good bye to KL

so we packed up and got ready to go, after finding possibly the only sony repair centre in all of KL (to fix our treasured new camera - which we, of course, managed to break,,,).

we got to the airport ...all good..checked in and waited to board. whilst boarding we were asked to stop and head back to the terminal....uh oh... after a two hour wait and much toe tapping by many waiting, they announced all flights that day were cancelled due to another eruption on Java.. totally chaos ensued.  all nationalities falling over themselves trying to work out what to do.

I them committed a fatal error .. I forgot the cardinal rule of travel, ask, ask again and then ask one more time just to be sure...

We ended up queuing for two hours in one queue only to be told we had to collect out luggage and then rebook tickets in the main terminal....ahh....so we picked up our luggage and headed to the airline offices as instructed which was not in fact the airlline office but the check in for flight attendants.  We then changed floors and the lift doors opened to total chaos.  Queues, children screaming and all sorts arguing.  We dutifully queued (again) for our token) and then again..to be seen. Finally we were rebooked for the next day (assuming the flight was a go... the kids were great, we managed to navigate the (or at least Amie did) and find the railway station. Back to our hotel in KL - slight technical hitch being that we (again) ended up on the wrong side of the freeway from our hotel.  I will remember for all eternity the kids pushing wheely cases along a major road up to the htoel and several hotel staff rushing out to great us in horror!

Next day we were finally off!!!after finally establishing the right queue (not making that mistake again..) we lined up to check in.  Huge queue until a shirt and tie man appeared and intructed staff to open another check in and ushered us forward.  It was hiliarious, a chinese tour guide saw that gap, usain bolt had nothing on her, she was off.... but shirt and tie man was faster (unbelievably) up came the hand ..no auntie you are in the first queue!

flight great - alex made a mayalsian friend and swapped computer games the whole way.