Day 30, 31 & 32

We arrived at KL Airport and started our one hour drive to city centre where the Concorde Hotel is located.  Jeff Colbert, someone who I knew in Jr High School, kindly offered to arrange for us to stay there.  He indicated he could get us a corporate rate at a fantastic hotel.  On our drive to KL we noticed all the beautiful palm tree fields.  This, as it turned out, was the only thing of beauty we noticed in Malaysia.  In fact, it was so bad in KL, we cut our Malaysia trip short after only 2 days and booked a flight to Krabi.  The people of KL are not what I would describe as a friendly bunch.  They are rude – as we discovered in the hotel on numerous occasions where we would be speaking to staff and someone would interrupt us in mid conversation. 

They are pushy – we visited the mall by the towers and were left waiting for an elevator after being first in line.  How, did we go from first to last?? Lets just say that the polite Canadians learned being polite in Malaysia gets you no where – don’t wait for the people to get off the elevator otherwise you won’t get on.

After finally reaching our destination at the food court via elevator our experience didn’t get much better. Sydney decided this was a perfect time not to listen and wouldn’t eat anything.  Sean knocked over a few food and drink items on the table with a good stiff right punch.  Tara and I didn’t fare much better as we continued our streak of dropping things (we are starting to feel we are ‘off’ somehow and that someone somewhere is trying to tell us something). This was one of the first times Tara and I felt we were on display for everyone to see how poorly North Americans raise their children.  We didn’t disappoint. 

The next day we took the monorail – a truly Tylenol time.  On the loud (LOUD) speakers inside the cab a constant message, in two languages, was read aloud: Watch the doors, watch your belongings, next stop, beep, beep, f****** beep.  All this in the loudest most obnoxious recorded statement man has ever heard. Get me the **** off this thing...and GOODBYE KL...