Day 41 - Petronas Towers

On Tuesday we walked around the city and took the MRT to experience China Town and Central Market (a huge mall selling local goods and such in a building built in 1928).  A large number of women here wear hijabs.  I didn't realize it was such a Muslim country. The odd thing was seeing women in full burkas holding hands and laughing with their husbands (boyfriends?).  All we see on TV are the very oppressed women who stick together in female-only circles in the middle east, but here they were laughing and flirting, and being...normal...in their black burkas and bright pink Skecher sneakers with the man wearing shorts and a t-shirt.  That was a new experience for us.

It was most interesting to see a vending machine by the Subway selling SunSilk hair care products with a girl in a hijab on it and the hashtag "hair selfie".  Wait, what??  Marketing fail.

Below: Cool building with a Texas Chicken restaurant.  :)

After a long day exploring the city we headed to the Petronas towers to see the sunset, which again was a failure, but at least the view was wonderful. 

We had just missed the F1 race when we arrived, but at least we got to see a model of a car in the lobby.

For this building you pay to get to the sky bridge (world's tallest at the 41st floor) for about 15 minutes and then you get to go to the tip top and look out over all of KL.  Here are views from the bridge and from the top point.

The elevator going up had video walls on every side except for the doors so it felt like you could see outside!!!

Here's another video I found on youtube from a different angle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwAkWWU75Ho

After seeing all of KL we relaxed by the fountain that had music and a light show and headed to the other side of the park to have a drink at SkyBar which was such a perfect ending to the night since we could see the towers from the open windows on the top floor at hte bar next to a pool with laser lights and and DJ with a live violinist playing along to techno music. Aside from the service being the slowest in Asia yet, it was a wonderful end to the night...but wait, there's more!

When I went to the bathroom at SkyBar, I was waiting behind an Asian lady in line while three young British girls primped.  There were two stalls, but one was making a noise and so we were waiting for a long time to use the only other toilet. We asked the British girl closest to the stall what was wrong and why it couldn't be used and she said it was *accent* "squirting water, so much that you could get wet by going in there."  I figured this was probably the bidet gone wrong so I checked it out.  I noticed a turn knob near the floor and just as the girl was peeking in to see what I was doing *turn turn*SQUIRRRTT*turn turn turn* I turned the bidet UP instead of DOWN and it went straight at us!!  We all screamed and by this time an older French lady was in line also and was laughing hysterically.  The poor British girl didn't understand that it wasn't toilet water, so she asked what it was that had been running, and I explained some people use the bidet instead of toilet paper but don't know why.  Eventually with the help of her friends she realized it was clean water that I had sprayed her with.  Omg, I felt so bad but was laughing so hard myself and one of her friends said she wished she had gotten it on video.  These are the experiences you can't plan for, and yet you will never ever forget!