bangkok, thailand

when last you left our adventures, we had just arrived in luala lumpur. but i hadn't told you about out last day in singapore.
we visited the national museum, which cost us S$10, and they had lockers where we could keep our bags at no charge. the history museum inside had listening guids, and was a phenomenal experience. it took us about 2 hours to get through the whole thing. the rest of the museum was set into small sections, fashion, entertainment, food, and photography.
next was the peranakan museum, to learn about the peranakan, which are (i think,) malay mixed with various other peoples who had come to singapore in the distant past. they had a wonderful exhibit on the ramayana.
we saw st. andrew's cathedral, and then went to the train station. while we were waiting for the train to malaysia, a very nice, older, slightly weird man started talking to me, letting me know that we should all take care of the planet by picking up after ourselves and others, and that allah watches over me, even though i don't pray to him.
after arriving in kuala lumpur, we got checked into our guest house which was great, and we did laundry as soon as possible. now, when i say laundry, i do not mean we put it in a washing machine and dryer. i mean we took it into the bathroom and hand washed it in the shower after we cleaned up ourselves, wrung it out, and then hung it up to dry on the three lines we made to go across what little room we had available to string it up. thankfully, my husband pakced me a good length of 550 cord, so we could have 3 lines, instead of two. (thank you honey, the cord did come in handy.) we had almost no spare room, so we had beds on one side, and clothes right up next to them. it looked like a chinese laundry. it kinda rocked.
we spent most of that day doing nothing. but later in the evening, we went to the petronas towers that the city is famous for. most of the next day was spent gettingback to the main train station on fantastically delayed trains.　 we finally got to the station, and waited for several hours for our own train. we finally boarded, and went on our way to hat yai, thailand. customs was easy and we had several more hours in hat yai before the train up to bangkok. both the trains were overnight trains, and at least we had sleeper cars.
when we finally got to bangkok, we found our hostel, and took the necessarily long shower. we have laundry facilites here (something lulu and i are very excited about), and there's a rooftop garden and a covered porch. the view is wonderful. and now, my dear friends, i'm off to dinner. i'll write more later.