Malaysia - Day 1

We made it to Malaysia! It took us 3 flights and 26 hours to get here, but we made it. Brayden was a champ on the flights and slept a lot of the longest, 13 hour, flight. He didn't ever cry on the plane rides, just fussed a bit when he was hungry/tired. Overall, he's a champ!

The jetlag is no fun, but we're starting to adjust. Brayden is the funniest because he doesn't want to miss out on any of the action but he gets SO tired by the time it's about noon here. So the rest of the day he just starts getting loopy and laughing at everything. He loves his uncle Steve and every time he looks at him he'll try hard to laugh. One time he had to try so hard that he clenched his fists, and pushed out a laugh. Hehe. It was pretty darn cute. Better laughing than crying I guess :D Of course, we all have our share of jetlag too. I went to take a nap at about 5 this evening (3:00am in Utah) and didn't wake up until Preston came to bed at 10:30! Oops ... I didn't even get to see my dad today because he didn't get home until 8 or 9. Just as a side note, it's now 3:20 am here ... tomorrow I won't take a nap right before bed.

Now for the fun part. Yesterday (Tuesday) we went to the school that Kim & Dad work at and met a bunch of people there, unfortunately my dad was out of town today so he wasn't there. We did manage to snap a picture of Brayden sitting in Dad's chair. What a big boy :)

We went to lunch with kim and then the driver took us to the Batu Caves. It's a big cave that was turned into a Hindu shrine. I think that we became more interested in the wildlife there than anything. Here's what we saw:

1) MONKEYS!! They were everywhere and we saw a couple snatches of kid's food.

we didn't have food, so I pulled out a gum wrapper for Preston to give the monkey. He knew it was garbage and threw it on the ground :)

I was getting a water bottle out of my purse and looked down to see a monkey standing with outstretched arms waiting for a treat. I thought it was so cute that I had to give it something, so I stuck out the water bottle and he tried to take it. He had a pretty good grip too!

Momma monkey with a baby- how adorable!

Baby getting his milks ... I know the feeling momma monkey!

This guy was huge!

2) Roosters. Random.

3)Wild dogs. The Muslims here think dogs are unclean animals so they have to go through a thorough cleansing process if they get touched by one. Good thing this is a Hindu shrine.

4) Pigeons. Some things are the same anywhere you go.

5) Snakes. You could pay to get a picture with them around your neck.

We weren't the only ones who found something besides the caves to be more interesting. Brayden became quite the spectacle. Everyone wanted to touch him and hold him :)

This was one of the servers at the place we went for lunch. She wanted to hold Brayden and she took him to show the other servers who all took pictures of him :)

The rest of the shrine was pretty neat too.

That's the conclusion of our first day in Malaysia. Pretty fun so far! Be back tomorrow.