Friday's Adventure

Courtney slept in today for the first time the whole trip. Usually she's wide awake at 6:00AM, but she slept until about 9:00 this morning. We got up, showered, had breakfast (banana pancakes...they were quite good), and then packed our stuff up, and stored it in the lock-up room on the main floor of the hostel. We have to catch a bus at 10:00PM tonight, and the hostel dude told us we can store our bags in the room for 2RM/bag until we need to go. He also told us we could use the showers later in the day, which was grand.

So, off we went to Lake Garden Park, a very large forest reserve and park in the city of KL. We walked there in the sticky, humid heat. It was nice when we got there to be able to walk in the shade of the trees, and not the concrete jungle. It's quite a nice place, they have the worlds largest netted bird park there, which was 22RM to get in. A little expensive compared to what we're used to, but oh well. You can tell that KL (and Malaysia) is starting to get touristy, because places like this start charging more. It was worth it, it was great to see all the birds flying around. One bird started attacking Courtney, and started trying to bite her legs, and she was freaking out. I got the whole thing on video, we just watched it, it's hilarious. They had monkeys in there too, and they were cool to see. They had a photo place where you could get your photo taken with a bunch of birds on your arms and shoulders, so we did that. It was only 5RM.

We walked around some more of the park and it was soooooooo hot today, I couldn't believe it. We decided to head home, but kinda got lost in the park, and wandered. We walked so much today, probably more today than any other day, and Courtney is sick of walking. She tells me she's not gonna walk on this trip anymore, she's sick of walking. Ahh, she'll get over it. The details of how we got list aren't important, though. (Although it might have something to do with me taking a wrong turn.)

Whenever we go walking in KL, I sweat and sweat and sweat, and I can't stop. I keep remembering Darren's (my brother) video of when he was in KL a few years ago, and how hot and humid it was, and how much he was sweating, and he took video of himself sweating so much...I feel the same way.

AFter walking the whole way around the park, we managed to find the National Mosque, which was where we came in at (BTW, the National Mosque is quite impressive too), and from there we found our way home.

It's presently 6:30, we have about 3.5 hours before we catch our night bus to Haddyai, Thailand. Geeze, I hope it's not as hot up there as it is in KL!!!! I imagine it probably is, though.

Until next time.