Day 58: Departure

Mood: Relieved but sad
Music: Random Japanese Music from the on board flight system

Today started early as we had to get up to buy our tickets for the Petronas Towers viewing platform. They only issue a set number every day and you have to buy those tickets on the day. As the booth opens at 8:30am, the queue starts building up from about 7am. We joined at about 7:20am and it already had a hundred or more people in it, each buying tickets for several people.

Once we got to the front of the queue the tickets for the observation deck at the top of the building were only available for after when we needed to be at the airport, so we could only visit the viewing bridge. After buying the tickets we headed back to the hotel for breakfast.

Breakfast and packing took most of the rest of the morning until we had to check out. At that point we moved up to the lounge available to those with 'traders club' rooms. This provides free refreshments and we sat here and read until it was time to head back over to the towers.

The trip up to the joining platform starts with a 5 minute "aren't we great" video by Petronas. We then were piled into a service lift and run up to floor 41 where the lower floor of the bridge connects the towers.

We were told we'd get 15 minutes on the viewing platform but were shepherded back into the lift after about 5 or 6mins. I did manage to get a photo of Rolf looking down out over the towers, as shown above.

From there we headed to the airport via KL Sentral station. As my flight was 3 hours after Emily's flight home, I said a brief goodbye as she went through security and I was going to join her the far side after I'd checked in.

Unfortunately the check in didn't open for quite a while and then I had difficulty checking in given that I didn't have paper tickets confirming when I'd be leaving the country. By the time I did get through security, immigration and over to the departure building, her flight had boarded.

As such, instead of a photo of Rolf waving at Emily boarding her plane, it is merely one of him waving at her flight just before it left.