The starting of Malaysia

Alright this is our start in Malaysia...we arrived there on the 15th of December pretty late at night...tired and hungry. We were staying at the Berjaya Resort. Right on the water and we had a water view from our room. After the rearranging of the rooms we were settled in to our Premier Chalet. It was fantastic. This is one of the views on the way to the Thai restaurant that was built on stilt in the water.

Don't know if you can see then but it the monkeys that hang out at the Berjaya. Some silly people feed them...yup people feed the wild life and wonder why they get bit.

This is one of the rooms that you can stay in there...looks like summer camp doesn't it? Well they are like summer camp...but no worries we had a room with marble floors, tub and shower, huge bed, big t.v. a porch Doug and I would sit out on and play games, read or just listen to the ocean.

This is how we got from our room to the lobby. Doug and I usually walked but at night we road. This place was so huge that you had to be driven to your room. It was about seventy acres, with hills every where. A few restaurants, a spa...and well the fitness room sucked so I ran outside. Anyway the buses were fun and they had crazy drivers.

This is the view from our room. It's ok you can say out loud that it is pretty cool. Doug would go and read out there and I would pretend to go running...mostly it was slow jog with a lot of sweat. We had great weather.


So our first day was getting settled and unpacking. After that we rented a sea kayak and kayaked around a small island next to the Berjaya. The island had monkeys on it and tons of crabs that would just run around...and jump all over the rocks. It was beautiful, we had so much fun laughing and being on the water. for ten bucks it was like an hour of fun. DO NOT WORRY WE PUT SUNBLOCK ON!!!! We didn't get burned at all. Very smart.

Anyway after we went kayaking we needed to get some money and find out where some stuff is so we went to the "town" called Talaga Harbor really it was just a few stores and restaurants along this dock. We went to the ATM....the gas station to buy some food and water, and then started to walk along the harbor. There were these huge boats, yachts and sailboats, amazing. We found a liquor store and bought some Guinness and really cheap wine...that we never drank. We also found a place to do laundry for 4RM a kilo which came in very handy later. And a place to rent mopeds (40 RM all day, 24 hours). Also we found a row or restaurants that were not Chinese food. SO where do you think we ate every night. So for dinner that night we decided we were going to come back and go to Tapaz. Let me tell you...you had to roll Doug and I out of there. The food was amazing. So much fun. The setting was beautiful.