Flying Fox

Day 14: It's a rainy Monday morning in KL, and we slept late and ordered room service to recover from the club nights and our weekend in Malaysia's play land.

It started to clear and we made our out of town about a half hour by train and taxi to a very fun resort and water park called Sunway Lagoon. Our friend Winnie owns and operates 4 gift shops there, and the resort is extremely popular amongst people from all over Asia and the Middle East. Winnie gave us an orientation to the park, which boasts a petting zoo, a water park, an extreme park and a scary park. We changed into our suits and headed over the water slides and the giant pool, where we watched all of the families thoroughly enjoying themselves. We were pleased to see, too, the young Muslim girls frolicking in the pool with their fully-waterproof head scarves and wet suits.

Over the pool is one of the extreme park rides called the Flying Fox. Everyone few minutes an air horn would sound, and some smiling child or adult would come flying over the pool on a wire strapped into a harness. Sue, being afraid of heights, but committed to experiencing new adventures on this trip looked at Sean and said, "I think I can do that." Seanie said, "Let's do it." So we dried off and made our way up about 4 stories of stairs to the top of the ride. Sue started to panic a bit at the height, but was determined to go for it. She wanted to go first, but they didn't have any harnesses that would go around her womanly hips and thighs; she had to wait for the harness to come back up from the big Arab man who went a couple turns before her. ;) Seanie went first, and as soon as he took off, a calm came over Sue - she was ready. Finally it was her turn, and she soared over the trees and the pool with a great big smile on her face, giving Sean the "I did it!" punch in the air, once she landed. We had a celebratory drink at the bottom, and then went off to meet Winnie and do some shopping in her gift shop.

Winnie couldn't join us for dinner that night - her mom was visiting her and her 6 month old twin girls - Debbie and Deborah. So we met Jeffrey at the mall at Sunway - even bigger than the last few, and it boasts a giant Sphinx and pyramid out front. We shopped some more :) and to Jeffrey's delight, took in a Japanese buffet for dinner - it was gigantic! Then, sadly, Jeffrey had to run to meet his brother because his 100-year old grandpa had gone into the hospital. We said so long to Jeffrey (but not goodbye because we'll be seeing him next week in Bangkok, where he will be on business!), and hope his grandpa and family are well.

Thank you to Jeffrey and Winnie for being the most wonderful hosts and dear friends to us during our stay in Malaysia. We intend to return the favor on your trip to NYC next year!!! And we'll do our own version of the Genting Highlands in Atlantic City - promise! xoxo

Malaysian phrase of the day:
Sama sama - You are welcome.

On to the beach at Ko Tao, Thailand.