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Picking up where I left off from our Hello Kitty adventure in JB a few months back – we also made a visit to The Little Big Club.  It TOTALLY makes sense to also pay TLBC a visit esp when it’s located one floor above Hello Kitty.  Of course, parents will only boys would probably see fit in visiting TLBC alone and not together with Hello Kitty.

The warm welcoming sign.

Not sure if it’s just me, but TLBC screams BOY because besides being almost blue everywhere, they cater mostly for boy cartoon shows. But it’s still worth a visit esp since they have awesome kiddie rides for the little one.

That place is further split into two levels – first floor for Meet & Greet of the characters while the second floor is where the fun stuff is.

Naturally we proceeded to the second floor first And I cannot emphasize how awesome it is to go there on a working weekday because there wasn’t a single line for the rides and we went on it a few times maximizing what we paid for our tickets.

Thomas The Train ride….just a simple circling the train track ride, went on it twice regardless.

There’s also a bumper car ride for the kids – too bad Sairah is too young for this.

Bus ride shot taken from our Ferris Wheel ride.

Naturally the little one was very keen so we ended up in the bus ride

The view from our bus going up and down. I’m super impressed with Sairah too that despite the ride going  a little fast, she was soo happy and wanted to go again. I have a lil thrill seeker here who loves such rides and I”m 100% convinced she got it from her mama

It almost looks like a Hollywood set don’t you think?

Her absolute favorite was this helicopter ride (I serious believe they have other proper names for each ride but I didn’t bother paying attention), and we went on this not once, not twice but about THREE freaking times all so we could see a smile on her face.

Buckle up…safety first!

Captain Sairah ready to steer us away to greater heights.

Are we ready to take off Mummy? Good, suck in your tummies please, we’re about to take off and I need this ride to be as light as possible!

Do check out the video here, and yes I know, I sound a little too excited in it but what the heck, there’s a kid in all of us

Cheeky kiss for Daddy so she could play longer on the second floor.

Madam walking towards the mini Ferris Wheel ride.

Up up up and away we go…

Lost anneh waiting for God’s knows what.

After getting our money’s worth, we proceeded to the lower level.

Angelina Ballerina room…

I LOVE how there are ballerina costumes provided for the kiddies to dress into and jump on stage. But I cannot imagine how chaotic this place will be when it’s peak season with every kid screaming their head off wanting to get into that outfit.

WTF is this overly-pink shiatz? Quite frankly, I think she would have been more happier on the second floor me think.

Isn’t this the cutest sight with all the other ballerinas in pink? Every girl was doing their own thing yo!

Ok mom, take it off, I dance freestyle damnit and not ballet.

Meet & Greet session in progress. Naturally the entire room was filled with GIRLS and more girls!

Bob The Builder.

PINGU! Was one of my favorite place too coz they had like a mini game room.

Aight kiddo, show me what you got!

And Mommy scoreeees!!! Such a bad-mommy moment I swear – my poor baby looks so confused but whatever I WON

I know whack-a-mole but whack-a-Pingu?? Hmm..but regardless, if you look at Sairah’s points, they seem to be higher than her dad’s…so am not sure if my 2 year old plays like her 35 year old father or if her 35 year old father plays like a 2 year old. You decide!

And of course, one of her absolute favorite and as she calls all play centers - ’Jungle Gym’. And technically she’s right, it can be get very jungle-y in these play centres sometimes with certain type of kids around.

After spending a good 3 hours we finally made our way to Johor Premium Outlet just to look see.

We were SUPER impressed by the layout coz it seriously reminded us of the outlet stores you see in the States.

Except, when I went to the outlet store in Vegas, I managed to get some Calvin Klein bra for a mere USD5!! I tried to see if my RM15 could get me anything here but NOPE. I didn’t find the prices here particular cheap and neither did any of the brands/item on sale were appealing so I only went home with a bottle of Purelogy shampoo for half price

Hubby on the other hand did some shopping for jeans.

We also drove into Singapore for a day trip the next day after our Hello Kitty / TLBC adventure.

Lunch break with our Diva Baby – am too cool for Singapore y’all. And to be honest, I didn’t find Singapore particular exciting – it somehow didn’t appeal to me no matter how many people have raved highly about the shopping and Singapore itself. I do give props however for being a clean city.

@ Orchard Road.  Singlish is not a very sexy language when spoken too loud esp when wearing skimpy clothes. Then again neither is manglish but whatever la brader, I”m bias, heh.

We were SO thankful she sat quietly on her stroller which we’ve not brought out in the past one year okie!

Oh lookie, me feeling like a baby again! My baby has grown so much I tell you.

One day one day that will be ours. But yea we were glad to be out of Singapore after a few hours.

Saying bye to our trip to down south!

And yea this is what the car looked like the entire time – filled with baby toys/books/diaper bag, anything and everything so that she would stay put for our 5 hour drive.

But overall, it was a good relaxing  holiday despite the long journey.  I’m not a huge fan of travelling long distance by car but for the sake of Hello Kitty and The Little Big Club visit for my precious Sairah – this momma sucked it in and went with the flow and I highly recommend both these places if you have a toddler. They will love you for it and talk about this trip for months!

