First day in KL!

Thursday 9 October, 2008

Hello whoever is reading this as you know I am Alex and I perhaps just had the best day of my life. This was my first day in KL (Kuala Lumpur), the capital of Malaysia. Well I best be getting started. Firstly my mother and I decided to visit the bird park. We got lost so it took us about an hour to get there. On the way we saw a lake with a huge jet fountain in the middle. Soon after we came across an old building called a mosque. Nothing was there so we travelled along only to find about a family of about 15 wild monkeys. They were eating bananas people were giving them. There were babies and elders and lots of protective mothers. We stayed there for about 20 minutes like we were stuck to the ground.

We yet again came across another interesting thing. A replica of stonehenge. Mum was really excited. Finally we came across a Malaysian Police Museum. There were boats and tanks and armored cars. We didn’t have to wait long before we came across a cafeteria. We ordered two things called sky waters, served to us in a plastic bag with an elastic band.

We had to ask several people to find out where the entrance to the bird park was. Every person sent us in a different way until we finally got there. It was so great! There were birds of all shapes, sizes and colors. I held a talking parrot, a cockatoo, a budgie, about 20 parrots and a toucan. I fed emus and ostriches and as you know, parrots. I had about 5 seeds in my hand and they all came along. I was so excited. Then we saw some hawks, eagles and flamingos but by that time we were both tired and itchy and took a ‘teksi’ home.

We were staying at the most luxurious hotel in all of town, ‘Le Meridien’. They had a huge pool so I forced mum on the water slide. After the quick dip mum decided to go to the central markets. Oh it was so fun believe it or not. We saw this shop called the cute fish spa, so of coarse we went in. In there we both bought ourselves ten minutes of hundreds of fish eating our feet. The sign said they ate the dead cells on it. It was so ticklish I couldn’t stop laughing. Mum said her feet hurt after that.

Well we came back to the hotel again for a little while, then wanted to get something to eat. So we basically crossed the road to the food court. Suddenly I wasn’t so hungry. I had Malaysian KFC which still tasted awful. Nearly everything in the food court had shrimp paste on it, including my meal.

So then we headed to the hotel once again and here I am now writing this.