Thursday, January 23, 2003

Waiting...

It's Thursday morning, Stephanie and Jason have left for the Cameron Highlands area (we'll be heading up there later on), which is good, because the tiny room the four of us were in was WAY to small for four people with big backpacks. We may meet up with them later on in Australia.

We had breakfast this morning, and we're waiting for another room now, we have to go back to the hostel in about an hour and get another room, so we're just killing time at the internet cafe two floors down from the hostel.

There's a small restaurant in the lobby of the hostel, so it's great for breakfast. We had Pete's Special, which is two eggs, toast, chicken sausages, hashbrowns, tea or coffee, and freshly squeezed orange juice, for 8.80RM (about $3.50CDN) The oj is amazingly good. Better than any oj I've had in Canada, as far as I can recall. The tea is amazing too. Tea is a pretty big thing in Malaysia, up near the Cameron Highlands, there are lots of tea plantations, which we'll tour when we get up there.

Ever since we left, Courtney won't stop eating.

The Chinese New Year is Feb. 1 this year, I guess either Hong Kong or Singapore is the place to be for that. We're planning on being in Singapore for that.

As I mentioned in my last journal last night, we've got some laundry happening. We pick it up later this afternoon, so today, Court and I are just gonna go around KL and check out the sights, the Central Market, some of the old mosques, museums and stuff. We're not gonna spend a lot of cash today.

With regards to Darren's comment about too many pictures: It's free! We're gonna take as many pictures as we want! In fact, those were just Courtney's pics from the waterpark. I'm presently uploading more from my camera, as I type this. So nyah on you.

Does anyone have any recommendations on what to do in Southern Peninsular Malaysia (near Singapore)? We're thinking of trying to head down there as we get nearer the Chinese New Year, so we don't have a long trip to Singapore for the party. We still haven't got a Malaysia travel book (just our general SE Asia ones), but when we get one of those, I'm sure there'll be something in them.

The Muslim and Hindu people here are so nice. Courtney loves the dresses and saraongs and outfits they wear. They are so colorful and spectacular, and they are typically very beautiful. Of course, the Muslim women cover there heads, even at the water park, there was a Muslim woman in the wave pool, totally convered up. She was swimming, head under water, she came up with her head still covered. It's a total contrast to the bikini's around there.

I'm uploading more water park pictures right now, so check my web site for more pictures.

That's all for now, I guess.

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