Melaka, Malaysia

This past weekend a group of us headed to Malaysia. It was about a four hour bus ride. We woke up really early Friday morning and came back Sunday morning. It was a good weekend trip, as there isn't too much to do in the city. It is pretty old and interesting, but after a few days you run out of stuff to do. There are beaches nearby but you can't get in the water, so we decided we didn't want to go to a beach where we could lay on the sand and look at the water. There were 8 of us on the trip. We met up with 6 others that we knew but they had to leave a day later than us because they had Saturday classes.

Our hotel is below. We were going to do a hostel but the ones we knew were full, so we found this place and it was a good find. We would highly recommend it if anyone happens to ever go to Melaka. It's in China town, right near a pretty cool night market that they have every night. (I got a giraffe lamp at the night market, pics of him later. He's really cute.) The guy at the hotel desk was really nice and sent us to good local food places. We found that the harder it was to communicate to the waiter, the better the food probably was. It wasn't too expensive either. My room was 148 ringgits for 5 girls, which basically came out to 8 dollars a night.
Here we are wandering through the city. We found some sort of playground rope thing, so we decided we should climb it. It was kindof rough, but at least provided about 15 minutes entertainment.



Somehow someone thought all the tech kids in the group should take this picture :( It wasn't very nice. We found this in the mall. Yes, we went to the mall for part of the day in melaka. We didn't mean to, we just found it. They had interesting stuff and it had air conditioning so that was enough to keep us around. There were tons of shirts with english words on it, and they were all complete nonsense. They were just random words thrown on a shirt.