Kuala Lumpur: Days 1&2

Ryan's folks are here for a visit right now and so we decided that we would use our Visa renewal trip out of the country while they were here so that we could experience something new together. We took off for four days to Malaysia to see the big city of Kuala Lumpur.
Our hotel was situated right by the monorail and pretty much in the center of the city activities so it was incrediably easy to get around and find things to do. The first thing I noticed was the great speeds on the highway! It felt so amazing to go 120km/hour again on an open road. Then we were upgraded for free from our hotel room to suites because of an overbooking... I just knew it was going to be a great little holiday!

We spent the first days looking around at a couple of the malls, shops and some of the city sites. Everyone was very friendly and offering us help and smiles, especially to Brayden and Sydney ;) We walked downtown around the Kuala Lumpur City Center and met a Buddhist who gave us what we thought were free gifts but ended up coming at the price of a generous donation to something. We had no idea, since it was in symbols and he seemed to know very little english.
We stopped to check out a temple and got caught in this great rain storm. We had to run about 2 minutes in the rain to make it to the closest monorail stop and we were all completely soaking wet but it was such a great time running for our lives through this massive down pour! The kids didn't seem to mind it either which made it even more enjoyable! It was a beautiful Hindhu Temple with these impressive statues and engravings throughout:

While we were downtown in the City Center we decided to check out the Aquarium which is located behind the Petronas Towers (the 2nd tallest twin towers in the world). It was really great, I think the best feature was this underwater tunnel you went through with all these fish, sharks and stingrays swimming around you. There was one stingray that would go over your head and the entire tunnel would get dark, it was so huge.

Kuala Lumpur is home to the 2nd largest twin tower buildings in the world so of course we had to make our way downtown to check out them out in person. Unfortunately it was Monday and so we couldn't go inside the buildings but we decided that we would be back later in the week to check it out further. We ate a great lunch at the Hard Rock Cafe which was so familiar and wonderful. The kids got the enormous hotdogs which to my disbelief they both finished!