Saturday, January 24, 2009

swimming pools and chinese acrobats

it is very amusing that zoe is a bit of tourist attraction here in k.l., as she was in indonesia. i do not know how many people are going home with pics of her on there cellphones and cameras. i have even seen a lot of people taking "sneak" fotos of her with their cellphones. this group of girls was a bit more forthcoming, and asked to take a group pic with her.so it was a hot day and we found ourselves all alone without the rest of the thorens, so we thought we would head out to a mall and look for a bcd for thomas, but zoe started quite early with "me badda i poole" (translated from zoe language, this means i want to go swimming in the pool). so we decided to skip the mall and head to the free kiddie pools down by the petronas tours. it was nice and cooling, though there were two guards on duty that whistled constantly at people. if you did not have kids you could not be there, no shoes, no standing over there, no swimming without a shirt (thomas got the whistle on that one), no laying down on the benches (thomas got that one too). but all in all zoe got her swimming in, and we got to cool down.
so, after the swim, we changed our minds and went to the mid valley mall anyway. which ended up being a good choice even though there were no good bcds for thomas, as there was lots of free entertainment. there was a group of acrobats from china that put on a really cool show in the middle of the mall in celebration of the chinese new year. it was pretty crazy seeing these two fly around in a mall from some hanging fabric...
then there was hopping and jumping and pyramid building...
it was lots of fun to watch and zoe was laughing and clapping along with everyone else. it was very cute. after the show, zoe decided to get up on stage and do her own little show. that is until the guard made her give up the act!

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