Day 89 – April 14 – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

We decided to have a ship day today.   Both of us were tired of big Asian cities, and didn’t want to do any of the tours especially the ones with 1.5 to 2 hour bus rides each way.  We had visited both Kuala Lumpur and Malacca before.

We slept late, had a nice breakfast for a change and then decided we would start packing.

We have a complicated packing situation as when we leave the ship, we still have a 30 day land tour in the Emirates and South Africa.  So we began to separate what we know goes home and what we know goes with us.

We had purchased the small hang-up bag because we need to have “elegant casual” for the hotels including a jacket for Fred.  We also purchased 3 of the light-weight duffel bags to send home the souvenirs we have purchased.  Fred had packed up most of the souvenirs in 3 boxes but we decided it was too much trouble to take them off the ship and mail them from Singapore even though it might have been a light cheaper.  The new duffels are going to work well as they don’t weigh anything themselves but hold quite a bit and allow Jan to pack some of the breakables in the more sturdy of our regular suitcases.

It felt good to have some of the packing done with a plan on how to complete it before we leave the ship.

We had a nice lunch on the pool deck.  While it was hot, there was a breeze and in the shade it wasn’t too bad. 

We went up to the Observation Lounge for sail away and decided that we really were not hungry for dinner as we had hamburgers for lunch.  So we just enjoyed the evening there and returned to our suite.