Going back to Krabi almost felt like we had rewind the clock to 5 years ago. Of course, one look in the mirror made me realize we weren’t coz 5 years ago, a fat body didn’t stare back. And I didn’t have a clingy toddler to remind me of the ‘present’ .

Krabi will always be special in a way because that was our honeymoon destination where we first went as husband and wife and boy did we have an adventure where we lived to tell! Not much as changed in Krabi and I can still remember the roads and little nooks and crane that we explored 5 years ago, sans a toddler in tow that is And till today, I can still remember the tsunami fiasco while having a massage which prompted everyone to pack up and just run fearing for their lives. I tried however to look for that same massage place but couldn’t find it. And if that’s not enough, there was a plane crash in Phuket by a local carrier that killed everyone on board – that sort of sent relatives in a frenzy coz they assumed we were in Phuket and might have taken that flight. Like I said – our honeymoon was one of a kind!

SO why Krabi as a honeymoon destination? Well simply because it was the only place the husband could afford.

True story.

When we first talked about picking our honeymoon destination, Maldives came to both our minds. Of course with that also came a heavy price tag which the husband was okay taking on considering he assumed he had a few more months to save up before the big day.

But then our wedding date got brought MUCH earlier, and with his recent splurge and renovation on his apartment, he broke the news of not being able to afford going on an extravagant honeymoon and asked if we could go someplace cheaper lighter on his wallet.

I do believe that was my first test/challenge as his wife, hahaha having to put up with cheapness and bad times, lol.

Our budget for our honeymoon must have been under RM2k or less I think for about 8 days. So yes in that sense I do cringe whenever I hear brides talk about their extravagant and exotic honeymoon that cost over RM20k coz that’s like 10 times more than what we spent! *bitter mode*, lol.

But surprisingly I wasn’t upset at all when he told me. I should have been – it was our honeymoon for God’s sake. But I was cool as a cucumber – mainly because I’ve always been fond of Thailand and would use ANY excuse to go there. And besides, I didn’t want to be that woman who makes a big deal about their honeymoon and demand to be taken to crazy exotic places just coz my vagina is made of gold because there’s no point blowing such money and having to suffer in the first year of marriage esp when that money would be of good use to start off of a new home.

I can be wise when I want to

SO we initially booked flights to Bangkok (of all places!) to spend our first week as husband and wife. And I actually booked us into budget hotel to stay and it was heart breaking to later find out as we stepped into the hotel that our bookings weren’t confirmed due to some glitch and we were officially left without a hotel room since the hotel was already full! 20 minutes later after some arguing with the owner, a Thai Indian guy, told us to go over to his friend’s hotel where we were given a ‘suite’ at a special rate and mind you, it was a walk up 3 star hotel perhaps that totally remind me of all things Punjab!! To top it off, it was located upstairs a tailor shop owned by that Punjabi guy!!

Charming really.

But at least it’s near a train station we told ourselves being the typical optimistic newly weds we were, hahaha.  Now that I think about that place, I miss it. I can’t for the life of me recall the name of the hotel though.

Was I upset? Initially, a little coz aren’t honeymoons suppose to be perfect? I guess it will be if you’re not on a stinky budget! But sooner,  that place grew on me. Like what better way to embrace a lil bit of Punjabi-ness while in Thailand! It was a sign = Punjabi + Thai = part of ME!  Sure at one time we could even hear some couple banging in the next room due to the thin walls (I took a bet with a hubby it was probably some prostitute or worst still a she-male) but like I said, by day 2, we were loving the hotel – thin walls and all  I swear I told myself one day I’ll have an outlet to tell the awesome story of our honeymoon and here it is

But I digress. Somewhere after booking our Bangkok flight, I came across Air Asia’s Krabi promotion and excitedly the husband booked our flight from Bangkok to Krabi and  YES we booked it and decided we would fly to KL-Bangkok-Krabi for the first few days of our honeymoon, like a bunch of idiots not knowing that Kl-Krabi would have only cost us a 1.5 hours flight compared to the 2.5 hours flight to Bangkok only to sprint across Bangkok airport like a bunch of lunatic to catch the flight that we almost missed and which would back track and take us to Krabi!!

Brilliant much? Yup it literally took us half a day to get to Krabi

See, there’s proof that we weren’t smart travelers then. BUT we’ve become so much wiser ever since our first trip as husband and wife and that is what you call practice and getting smarter over the years, lol. I know research research research like a crazy bitch before going anywhere.

We stayed in the same hotel we did – which was Krabi La Playa Resort and its nice to see that even after 5 years nothing much has changed with the hotel. Hmm, not sure if that’s a good thing or bad

One of the things that brightened our day then was seeing this elephant shaped towel and it was good to see Sairah being all happy about it too. It’s the simple things people.

Morning view from the balcony.

The sunset view from the balcony.

