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Photos from Asia #2: KLCC

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is an incredibly modern city that bustles all day (and probably all night, though we always stayed in). People are always coming and going somewhere with tourists nearly always heading to the KLCC. It was the one place I definitely wanted to see--home of what was just a decade ago the tallest buildings in the world, the Petronas Towers.

Behind the towers, as part of the KLCC, is an enormous children's playground. Unfortunately, it's patrolled by police officers who don't allow big kids like Audrey play on it. We wandered around and managed to pretend to play just for a picture. It was a bit odd for Audrey to be chased off the play structure and additionally strange since there wasn't another kid anywhere on the sprawling playground.

The Red Palms are all around the property and are just super pretty with their colorful trunks.

Unscripted and sweet. They were discussing the cotton candy choices at a candy shop. I can't remember if this was in KLCC Suria or the Pavillion shopping center.

Kuala Lumpur has definitely lost its 'developing world' look and could easily be mistaken for Los Angeles, except for the Islamic holiday sales and Malay-language signage. This is, for sure, at the Pavillion, a large shopping center with an impressive food court on the very bottom floor.

More than a quarter-mile tall, the Petronas Towers were pretty spectacular.

Photos from Asia #1

So, there are a ton of photos that I didn't get to share due to a number of Internet/computer/camera problems, but now that we're back home...here they come.

The first few come from our stay at the Tokyo airport. We'd originally planned to take the train into the city, but when we got up there to purchase tickets we realized that it was going to cost us nearly 200USD to get into/out of Tokyo. Since that was more money than I had (I was already in the hole!), we stuck around the airport and visited the numerous gift shops. These were some of the fun things we found...

Multi flavored Kit-Kat bars:


Delicious Mochi: Chocolate, Caramel Pudding, Red Sweet Potato and Black Soybean Flour were just some of the available flavors.


Anything and everything in Green Tea flavor.


Strawberry Oreo bar


Plastic coated Japanese food (those are the prices, with 90yen=1USD)


And in case you wanted to look like you'd traveled further, you could buy Florida macadamia nuts, Las Vegas chocolate chip cookies, The Great America truffles or Mexican cashew cookies. Weird.