For most of the trip we have been tourists first, internet users second, and vacationers maybe third. Lots of picture taking, seeing cultural/historical sights, walking/riding across town, and transversing countries and large bodies of water (in a single leap). Today we decided to take a different approach. I'll provide a rough time estimate for our activities to illustrate.
8:30 I rolled out of bed and headed downstairs to the lobby to get wireless internet and check-up on the world and loved ones back home.
9:30 Head up to the room to dump off my computer and meet Fernando to head off to breakfast. Our free breakfast here includes a various combination of toast & jelly, eggs, chicken sausages (Muslim country so no pork), beans, rice, melons, and juice. Its not great, but its free so we happily eat.
10:30 After hitting the shower and getting ready for the day, we head out onto the town. Today we took a new form of transportation and tried the monorail. It worked well and took us all the way to our destination in less than 15 minutes of A/Ced comfort.
10:45-Noon We visited the Times Square building in KL. It isn't much like NYC, but it is a really big development with two huge towers, a massive indoor mall with movie theatre, an IMAX, an amusement park, a bowling alley, and all kinds of other stuff.
Noon-2:00pm Walk along the streets of KL visiting the nice district with the Ritz and J Willard Marriott, dropping by 7-11 to get "Celebratory Slurpies" (what are we celebrating, who knows? Did we ever really need a reason before, that was just the excuse), and then walking through the City Jungle to get a feel of a rain forest. During our travels we also stopped by the Sri Lankan Airways office to purchase my final plane ticket for the trip.
2:00 - 4:30pm Returned to Times Square to buy movie tickets for the evenings showing, attend Cosmo's World or whatever the themepark was called, and bowl two games at the mall's alley. The rollercoaster was pretty good, and the twirl you around 100 feet up ride was alright, but I loved the BumperCars. I've always been a sucker for these since I was a kid and it was great because everyone feared the big white guy and rarely hit me. Fernando and I teamed up the 2nd time and beat some people pretty good. Bowling was nice but neither of us bowled that well.
4:30-6:00pm We went and got a 60-minute full-body massage at one of the local parlors. On the whole it was pretty good. The face, legs, and arms part were wonderful (they had to wake me up when it was time to flip over), but the back was a little too strong at times. I felt good afterwards and throughout the night so I liked it.
6:00-7:15pm Dinner in the foodcourt. They had every kind of food imaginable for Asia I guess (no Mexican), and I ended up eating the Meat Lasanga which was pretty good.
7:30-9:15 We went and watched a movie, Next, which was not the greatest in my opinion. My theory is that Nicolas Cage agreed to star in it and produce it solely so he could make out with Jessica Biel. The show just wasn't that good, had a strange ending, and bad dialogue.
After this we went home and I am now getting caught up on my blog. So a running total of today's expenditures: transport ($1.50), 7-11 ($1), bowling ($3), movie ($3), dinner ($3), amusement park ($7), massage ($20), hotel room ($13). On the whole today cost like 50 bucks and was great. Much more relaxing and having fun than some of our days in the past. Especially if you take our the massage, we did tons of fun things for way cheap.
Tomorrow we have an 8-hour train ride to Singapore and then I will find out the Suns fate. I hope things go well because I'd really hate to start my stay there with the idea of the Spurs winning the NBA title.
2 comments:
Who else to be the bearer of bad news but me?
Looks like the Spurs are going to win. It's a shame. My love for Steve Nash will endure, though. That nose band aid gets me every time!
I guess you'll have to start supporting the advancing Jazz now, eh?
GO JAZZ!!!!!!!
are you bowling with a 10-pound ball? that better be metric dude. I also love the bumper cars, they had some at the carnival in El Gulfo last month, they went about 0.3 mph...sweet!
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