We headed to the airport for our flight to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Even though it was only a two hour flight, it was difficult with Brandon. He was tired and cranky, but he wasn't ready to sleep. He crashed at the KL airport just after we went through customs.
We booked a hotel right next to the airport. What we didn't know was that there are two KL airports. We landed at LCCS airport, not the KLIA airport. You could really tell that we were at the Low Cost Carrier Service airport, and not the large KL International Airport.
We had a little trouble figuring out the taxi cabs at the airport. We had to buy a ticket in the airport for the cab. We couldn't just go out and hail a cab. Also, we realized that we weren't in cheap Cambodia anymore. It was about 50 ringgits to go from the airport to the hotel. That's about U.S. $16. No more $2 or $3 tuk tuk rides...
After we checked into our hotel, we took a shuttle over to KLIA. We planned to take a train from there to the city, but our shuttle driver suggested we share a cab with two other hotel guests. He said that the train would cost us about 70 ringgits for two people and a cab would be 150 ringgits, divided two ways. The plus to the cab was that we could get dropped off right at the Petronas Towers. The train was a little more complicated once you got into the city.
We shared the cab for the hour ride into the city. Quite a ways from the hotel!
When we arrived at the Petronas Towers, we remarked how much it was like Singapore. Another mall! Although, KL didn't seem quite as clean as SG.
This is a view looking up at the top of the tower from the interior of the building.
Lots of levels of shops!
We walked to the sky bridge with plans to go up for observation. We were shocked to find out that tickets were gone for the day. I believe it is free to go up, but there are only 1,000 tickets given out each day. We were told to come back another day before 8 am in the morning. That wouldn't work!
We were so bummed out. :( We walked around outside for a bit.
A little bit later, Steven had the brilliant idea of finding another building in the city that had an observation deck.
We took a cab to the KL Tower. Unfortunately, it wasn't free. However, we were thrilled to get some great views of KL. We only had 20 hours in KL, and we wanted to make the most of it.
They called the Petronas Towers the "twin towers". From above, I noticed lots of twin buildings below.
The Batu Caves, a limestone hill which is a series of caves and cave temples. A sacred place for the Hindus in Malaysia.
The amazing Petronas Towers.
After our visit at the top of the KL Tower, we visited a small animal center. Birds, snakes, monkeys, rabbits, iguanas, and more. Brandon now loves to say "snake". Also, when he saw the baby bunnies he said, "Mouse."
Brandon thought it was pretty cool that Daddy got to hold the birds.
The KL Tower. Reminded us of the Space Needle in Seattle.
Daddy posed in front of the Petronas Towers for some perspective.
On the hour cab ride back to the hotel, Brandon crashed. It was about 6 pm, and he was out for the night. Kind of nice for us. We were exhauted too. Great traveling, but we really crammed a lot in during these four days.
Even though we had a suite, our hotel in KL (Concorde Inn) wasn't nearly as nice as our hotel in Cambodia. We are getting spoiled by luxurious resorts! It really didn't matter though as we were up and out of the hotel very early in the morning again. (FYI - I wouldn't recommend the hotel.) It was only a one hour flight from KL to SG. Brandon slept for most of the flight. Nice for us to have a rest too.
We arrived back in SG before 9 am on Monday morning.
What an adventure! Our trip felt much longer than four days!
It did feel great to be home though. We are looking forward to getting Brandon's sleeping routine back. For the past few nights, he's been sleeping part of the night in our bed. Really hard on all of us as Brandon has trouble getting comfortable and sleeping with us. He would sleep on his own for the first part of the nights, but then the second halves of the nights were restless for all. I'm sure some of it was due to Brandon being sick and off-schedule even before we left SG. Definitely worth it though!!!
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