Weekend wanderings: A tale of four cities

The hubby was on leave since Thursday, so we (and my mum) hopped across the causeway and headed to Klang to stay with a friend for a two nights, since we needed to go down to Putrajaya (the admin capital of Malaysia) to submit Junior J's application for citizenship.  The submission process was simple, since it involved handing in a few forms and photocopies of various documents (loads of people have asked me why can't we do it over at the High Comm here, but I have no answer to that!), and I only snapped photos from the car, so we had some time to go explore elsewhere.

Bridge at Putrajaya

Our friend very nicely took time off from work to join us, and on my request, we entered the urban maze that is Kuala Lumpur, and headed for Pasar Seni (Central Market), since I always try to check out craft places where ever we go.  The place was chok-full of shops selling everything and anything related to handicrafts:

My mum got Junior J a Mickey Mouse watch (since he kept wanting to wear my Casio and looked really funny with a huge watch on his tiny arm!), and he spent some time admiring it...

... however, I tend to get a headache when faced with too many options when shopping (that's why I tend to avoid Orchard Road like the plague!), so we left after abit.  But we did get a pair of Van Gogh-ish paintings by a local painter (he paints really gorgeous works on mangosteens btw!)...

There was some talk about going to Batu caves after that, but everyone was tired, and the weather was oh so hot, so we headed back to our friend's place.  We headed back down to Melaka the next day to give my mum her shopping fix (and I also wanted to look at all those pretty handicrafts being sold at Jonker Street!), and ended up with a couple of really cute stools for Junior J's room (at RM24 a stool, I thought they were extremely worth it, especially since they were made of solid wood, and pretty sturdy!).

Junior J testing out the stools...

We also bought boxes and boxes of these really yummy pineapple tarts (however, they are only yummy when fresh, and tend to be just blah after two days!)...

... and my mum got all sorts of other yummies (she was smiling from ear to ear after all that shopping!)...

... and she smiled even more when we ended up at Jusco for some grocery shopping!

We too also were smiling after that, since they were selling jumbo packs of Huggies Ultra at RM 35.90!

No trip would be complete without yummy food, but that warrants a post on its own, so I shall sign off here!  Hope everyone had a great weekend!