May 14th...13th!
Today we really impressed ourselves. We woke early, showered, packed everything up, arranged for an airport transfer, and then checked out of our room. We were thrilled that they only charged us for 4 nights rather than 5. We were eating breakfast when we questioned how they would have miscalculated the number of nights we stayed with them. Just 15 minutes before we were meant to be picked up, we thought that maybe we should double check today’s date. The two of us ran in opposite directions, one finding out what the heck day it was and the other to double check our flight date online. Like 2 fools (or maybe just two travelers who had become oblivious to the time/day/date) we found that it was only Wednesday, May 13th. We marched back to the front desk, reclaimed our room key, and canceled our airport transportation. No harm done other than that we were both ready to move on, we had made an extra effort to spend all our final Baht the day prior, and now we had an extra day to kill. I guess today was simply a dress rehearsal and by tomorrow we will be more than ready to go…fools. Just one night in Kuala Lumpur, hopefully some fresh haircuts while we’re there, and then Brisbane, Australia, May 16th. We so look forward to starting our next adventures.
After a little of a “misunderstanding/swindle-the-tourist situation” transferring in the city from the KL Airport, we checked back into our new found “second home” in Malaysia. Tropical Guesthouse is located in the Golden Triangle and therefore centrally located in the heart of the city. We found ourselves back in the same room we had stayed a couple months prior when we passed through on our way to Cambodia. We were thrilled to see the same welcoming and cheery hostess, Jennifer. She is a wild Chinese Lady who loves life and loves her youth. She parties hard and loves entertaining foreigners who bunker down in her Tropical Guest House for a night or two or more. Anyway, it was her Birthday the following day and as to be expected there were festivities to be had. We really had planned on heading to bed early in order to get a jump on the day the following morning, seeing some of the city and getting our precious haircuts. Well our simple stop-over turned into one of the most wild nights. The night rolled on into the early hours of the morning as we sat curbside sipping from a grab bag of drinks including some paralyzing Chinese Wine (worst thing we’ve ever tried and apparently if you drink too much you bleed from the nose and eyes…excellent…). This was the most diverse and multicultural social settings we’ve found ourselves in. Along the sidewalk out front of our guesthouse, about a dozen men and women of all ages sat happily around the table. The group was made up of people from Indonesia, Nepal, Iran, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Canada, Finland and maybe others. It was a great night and needless to say the only thing we managed to accomplish the following day was plunk ourselves into a couple salon chairs by the middle of the afternoon. Sidenote: 2 more celebrity treatment haircuts at Thomas and Guys, Kuala Lumpur.
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