Colourful Dresses, Cruising and A House – Wednesday 17th Feb 2010

This morning I was awoken by a phone call at what seemed like 2am in the morning (it turns out is was actually 7:15am). Thinking it was some kind of emergency, I was happily mistaken! William rang to say we got the house we had applied for in Adelaide – so this put me in a very good mood for the remainder of the day!

After an unplanned for sleep-in, we had to do the household chores, which meant taking our clothes to the laundry across the street where they will be cleaned, dried and folded for approximately $2 AUD. Our chores also involved removing the ‘Do Not Disturb’ sign from the door, so our room could be cleaned, fresh towels supplied, beds remade and toilet paper restocked. It’s a hard life here in Kuching!

As the weather was somewhat monsoonal this morning, our plans to visit the Orangutans fell through, so we spent a relaxed day in the city, where I bought 2 colourful dresses (each about $6 AUD) and finished my gift shopping. We sought out free WIFI in Starbucks again, where we spent a ridiculous amount of time before deciding we had not been sufficiently touristy for the day. To combat this, we took a teksi (taxi) to the Sarawak museum. This is what we saw:

Unfortunately, we did not go inside as it was 10mins from closing time… but hey, at least we tried! Off to the waterfront to try attempt 2 at being touristy. We took the River Cruise, which took 1.5 hours. I REALLY liked all the colourful fishing boats and ramshackle houses that lined the river’s edge, there was something utterly charming about them.

As is to be expected with any touristy adventure here, cultural dancing was a feature of the cruise. It was very similar to the dancing we saw yesterday at the Cultural Village, but entertaining nonetheless.

Dinner = amazing ‘Wild Borneo’ Laksa washed down with lime juice.

It was amazing – my favourite meal here so far! Sujoy very nicely collected us from the city and took us back to the condominiums. Our plans for the next two days sound very pleasing (let’s hope they go ahead)– so Kelly is one happy chappy right now :)