On Friday we took the rental car out, albeit a little later than expected, and headed for Melaka. It was great to see the city through another set of eyes. Joe is a real history buff and his take on the various cultural successions was fun. We walked all the usual places, Chinatown, St. Paul Hill and the old town. We stopped for lunch a the Geographer Cafe and headed back to Subang Jaya about 5:00.We arrived back just in time for our reservation at a new, and our personal favourite, Tomoe, a Japanese restaurant. After dinner we returned to the condo and Joe and Bill couldn't handle it so we went to bed. Carolyn and Kim stayed up to 2:30 again.
Saturday we started late again. We woke up to a swim in our pool and a leisurely breakfast. We traveled on to Putra Jaya where we tried to duplicate the tour that colleague Moaz took us on in August. Unfortunately, we got lost repeatedly and ended up just going where the whim led us. We saw many of the usual places. When we got to Petaling Street in Chinatown it turns out Joe is an excellent haggler; he ended up getting three fake Rolex watched for about a third of the price they were originally asking for just one. I'm glad he was on our side. We hopped the LRT and rode to KLCC; we watched the sunset as it highlighted the twin towers in the night time lights. We went over to the shopping mall under the towers for dinner in a Vietnamese restaurant. back home and this time everyone went to bed fairly early (midnight).Sunday started much as did Saturday. We headed out with a stop at one of local mega malls. Joe couldn't believe that we actually have a hockey rink in the mall; he several pictures of the Zamboni cleaning and flooding. Then we went to Bukit Bintang (a tourist upscale shopping area) for a lunch and tour. Afterwards we drove out to the airport to see them off. It was a whirlwind tour but sooooo great to see them!
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