Conquering Malaysia- 1 toy museum at a time

Nicole, Todd, Paul and I left our fourth morning in Penang in hopes to conquer as much as we can. We ask several taxi cab drivers who will take us around for a day 20 ringit an hour and finally find one for 25. He takes us to the butterfly farm. Well, I wore my new super vibrant dress, with a flowered pattern all over it. Those poor butterflies. They were flying up, landing on them, and trying to eat them. Poor Nicole spent a good 20 minutes or so trying to get one to sit on her finger. Eventually she just gave up. I literally just walked up and it hopped right on. Sorry Nicole.

Then, our taxi cab driver randomly took us to a Batik store, probably for commission. Anyways we looked around and watched how they paint these large sheets of silk with little pens and brushes.

As we were looking at this whole list of places to go- Todd insisted that we go to the toy museum. So this is how I ended up in what the sign claims as ‘the biggest toy museum in the world’. I didn’t even know one existed. Well, the museum kind of looked like Ripley’s Believe it or Not. Random statues and figurines just stood everywhere. Shelves upon shelves of every toy you could imagine lined this building that looked like a tomb. No really- it was some sort of Egyptian theme. It was painted a rusty gold, and had mummies and hieroglyphics everywhere. Who really knows.

So our next stop might not come as a surprise. A mall. No really- I know, it’s not a surprise. 5 stories. Very impressive. Malaysians know how to shop. We had lunch on the third floor. It was a cute little restaurant. I couldn’t even tell you what kind of food it was though. It had pictures so that helped a lot. I got a butter bun (the actual name is more impressive, like Pho Butter Bun), honey BBQ pork and little noodles. Amazing. For 12 ringits- or 4 bucks or so. It’s crazy.

Afterwards we all spilt up and went our own way. I found the Sex and the City series- all 7 season for a whopping total of 20 bucks. Since my card seemed to have frozen- I only had a limited amount on me and couldn’t buy much and didn’t want to spend it on one thing. Instead, I bought boots, a shirt, 3 CD’s, and 2 magazines. I know, I just said I didn’t buy much- right? Keep in mind that all of that only adds up to 30 bucks. Seriously. Afterwards I met up with Nicole. The boys ditched and went back. Typical, haha. Nicole still hadn’t Skyped her mom so I headed back by myself. That night I got all ready to go out, but got pretty sick and fell asleep before 9. I was really looking forward to seeing Penang at night, too. Oh well.