riverECHO

Or perhaps this blog should be titled “twelve hours on a wooden bench in the Kuala Lumpur Airport.” BJ actually insisted that I post two separate blogs here, even though I am posting this and the Australia post at the same time, so that I can show two locations on our travel map. After a long jump up to the northern hemisphere, we are in Malaysia and plan to spend our twelve hour layover in the C wing of the satellite international terminal. By the way, Malaysia Air may be the best airline ever . . . they served mango and raspberry ice cream bars as a snack! There are only four wings in this terminal and we have already managed to get lost as there seems to be a very similar café and internet kiosk down each wing. We aren’t actually allowed into any carpeted gates until right before boarding so we have set up camp on a few wooden benches until morning. It’s currently 12am (4am in our New Zealand adjusted brains) and we are trying to train our bodies to stay up during the night as the upcoming work day will start at 9pm for us in Thailand and China. I’m not sure we’ll be getting too much done tonight though as the “free” internet is pretty spotty. We can connect to skype on our own computers but have to jump over to the standing only internet kiosk every once in a while if we want to check email. It’s not hot in the well air conditioned airport but you can definitely feel and smell the humidity and I’m excited to arrive in Phuket, Thailand tomorrow morning. Oh yeah . . . photos . . . these blog posts are probably much more interesting to read with some of BJ’s photos, but you’ll just have to wait. We have a bunch but have had some not-so-fast connections over the last week. They’ll be up for your viewing pleasure soon.