Hey all,

We all woke up this morning with a slight sleep in, weary-eyed and ready for our last full day in Malaysia.

We started the morning off with a buffet breakfast – which had hash browns! Yay! After breakfast we made our way down to the Lobby to get our nerd on, ready for our long awaited tour of KL.

Arriving at the National Museum with bright eyes and glasses (see: Bree, ready to read the museum captions) we were showed around the museum and told many interesting facts.

Fact #1: If you want to buy a kris (a dagger which is held by the people in power) then you need to make sure you ask if it has been cleansed.

Fact #2: One of the Kings “went for a medical” but actually married a Russian woman so got denounced from his position

During our tour we also visited the War Memorial, King’s Palace, Petronas Twin Towers, the River of Life, and Merdeka Square where Malaysia gained their independence (the flagpole where the Union Jack was taken down and the Malaysian flag raised). We also got way too excited about an orange juice machine that played music as it freshly squeezed the oranges. The tour ended with a lovely bus ride home listening to some long awaited bops from the Mamma Mia soundtrack.

With the guards at the King’s Palace

National Monument showing those who helped protect Malaysia during World War II

Petronas Twin Towers

Arriving back at the Melia Hotel we walked over to the Times Square shopping centre with hungry bellies ready for a big lunch. After lunch we shopped until we dropped, buying t-shirts with the incorrect spelling of Louis Vuitton (aka “Luis Vuttion” – this has been Jorja’s goal the entire trip), fake Gucci, Starbucks hydro flask (VSCO girl much?) and getting our nails painted the wrong colour.

Upon our return to the hotel we changed into something a little more comfortable for dinner and the light show at the Petronas Towers … which turned out to be lightning instead. So we had to forgo the light show as there was a massive thunderstorm, so we ended up soaked as we ran from the shelter of shop fronts to the train station.

We are all now sitting together writing this blog on a Word document because the blog won’t open – but we have been very lucky with both weather and the internet the entire trip, so it was bound to happen eventually.

Sorry, got to go play an intense game of Mafia and Uno, for one last time.

Thank you all so much for reading our blog these last 2 weeks and supporting us on this once in a lifetime adventure filled with opportunities to grow and learn about the world around us.

Until we arrive in Perth, yours sincerely,

The Bethany Gals of 2019 xoxo

Bree and Izzy

Our final blog back at the hotel – Ignore the “drowned rat” look after escaping the thunderstorm