Day 21 of 22

Today was our last day in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.  It is really a great city and if you can pass through here on your way through Asia - you have to do it.  A 1st-World country, Malaysia is full of wonderful sights, excellent shopping, warm people and beautiful restaurants. It was the perfect place for our last stop!

We checked out the Petronis Twin Towers today.  We had done our research and found out that they give out 1000 tickets to go up to the sky deck each day (which is the platform that connects the two towers). 

They open at 8.30 am but the line actually starts forming around 6:30 am.  Its first come first serve and the tickets are free so if you get in line and want 100 tickets, you get 100 tickets.  Once they are all sold out, that’s it for the day.  Weird.  Why not sell tickets and have people go up in groups of 50 or something?! 

Anyway we set the alarm for 6.30 thinking we’ll get there at 7am and get in line, wait for 1-1/2 hours and get a good time slot for the day.  Alarm goes off, we quietly debate getting up and decide it’s just not worth it, and fall back asleep until 8.00am. 

We showed up at the towers at about 9.30 and of course the line was long, and they were already almost sold out.  Many would end up leaving with no tickets after standing in line for hours.

“Luckily” I say “there is a very nice mall under the towers, and we’ll just have to go there”.  We also caught another film today ‘Kick Ass’ and had a yummy lunch which included a couple Gold Mango Margaritas!

And we did finish off our day of shopping there, and back at the other mall “The Pavillion”.  Birdie finally found things he wanted, a new work bag, some shirts, sunglasses, new flip-flops (thongs, you silly Australians) and some PS3 games. At the end he is happy that he got some things for himself and not just all for me.  I won’t tell you what I got for myself but, let’s just say it was a spree. 

Let’s recap the money conversion:

$1 AUD = $ .92 USD (US Dollar) = use as reference for my U.S. friends

$1 AUD = 29 THB (Thai Bhat) - @ 7-11 in Thailand a Cokes is 14 THB (.47 AUD)
$1 AUD = 17,500 VND (Viet Dong) - @ 7-11 in Vietnam a Coke is 6,000 VND (.35 AUD)
$1 AUD = 2.9 RM (Malaysian Ringget) - @ 7-11 in Malaysia a Coke is 1.8 RM (.63 AUD)

In Australia @ 7-11 a Coke costs $2 AUD

Going Home

I’m so happy to get home and see my furry children Spotty, and Mr “P”.  They have been looked after by our lovely house-sitters.  Only one more day kids and we’ll be home.  Can’t wait to get back to work with my friends and to show off all my new goodies

Hope everyone enjoyed my blog this holiday.  We’re planning our next trip already for a short 4-day weekend at the Great Barrier Reef before the Christmas Holidays. 

Update Alert for LaineyBird.com

You can keep up with the blog by going to http://www.google.com/alerts and filling in the alerts box as follows (use your own email address for “deliver to”: