a few extra turns even with GPS...all part of the adventure!
See you next post!!
Monkey update: KLCC is entirely too busy for monkeys so I really didn't expect to see any...but I haven't given up hope! =)
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