Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Well our time is now up in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and though it wasn't my favorite place in the world at first, I really grew to enjoy the city.

We were so thankful when we discovered that our hostel was actually a decent living space! The Hotel Paradiso hostel is located right in the middle of the Bukit Bintang area of KL- and it is awesome. We were put up in room all together, with two bunk beds. El Paradiso, as I like to refer to it, is a cool place where lots of young backpackers from Europe, Australia and the US come to stay, and we met a few fun characters while watching "football" in the common areas.

We toured the city, tried new foods, ate a delicious dinner across the street from the Petronas twin towers, and saw a musical called Merchants of Bollywood in the Istana Budaya- the national theater of Malaysia. We even saw the first lady at the show! The music in the show was composed by AR Rahman- the same guy who composed the music for Slumdog Millionaire! The show was full of awesome music, great dancing, and tremendous costumes that must have been changed at least 2o times during the performance.

Carissa's birthday fell in this leg of the trip- she is 20! Ah we are getting so old! (haha)

Traveling is great and we are looking forward to Thailand, though we truly are backpacking around southeast Asia and at times it gets really tough and tiring. But our little family is managing to take care of each other and continuing to have a blast on this amazing adventure!