Sam & Pete Hit the road

Hey guys - sorry this post will be quite disjointed and a bit rushed – we will post again soon when we return from…. actually we have quite a few days ahead of us that will be disconnected from the internet world. We will post and photo accessorize asap. Come back and scroll down again some other time cause then it will be pretty.

- Sam

Singapore Botanical Gardens – were real prreeety – wandered and chilled and layed under trees for a while. more info soon.

- Sam n Pete

Tour - We met our tour group in Singapore 3 days ago. We have done preety well as far as tour groups go. We like everyone in our group… mostly, well actually its only really our tour leader who we are a bit “meh” about – she makes me look like a quiet little retireing sheep. MAJOR DRAMA QUEEN :) there is us and 2 other couples (one much older and one our age) and then like 6 other single young people…all girls (poor pete ) We spent one night in Singapore with them. We wandered the markets in China town and it was actually really nice because we felt all knowledgable and homey… a week can be a very long time apparently – and in the week prior we had made ourselves muchly at home here. We didnt realise HOW much so until we saw the looks of overwhelm and fear in the eyes of all the noobs that had just gotten off the plane from England, Norway and Australia – and landed straight into the tour. It was  a nice feeling for the night – and then we left…. and were noobs again ourselves.

- Sam

The bus from singapore to melaca left early and took about 5 hrs. First time for both of us driving across the border into a new country :) kinda cool. Melacca’s a nice place, very historical and we had a great tour provided by one of the local trishaw riders “Kamal”. He tooks us round to a few of the local temples and finished up down at the docks talking about the Portugese, Dutch and British battles for the great shipping port providing spice trading to the world. He had a bunch of the local plants that we squished up and smelt – Sam was great at picking the various herbs and spices. We found a great art gallery/tshirt shop called the Orangutang House and picked up some nice shirts and had a chat to the artist himself , check out their website..

- Pete

i loved malacca – dunno why – just a good vibe.  Bought awesome t-shirts too (but wont be returning yours, sorry Brie ) Ben H – we thought of u while we were in the Orang Utan House. Very you.

-Sam

So we are in Kuala Lumpar at the moment. We had a tour of the city this morning – did all the touristy things aparently – towers over looking the city, war memorials – and those sorts of things. We visited the National Mosque – and I had to robe up head to toe have some photos.

- Sam

We’re finishing up our stay in Kuala Lumpur. We spent last night at a Reggae bar (come America Pop/Rock at midnight)  – it turned out to be a great night partying with the tour group and the 6RM (AUD2.22) Mixers for girls all night was popular with our mostly female bunch..  especially our leader who piked at about 11 . We caught up with Jane and Sandy tonight, had dinner with Jane’s family in the Ex-Pat center of KL – the Western meals were appreciated as we’re heading off to Kuala Kangsar tomorrow to stay in a Bungalo for a few days before going to Penang.

- Pete

Bangkok - Update about Bangkok – we have decided to stay in Bangkok for our original bookings… so at the moment home on the 26th Jan.

Thank you – to all of you for reading and commenting our blog!!! We really appreciate it and it gives us smiles and warm fuzzies to know that you are out there…. Really. Thank you so much. As you all know we are mega computer geeks and so this really is our connection to home…. and normality.

- Sam n Pete