28th August- Kuala Lumpur

As a celebration of our last day in KL, we spent until mid-afternoon chasing after some computer memory for Matt's new toy. We were meant to be meeting a guy who Matt had contacted on the internet but, in real Malaysian style, the 12pm meeting time had been put back to 2pm and then 3pm. However,  the guy had arranged to meet us at the 'Digital Mall' and so we looked around for what Matt needed there. By the time we received another text asking if we could wait until 3.30pm, we were already on our way out of the door with what we needed.

The best thing about going there though was when I stopped to ask for directions from a work-man in the park. The man I ask didn't speak any English and pointed me (actually with fingers and not the creep finger-less knuckle-point so common here) towards  workmate who did. I started towards his mate but what I didn't realise, until the man grabbed my shoulder and I felt myself sink slightly into the ground, was that the work-man was actually concreting a new path through the park and had just got it to the nice, smooth, even part where it can be left to dry. I offered to sign my footprints but he didn't seem too impressed.
After sharing a 3-course lunch: a sweet tofu pudding from one street stall, a freshly cooked spring roll (I scolded my mouth) from another, and some economy rice with veg from a third one, we considered going to the Butterfly Park. I'd lost my oomph by this point though so we went back to Tim's so Matt could diddle with his new RAM.

In the evening we went out for our farewell meal with Tim, Shirin and Carl. It was our last chance to try new Malaysian food so they took us for Soto - a noodle soup with a kind of corned-beef and potato burger in it. It was actually really nice and made me feel like I was being more adventurous with food. However, compared to our Laos friend Katie, who posted on Facebook that she had eaten cow's brain and pig's trotter for dinner, it was nothing.

Tim fancied a meaty dessert of satay but the restaurant was next to Lake Tittiwangsa (how many jokes are in that name?!) and so we went a walk around there first. We spent a good deal of time playing boys-against-girls 'Alphabet body-shapes' (Hey Zeena, remember Chillingham castle?) against the backdrop of the Petronas towers. Hopefully Matt will include some pictures of that and then you can try and guess what letter we're making.

  

The down-side of so much silliness was that we were too late for satay dessert and no one knew a good place to get fried ice-cream so we all just went home to bed.