One weekend a year, Ryan and I try to "get away" from it all, including our dear children. We have been blessed each year with family or friends who are willing to care for our children for 3 days. This year we have Kari, Monte, and Vanessa to thank! You each are much appreciated!
We are also rather obsessed with adding stamps to our passports, so we decided to leave Thailand this time and venture off to a place neither of us had been before . . . Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In this photo we are riding the express train from the airport into the center of KL, a distance that takes an hour's bus ride but only 28 minutes on the train. Time was saved, but money was definitely not saved, so on the return trip we caught the bus!
We stayed in a hotel that was advertised as "5 star quality for 1 star price." The catch is that you have to pay extra for a bunch of add-on's. So if you want towels, air-conditioning, etc, you pay extra for those. We found the place clean, comfortable, but VERY cozy! The space between the wall and bed was literally a foot on each side.
Notice the beautiful "art work" over our bed?!
One of 3 advertisements that graced the walls of our hotel room.
We spent part of one day in Putrajaya, the government seat of Malaysia.
We were impressed by the beautiful architecture, the peacefulness, and the orderliness of this planned city.
A mosque in Putrajaya
From another angle
Some public restrooms, where you paid as if you were getting a soda from a machine, in order to enter the facility.
A yummy roasted eggplant, tomato, and mozzarella cheese pizza.
We ate two meals a day while there . . . a late breakfast and an early supper . . . with a few indulgences in between times. Amazingly, I didn't take many food pictures of this trip! This picture is Ryan posing with our desserts at Sweet Recipe, a chain of restaurants that Deanna introduced me to one memorable day in Bangkok.
The restaurant we kept returning to (3 meals there in 3 days = half of our meals in KL were eaten there!) was "Bakti Woodlands," a South Indian restaurant where taste and price meet to produce an irresistible concoction!
Ryan and I each ordered a set plate (he got masala dosa and I got idly, for those who are interested in the details) and mango lassis, and we paid less than $3!
It was a weekend full of relaxing, adventuring, and reconnecting with each other.
