Week 7: 29 Jan to 4 Feb

Sorry this post is a little late because we have been away for an extra long weekend, due to Prophet Muhammad’s Birthday which was on the weekend, but the public holiday was Monday, and Thaipusam on Tuesday. One of the great things about living in a culturally diverse place is all the holidays!

Another exciting week in KL.

On Sunday, we did the tourist thing around KL, we caught the hop-on bus around the city and went to the Bird Park.

The kids started school on Monday and caught the bus. We met two other Australian girls who live here and also catch the bus.

Tuesday night we had drinks by the pool, while Lachlan and Danae swam and played with some new friends (I think Lachlan has a couple of admirers ;)

Steve had the day off on Wednesday for Federal Territories Day, but the children go to school in a different state so they had school. So we took full advantage and went to Bangsar, a trendy suburb particularly popular with expats here. There are quite a few good cafes and restaurants here. We had breakfast at Plan b and wandered around some of the shops, but were too full to have lunch. We came home and had lunch at the café out the front of our building (Delicious) and shared a salad and macarons.

Thursday we got ASTRO and internet connected!! Astro is the pay tv, here you have a choice between Astro or nothing. Lachlan and Danae were very excited to watch kids tv again. Thursday night was very quiet as everyone went off and did their own thing.

Friday evening was again, drinks and pizza by the pool. 

Bird Park, getting ready for school, Bangsar, Lachlan & Danae @ the Bird Park, lunch @ Delicious

 Then Saturday we drove to Singapore. It took us 5 hours to get there with a lunch stop and we got a bit lost in Singapore trying to find the bridge to Sentosa. We stayed on Sentosa island at the Movenpick Hotel. It was very nice. We spent the rest of Saturday looking around Sentosa and going on a few of the attractions. More of our Singapore trip to follow next week…

Saturday afternoon and evening at Sentosa

 Now that I have proper internet connection, here is a video of a lion dance we saw last week for Chinese New Year.