Madness and Mayhem in Malaysia

Arriving into Malaysia was quite chilled until James didn't get his backpack on quick enough when getting off the express train from the airport to KL Sentral. The doors ended up closing on us and started off to the next station!!! I freaked as only 5 minutes earlier he had taken the mick out of me for getting ready too quickly. We didn't have a clue where we were headed and I panicked as did James. We were safe, the train only turned round and we were able to get off! Passengers waiting to get on were very puzzled to see us get off an empty train. Hopefuly this will teach Mr Aveling to prepare himself earlier and not rib me about it!

We decided to head for the Taman Negara jungle so off we went in search for trekking, white water raffting and a bit of general knowledge about the area for a tour guide. We gained nothing of the above. We did however manage a soaking wet 3 hour ride up the river which was much more fun than it sounds and a night jungle walk where we saw tons of wildlife. You can only imagine how excited we both were and what a pair of kids we turned into. The funnest thing on the walk was the sleeping birds. James woke one up by shining his touch to close in it's face and I yelled out "He woke it up! That was mean!" The guide wasn't to pleased. We also saw a red posions spider that was hairy (eeww!) and glowing mushrooms!

The accomodations was no where near as good as the activity therefore we got ourselves out of the jungle double quick. We headed back to KL the next day. And that is where we are now. The weather is pretty misserable but we trekked around town today sightseeing which was cool. It's not the nicest city people wise but I can't get over their shopping centres. One of them has a theme park in it wher ethe roller coaster runs around one of the floors! Madness!

We had an experience on the monorail this evening where by it was jammed, just like the tube. One women got on behind james and decided to hold on to his arm. James couldn't stop laughing as she kept gripping then realising what she was holding on to so letting go then gripping. He also had a little boy clinging to his shorts. He was so pleased he had a belt on. He looked funny being so tall, blond and fair in a sea of small dark haired people all clinging to him. All we could do was laugh!!!

We fly to Phuket tomorrow to do our PADI cert if we can. I am excited but quite nervous.