Hello friends! We have landed in Kuala Lumpur and spent a few days getting to know the city. Some highlights were: getting the keys to our new home and see the girls enthusiastically choose their rooms, buying a ukulele for a very excited daughter, and enjoy the nature, even though the nature experience turned out to be a little more intense than planned…
Our hotel is next to Kuala Lumpur City Center, or KLCC, and Center Park with gorgeous views to the Petronas Twin Towers. It’s wonderful to go for walks in the park! Today I was praising the nature as my husband and I strolled under the trees, little did I know I was about to have a near-nature experience!
I was walking peacefully, minding my own business, when suddenly I felt something wet raining down on me. I looked up, telling my husband what happened. “It’s from the tree,” he stated. But it had not been raining, so I kept peering up into the branches, wondering about this strange tree that was dripping water in a single spurt. And then I saw something moving on the branch. A bird? A cat? No-even bigger with gray fur and a teddy-bear face. Some sort of malay jungle raccoon! That had been peeing on me! My goodness, I was thankful that our hotel was just steps away, and more grateful than ever for a shower and soap and clean water! I think I washed my hair three times today! My girls laughed so hard when I told them what happened!
Hope you’re having beautiful days, and by the way, since we are quite busy on our end these days and I don’t have time to update the blog as often as I would like to, I thought I’d mention that you are always welcome to check out Instagram for more updates on our move to Kuala Lumpur.
With Love,
Lene
Haha (plötsligt minns jag en dag i Venedig då en duva gjorde nr 2 på mig), men skönt att ni hade nära till hotellet. Låter som om ni kommer att stormtrivas. Härligt.
He he, dessa djur utan respekt för privata gränser! Men det är såå fint här och det känns jätteroligt att utforska staden och lära sig mer om landet.
Önskar er en härlig tid i KL och lycka till med allt spännande som är på gång med ditt författarskap.
Tack! Mycket spännande på gång nu…
Mindre kul det där under trädet ;(
Grönt är skönt för själ o öga.
Förstår att det är mycket nu, men ett steg i taget gör att man kommer i mål så småningom utan att all ork tar slut.
Gott nytt…
Och jag som gick där och njöt så väldigt! Heelt underbart med en grön park mitt i city. Fast sådana nära-naturen äventyr som häromdagen klarar jag mig utan… Gott nytt på er också!
Being peed on – now that’s an exotic gesture of welcome! One that you could probably have done without, haha…
I love my ukulele! Hope your daughter loves it too. And hope you guys are making a smooth transition into your new environment. I bet you’ll get lots of writing inspiration! 🙂
Exactly what I was thinking, that was some welcome I got in KL, ha ha!
Wow, you also play the ukulele, I have to say, this is an instrument I am happy to get to listen to closer, I just love to hear her play it.
Soon we will have to get out of travel habits, jet lag etc, and start to get into everyday rhythm, and I can’t wait to move into our new home, hope the container with our stuff will arrive soon…
I envy you, pee-incident and all. (The monkeys in Costa Rica do that too). How’s the food? Looking forward to seeing some exotic sights through you.
The food is amazing! I’ve had mostly chinese and western food so far, prepared by the wonderful chefs at the hotel. Love the chicken in oyster sauce! Many chinese people here in Malaysia, and lots of rice and seafood. I look forward to get to know the Malay cuisine better, and to compare it to the Indonesian.
LOL!!! That was quite the experience. But hey! I’m sure that brings good luck 😉
Yay, good luck sounds good to me 🙂 LOL!