Christmas in Kuala Lumpur

The Christmas Tree at the Hotel

I'm Lovin' It!





Bollywood, Baby!












The Candy Shoppe.

Well the Christmas Break mercifully arrived it and with it a chance for the Getzingers to get off of the island. We headed to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is a short 45 minute flight from Pekanbaru but the distance in Holiday Spirit is immeasurable. Here in Pekanbaru while the major department store has some Christmas decorations up and some music playing, KL was like going from the "Grinch" to "It's a Wonderful Life" in terms of Christmas excitement.

Every store was full of music, decorations, Santas and Christmas promotions. You might be sitting at home reading this and be thinking that those commercialized aspects of Christmas are overdone and you are sick of them already. Well when you have no change in weather, you are living in a country that for the most part doesn't celebrate Christmas and you have kids; they were a welcome sight for sure.

The pictures above are of the hotel we were staying at. It was a great place with an awesome breakfast. They even had ice cream for the homemade waffles. Kade and Sydney thought that ice cream for breakfast was a pretty good idea. The hotel even had a Christmas Candy Shoppe set up in the lobby.

We hit up a lot of Christmas shopping as well as a bunch of grocery shopping. We also hit up the Chinese Market where we purchased some clothing for the kids including the sweet pink outfit Brooklyn is wearing above. It jingles when she moves. You can blame that one on Kathi! We were even able to smuggle in some honey ham from the butcher and also real cheddar cheese! You absolutely cannot get that here. Christmas dinner will now be complete.

We are now back in Pekanbaru and are spending the rest of the break here. It should be a nice relaxing next couple of weeks.