Change of plans...

We've had a drastic change of plans. On the spur of the moment today, we decided to go to Thailand instead of sticking around Malaysia. We have to come back to Malaysia later on to get our flight to Sydney, so we'll do Malaysia then. The Perentian Islands will be open up again then, so everything will be good. We're taking a bus from KL to Hattyai, Thailand. It's a night bus, leaves at 10:00PM Friday night, and arrives Saturday morning at around 8:00AM, then we can catch other trains or busses to wherever. We're gonna go to Krabi, and start hitting the beaches and islands there.

So, what did we do today? Not to much exciting stuff. We first walked around Central Market (a big indoor market to buy all kinds of things). then we visited Merdeka Square (Freedom Square), and saw the Sultan Abdul Samad building (dunno what it is, but it's pretty nice from the outside, the Masjid Jamek mosque (we couldn't go in, long pants and long sleeve shirt are required), and went through the National History Museum. All were located right at Merdeka Square.

We then walked to the Petronas Towers and got tickets to go up to the bridge that connects the two towers. I believe it's on the 141st floor, and gives a good view of KL.

On the way back to the hostel, we got lost, and walked aimlessly for an hour, trying to see something recognisable. We finally made it to the Masjid Jamek mosque, and tried to retrace our steps from there back to the hostel. That didn't work, we got lost in Chinatown. AFter quite a while more of wandering, we finally found the pink building that houses the hostel. We were both laughing at being lost. We both totally enjoyed being lost, and just wandering around the streets of KL.

We dropped our stuff off, then went on a hunt for zip-lock plastic bags. Courtney found that by stuffing clothes in the zip-lock bags, then sealing them, she can really pack in the clothes. Now she can buy a whole bunch of new clothes. Alas, it is *IMPOSSIBLE* to buy zip-lock bags in KL. Which is strange, because the hostel dude has some zip-lock bags he uses to store stuff in his locker. We asked hostel dude where we could get some, and he wasn't sure. He suggested a couple of places in Chinatown, and drew a little map for us, he said these stores specialized in plastic bags. He also indicated he wasn't sure of the location of these shops, but the map showed where he thought they may be. So, off we go, in search of plastic zip-lock bags. We follow the map to the destinations he provided, and can't find any plastic bag stores. I mention to Courtney that I find it hard to believe that there'd be any stores that would specialize in selling plastic bags, and she laughs, and says after walking around Chinatown, she'd believe anything. Anyway, we did come across quite a few shops selling bags (purses, backpacks, daypacks, etc.) in that area, and I figure that's maybe what he was showing us, and thought maybe we could get what we wanted there.

So, next we try a 7-11. No bags.

We run across a supermarket...no bags.

We run across another supermarket...no bags.

We run across another 7-11...no bags.

We've come to the conclusion that any zip-lock plastic bags in KL are black-market items, and you have to have contacts in order to acquire them.

On our search for zip-lock bags, we stopped at a McDonalds, and I had a double cheeseburger combo. Mmm, good. Taste the same as McDonalds in Canada.

Courtney's on a "eat-healthy" kick now. She's been eating too much junk food, so she didn't indulge in McDonalds, instead had spaghetti at the hostel (which I had last night...it's very good!) Did I mention that Courtney won't stop eating??? She's always hungry. She just won't stop eating. That's a good thing, though!

We're not uploading any pictures today, there was nothing terribly exciting. In fact, today seemed totally dull and boring compared to yesterday. In fact, today kinda sucked. When I suggested to Courtney we go to Thailand right away, she got all excited. We love the fact that we're not saddled down to any plans or anything, and can suddenly change plans whenever we feel like it!

Anyway, so far so good. In fact, Courtney and I are getting along great. We're perfect travel partners, it seems. We're both fast walkers (when we're in a group, it's always us two that are way in front of everyone else), if it's just the two of us, I never have to stop and wait for her, nor her for me, she never needs to stop and take a rest of anything (neither do I), we're both totally open to doing anything, and we both don't care about "getting lost" and just wandering. we're getting along perfect.

I suppose that's it for today. There probably won't be too much for updates for a couple of days, so savour every moment of this update!

Bye, and take care everyone.