A typical work day in KL?

Wednesday we spent the day in meetings (in this very room). We discuss various technical parts of our production efforts in Chad. During the morning we have some of the ExxonMobil Team call in from Houston to give us their reports. This means it's anywhere from 9pm to 1 am for them. Glad I was on this end.

Meeting room in the 4th floor of the conference center.

During the evening we got together for dinner. Started at 8pm not my ideal dinning time, but I took one for the team.
Traditional Malaysia food dinner at local restaurant.

Other half of the table.

The guys talked me into gettng my picture with the dancers before the show.

The night ended with the above group of dancers who preformed TRADITIONAL Malaysia dances. It was interesting to say the least.

Chicken Fish for Dinner!

Monday night we had the pleasure of reuniting with our old ExxonMobil Chad Team friend Mitch Rotter who took us downtown KL to our favorite chicken fish Restaurant, Hop Kee. Yep, it's a street Restaurant and the street is lined with places just like it-
I forgot to take a picture of our food BEFORE we devoured it. Just for your info, The chicken fish looks like a groper fish, not like a chicken at all. John, me, Mitch (our guide) and Jeff.

Up the street and

down the street. Restaurant after Restaurant all wanting you to eat their food.

John P. and Mitch on our way home from dinner.

Malay Mall - Night Life

The Petronas Twin Towers

Today we spent the day with Petronas in meetings in their Twin tower. It was a clear day and we could see for miles. ExxonMobil Building at the end of the silver flatter roofed conference building.
A lot of the buildings are twined because it is much cheaper to build the second building if it's just like the first.

The Twin Towers at night. This large city Park is very cool. Lots of families come here during the weekends and evenings. Includes playgrounds and swiming pools. Notice the large road to the top left corner that deadends into the park? It leads to a six story underground parking garage that extends under the entire park. Pretty awesome!

Our hotel the Mandirian Oriental from the Petronas Twin Towers where we had our meeting on Monday. The silver roofed building above it is the Conference center where our meetings will be through the rest of the week.

Trip to Baku Caves

Saturday we took a tour around town and this was the last stop. Last time I did this climb back in the 1990's there were monkeys running all over and NO giant statue at the entrance.

The stairs (all 287) of them seemed endless!

Once at the top of the stairs there is still more.

The boys at the Great room.

Center room Buda Shrine.

The Cave is more like a tunnel with open room at the end as you can see from this photo.

Direct to you from Malaysia

Well, after a 3 legged flight from Houston (10, 11 and 1 hours) we made it to Kuala Lumpur Malaysia at 8 am in the morning. We took the train from the airport to the city and then from there a cab. We got settled in our rooms at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel had lunch and visited the mall accross the street.

My partners for the trip Jeff Mathews and John Pederson (who new our family in Saudi).

The following pictures are the center of HUGE mall next to our Hotel. Luckly none of us have any of our wives with us or we would be BROKE! As you can tell they are ready for valentines day!

The Petronas Twin Towers - we will have a meeting on the 72 floor on Monday with Petronas.

Pretty Cakes! & Never to Late for the Christmas Train

Eric and Celeste are taking cake decorating classes and are having a great time learning and then practicing their new learned talent! Aren't they purrty!! They really did a good job. Can you guess who's is who's?

I finally got serious about the Christmas Train under the tree but unfortunately it was after most the kids left! The Red train is mine that I got when I was around 7. It's been a loyal friend every since. Anyway wanted to share it with all the kids who didn't get to see it! Happy New year!