Flooding in Kuala Lumpur

We made it to KL (yay!). It's a crazy melting-pot of a city and though we've only really seen about 6 hours of what it has to offer we've been lost at least once in each of those six hours.

It's late and we've been chugging away at a computer for 1.5 hours trying to tickets up to thailand booked, so we won't be too verbose here, but here are a few of the highlights...

We spent a few wonderful days hanging out in Chinatown in Melaka, Malaysia, eating all kinds of crazy food and hanging out in life-sized pirate ship replica museums (pictures to come in the next picture post). It was hot there. Verrrry hot, and sweaty. And our hostel, though run by the most gregarious of people (we'll call him Howard, for the sake of brevity) we have met here to date, did not have any A/C. So we had three sweaty days of awesomeness. From the first moment we were there, he insisted that we (along with every other hostel guest he ran across) join him for a food adventure that evening. Picture seven westerners (and howard) having fondue... except the fondue is actually a boiling pot of satay sauce, and the items put in the satay sauce are gathered from a giant buffet full of skewered (and sometimes unidentifiable)goodies, including, but not limited to the biggest shrimp we have ever seen. Again awesome, and amazing that we escaped food-poisoning free.

On our first day in KL we met up with the Rain. I thought I had seen rain before, down in florida, on a muggy summer night. But compared to this, that floridian rain was a sprinkle. We were standing at a corner, waiting for a break in cars to cross a street (dry, at this point). We made it half-way across the street and stopped in the median to wait for a break in the cars coming the other direction (a mild sprinkle at this point). By the time we got to the far side of the road, we were both soaked to the bone... completely. Somehow in the amount of time that it took us to wait for a break in the cars and cross the road, the bladder of heaven opened up and we were caught in the deluge. It was ridiculous.

Last note, before we turn in for the night (and we apologize for the lack of editing and coherence in this post, we're sleepy). Today we went to a mall. It was ten stories tall and had a theme park included inside. Within the theme park was a roller coaster that stretched over at least 5 of the interior stories and did a loop-de-loop. Mall of America, look out.

Hugs,
Team Wander

PS. Miah convinced Leslie to chop all her hair off. He has a hot wife.