Malaysia KL part 2 - cause I took a lot of pictures.

These two pictures have nothing to do with Malaysia and everything to do with Brighton and her loads of personality. 

This is her Superpunch. I think Jace must have taught this to her

This is some weird ice cream Suzy got. it didn't taste good (the weird green stuff, I can't remember what it's called, starts with a C).

Here is a view of the Batu Caves. You walk up 300 steps or so to get to them. 

Here was a picture of our Guide, he was great. 

Here's a blurry picture of Suzy, Brighton and I. Brighton won't stop sucking her thumb. 

Here are some of the cool alcoves. Kate of course is not impressed. 

Brighton is not suitably scared of snakes yet. 

The girls had fun having a snake to hug (for only 10 Ringgit!) 

This is an Elephant and a Cow depending on how you look at the head. 

yeah, starting up the steps. 

There were these types of Monkey's all up the stairs. These were not nice monkeys though like the other ones in the other post. 

These Monkey's were very aggressive. If you had food, or other things they would try to steal it here's one who grabbed a guy's milk, opened it, and started sticking his paw in to drink. 

These monkeys would watch you like a hawk. Or a monkey. 

Here is Milk Thief

Here's one eating a half coconut. 

The kids sure were fascinated, then after we bought them ice cream and they started to get aggressive and try to steal it (they did Steal Calvin's Ice cream at one point). We had to watch them carefully and be willing to kick and hiss at them.

Here's Brighton Hissing at one.

There was a cool view looking up from the cave floor. 

Aaahhh, Gatorade. 

This was called Dark Cave, it was a side path on the way down that could be explored. There were fun Bats, large centipedes (like 4-6 inches long) and large spiders (venomous)  I sacrificed and volunteered to sit out with Brighton and wait for the 40 minute tour.  At one point, after they reached a suitable spot, the guide asked everyone to turn out the lights.  She said don't worry about the spiders, they don't move much from their locations. The Centipedes sure weren't shy though, Suzy said that some of the kids got fairly freaked out and her heart was sure pounding int he absolute darkness. 

This could have been the last picture I ever took of them. Luckily, its not. Also, Brighton had to go to the bathroom at one point while they were gone. Luckily they let me into a side "employees only" path otherwise I would have had to walk down 170 steps and back up with Brighton.

Monkey's!

This is a normal house the villagers live in

We also got to feed elephants! the kids really liked this part. 

Jace stretching his little heart out. 

Here are the girls washing the elephant. 

They had a bit of a splashing spree as well with the boys on the other side. 

and each other. The boys had the right idea of standing upriver of the elephant. I did leave a few gifts. 

Oh yeah, we're so cool. 

Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia and Monkies and Elephants and Snakes. You get the picture.

We recently took a trip up to Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lumpur (KL) . Why they name their capital after a marsupial from Australia, I know not. It turned out to be VERY fun.  Suzy and her friend Terri did a great job planning it (we caravaned up with the Stringhams). A couple of things I learned, make sure you have exit stamps in your passport. We had Becca Jo (Stringham girl who is Kate's age) in the car with us. She had an Entrance stamp but no exit stamp from their last trip to Legoland in Malaysia. We got stopped, had to go to the office, took an extra 45 minutes before they let us finally go.  Jace was riding in their car with his friend Calvin.  Cort is pictured below with Jace and Calvin and a baby elephant. 

Here's Suzy and Brighton scrubbing away. This is Brighton's first time scrubbing a baby elephant. 

Jace looks pretty excited here. 

half the fun was the splashing

Here Suzy looks like she's married to Cort with one extra kid. 

This was a hot springs. The water was just shy of boiling (at least that's what it felt like). This was a pool you could walk through. Everyone was afraid to do it until this little girl kept doing it. 

next we went to feed the monkeys. This was my favorite part. These were friendly monkey's (silverbacks?).  We got a bag of food (some leaves they like and some bananas) from a guy at the site. 

If you hold the food just right, the monkeys will climb on you. This got to be everyone's goal. 

Suzy made some good friends with Jorge

I don't really think there friendship was based on deep interpersonal communication. To me it seemed somewhat superficial and based on her enabling his food habit. 

me and my monkey Harold however had a deep, meaningful relationship.

Ah, those were the days.

Faith and her monkey friend Jillian 

Here's Kate enjoying Celias Armpit smell  

Brighton had a standoffish relationship with her monkey acquaintance Joe Bob. 

This was in Malaca on the way up to KL. We stopped here and ate at the Hard Rock Cafe. 

We went on a brief walk and experienced some of the city. For about 40 minutes or so. 

Jace thought it was great. Brighton wasn't impressed.

Kate really wanted to go to this place that had a foot sign. We didn't know what it meant though. 

The Petronas Towers.  At one point the tallest buildings in the world, now numbers 9 and 10 I believe.

Petronas Towers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

What! there are cars flying off the walls! Crazy talk. 

These were the Batu Caves. A series of Buddhist temples I believe.  

each one of these alcoves seems to have multiple Gods in it. I obviously am well acquainted with the history and all that. 

At the end of the caves they had this cool zoo type thing with Snakes and other animals. 

We later went on a boat ride to see the fireflies. No one believed they were fireflies because they looked like Christmas lights hanging in the trees. Then driver went up close and we could see the actual flies, so we believed. 

Faith is sure cute. Too bad we went super fast and she had to hold on to her hat instead of wearing it once we got going. 

This lighthouse was by where the monkeys were. 

We went home the next day after eating at a Mexican restaurant for lunch and shopping at an H&M. Definitely the highlight of the trip (I jest).  I took us over 2 hrs to get through the checkpoint on the way back because we timed it wrong.