Sushi King and Apartment Hunting Day 3

Last night we had a great dinner with our friends who had stopped over in KL for several nights on their way to Bali. Because we had not yet taken public transport in the day we decided to go over to their hotel via taxi. Just as we were ready to get into the cab we saw and experienced the first torrential downpour since our arrival.

It was quite amazing, as it really looked like a cyclone was attacking the city with the palm trees bending in the wind, and the rain coming down so hard that it was even impossible to imagine being out in it. Our taxi driver waited for an opportune to go out to his car and pulled in so we wouldn't get caught in the rain. The drive was amazingly slow due to the both the weather and the fact that Ramadan is still in full swing. Everyone tries to return home before the fast ends, and thus you have many traffic jams. To add to that it was also a public holiday yesterday and everyone and his grandmother were in the center. The roads were also partially flooded causing people to have to drive more slowly also. By the time we arrived at our friends' hotel the rain had stopped, the water had magically disappeared - think humidity in the air and the heat level rising...

We had decided to walk to a restaurant, and noticed Sushi King on a corner. It was quite empty for Ramadan, and we decided it could be a very good choice. The boys especially liked the fact that the sushi comes around on a conveyor belt! Namejs sat right next to the conveyor and began to grab everything and anything that we all wanted. It was such a funny experience, because first of all Namejs was so happy to have such a great chance to choose his food in this way, and secondly he became obsessed with stacking the plates that we got. We started with one pile, and then the boys decided that since this is KL we needed to two stacks to represent the Petronas towers. Somehow by the end of the evening we had polished off 33 plates of sushi - the majority of the food from those plates going into the boys' tummies. Below you can see a picture of the pride in their effort. They believed we deserved some kind of an award for the amount eaten. :-) The waiter and cashier were quite shocked to see the amount of food we had wolfed down. Being Latvian it is not such a huge surprise, but I think it had more to do with the excitement of the experience than the hunger level.



Today we all went to school and had a bit of a strange day. Insurance information, cultural information about Malaysians and Indians, and then a trip to the bank to get our ATM cards. The boys spent most of the day swimming in the school pool and playing with the other little kids.

We had lunch at the school's boarding facilities, and then we went back to the apartment complex. The agent we had organized had more keys this time, but didn't bring the keys for the apartments we had already seen. Sigh, we just don't understand what these agents are not grasping. We have told them all that we need to move into an apartment by the end of next week. They are just not getting the time sensitivity issue. But that being said I have decided to rent an apartment that is presently being rented by one of the school's teachers who is moving to KL. The apartment is quite light with more windows than the others, and has a fantastic view of the golf course. I will still have to negotiate the furniture, but I think that it is all doable.

Saturday I will go to look at the car that the car guy has found for me. Hopefully it will be a good deal and I will be able to cross that off my list too!

Tomorrow is an early start for our MAC training. I may go and look at the apartment again. However, we also have a trip to see Silverleaf monkeys tomorrow, and I don't plan on missing that either. The boys will stay on their own in the hotel as a first trial run to being left alone with access to a pool. So far they have been fantastic with the little kids who are with us every day, and seem to have left a good impression with the adults around them. I know that it is not easy for them to be dragged around all day, but they are being troopers.