Sunday at Genting Highlands

Genting Highlands is in the mountains about an hour from Kuala Lumpur (KL). At 6,000+ feet above sea level you are literally in the clouds. It's a nice break from the much hotter temperatures around KL. Genting has a hotel with 6,000+ rooms, casino (which Van couldn't go in because he had shorts on), and indoor and outdoor amusement parks. There is a cable car that will take you the last 4,000 feet or so to the resort, but it was closed for maintenance, so we drove all the way to the top. It wasn't too disappointing because the clouds pretty much socked everything in so there wouldn't have been too much to see besides white out conditions on the way up. We had a great day. Yes, we wished the kids were with us, but we still managed "not" to act our age most of the day! It was nice to let loose!

This is one of the hotels. You can see it from way down below on the main highway when it's clear. You do a double take the first time you see it because it's hard to believe there are buildings on top of a mountain.

My sister, Nancy, whose husband restores old aircraft, asked me to keep my eyes peeled in the jungle for planes they could restore. Hey, I found one. I don't know what kind it is, but it looks like you could salvage it. That means you'll have to come get it. I know right where it is, too! It's in Dinosaur Land at Genting Highlands.
There was an amazingly friendly T-Rex in the jungle near the plane. He was so sweet to allow Van to do his "hand cam" and take our picture. Van is having more fun with than any grown man should with his hand cam. I think Laine addicted him to it when she was here visiting. Every time I turn around he's got the camera on us!
See what I mean? We paid extra Ringetts (Malaysian currency) to don our 3-D glasses and go in the Haunted Werewolf Alley at the indoor park. We were with a Saudi Arabian woman in a burka (the black outfits that cover everything but their eyes) and her husband. We laughed and laughed at them. She was terrified and kept hiding behind Van and I and her husband. There was a werewolf that came out of one of the doors and grabbed her. She screamed and screamed and then we all laughed and laughed. It's things like this that teach us we are really not so different after all. It was kind of comical to see Van try to give him a "high-five" when we exited. I don't think her husband was use to that. We laughed about that, too. It was such fun!

Here's Van on one of the roller coasters. I always make him go first to tell me if there are any "tummy drops" which I can't handle well (just ask Laine). Unfortunately, this one had several. He'll just have to wait until the kids come to visit so he'll have someone to ride with.
How about a big bunch of koi? Look at their greedy little sucker mouths opening up for food. They fed them fish food pellets (that you could buy for 3 Ringett) and they were huge! This was on the water boat ride through Dinosaur Land.
We waited in line for about 30 minutes to ride the go carts. The track was underneath the roller coaster. You had to wear closed toe shoes, so they had a rack of shoes and you got to pick some that fit. Van even found some monsters! I must say it was really "yucky" putting my bare feet into a wet pair of shoes, but I managed. Here's Van with the hand cam. Funny, he was going so fast he needed his eye glasses and his helmet visor!
This is me passing Van. I was the first one out of the gate and pretty much got the whole course to myself, until I had to do some passing after I started lapping people. You could do the whole course with your foot to the floor! It was great fun!

All and all, it was a great day to get out and have some fun. We spent most of the day on Saturday getting Van's expense reports entered into his company's online travel accounting system. He has been having trouble logging in, but it was fixed late last week. It was good to get them done finally!