Elephants sunbathing. Oops I mean tourist sunbathing. I could never be one of those fat people who would be more than happy to dangle my big belly in public and worst still just frolic in a bikini. Just saying.

Aonang Area

The beach just 10 minutes walk from the hotel.

The best part about this hotel I feel is the little street food stalls located just a 2 minute walk. It was constantly packed because not only was food CHEAP it tasted GOOD too.

One of my favorites when in Thailand is to hunt for these pancakes.

Banana-Nutella Pancake biatch or as I call it Thai-style crepes Had it every day we were there.

Did I already mention Krabi was stinking hot this time?

No? How sexy is this photo?

Good thing the poor baby wasn’t too arsed about sweating all over her head.

Nothing like teaching the little one to sit on a road side stall waiting for dinner. That is until the damn rain greeted us and we ran halter skelter like as though rain was acid.

A random Indian restaurant that we visited coz Sairah wanted her chapati. No matter how mixed one can be, sometimes just cannot take the bhai blood out  ya know.

Of course typically every Thai trip has one photo of the husband hogging beer bottles its cheap and I give him the freedom to knock himself out Not quite literally, but you get the jist.

Baby girl somehow very keen to help her father out, hmm..

More sand sea and ocean view.

Ah clingy baby wants mommy to carry her.

And of course like I said before, I have a soft spot for Black Canyon! They do serve the BEST coffee in Thailand. Even the food isn’t too bad and a whole lot better than the ones served in KL. But I do drop by their KL outlets for their drinks whenever I can.

Can’t drink coffee yet so I’ll just help stir-stir-stir

And if you ever go to Krabi, you MUST visit Kodam Kitchen located near our hotel. It’s one of those rare gem of a restaurant that cooks authentic Thai food that cost half the price of what the other mat sallehs/tourist were paying on the other end.

Suckers! Food so good we went three times!

Sign of good food – when all plates are empty and you see the husband still fighting for whatever’s left of it.

Scene around Krabi town taken from our tuk tuk.

@ Krabi Town

A good trip always makes this little one sleep throughout the night. Heart this photo of her – so much innocence in it. It’s a different story when she’s awake of course.

And that was our lil trip to Krabi with the little one in tow with bits of memories from our honeymoon 5 years ago. And now we can add on more since we went back there with our child.  It was indeed good to be back there just for a few days.

And as for my honeymoon story, we did have a good time then and of course there’s a happy ending to it esp when the husband suprised me three years later with a trip Maldives after I gave birth to his dream daughter  You can read about our adventure here so it’s true when they say good things do happen to people who wait.

So now I’m waiting for a trip to Santorini or New York which are also my two dream desination Just saying!

5 years on, we went back to our honeymoon spot (interesting story how we ended up here then  but I’ll story that some other time) but this time with our little girl who seems to be a hit in Thailand. Combined with our previous trip to the Land of Smiles – Sairah does gather a bit of attention from locals. Its mind boggling really, because they do literally come up to her, hug her, talk to her, get so excited over a tiny person who they barely know. Most of the time it takes a while before realizing that neither Sairah or her mommy are Thais. But they do insist she looks very Thai! So that could be one of the factor Plus its also a priceless moment whenever we tell them she does have some Thai blood, coz that brings a big smile to their already smilling faces.

And best part is, Sairah walks away with freebies like a free banana, orange and muffins which they insist on giving her. Some money would be appreciated in the future, just saying, lol. She became so used to the attention that during this trip, whenever they came up to her, she’d put her hand together and immediately go ‘sawadee ka’ or ‘khop khun ka’ two Thai words she has memorized by now and that kid literally basked in the attention given to her.

Free banana in hand. The shop owner insisted she take two of em! If only I can get my groceries this way

By day 2, people at the hotel and the massage shop that we passed by everyday were literally  going on a first name basis and calling out to Sairah whenever they saw her and in return she would wave at them like a lil madam! When one of those days Sairah and I didn’t go down for Breakfast one lady went up to the husband and asked for her! The next day when I finally went for b’fast, she came up to me and said ‘why you no give her b’fast yday’, LOL hillarious moment!  Even on one occasion while I got myself a foot massage, Sairah was waiting outside with her father and after a while people started crowding around her, watching her every move, with one person even taking a photo of her according to her proud father.

My grandma would be proud :D  And for that reason you have no idea why I love Thailand SO much!

Anyway, point is, Sairah is also generally a whole lot happier and a very well behaved kid when she knows she’s on a holiday! That could apply to most kids too because of the change in environment and how there’s lots to see and take in visually and mentality that they forget to give us their parents aka their kulis a hard time! But there’s also no denying that as parents, we are literally the kid’s ‘maids’ when we’re on holiday. Priority on the trip is always making sure the kid is happy and we do whatever we can just to see a smile on her face. There was almost no tantrums or naughtiness during this trip which makes me believe we should just visit Thailand or go on trips even more. Praying husband would believe in this excuse It’s worth a shot I think, heh.

Lots of say about Krabi but for now I’d like to share smiling happy photos of my little girl.

Missy on board! Flight time was around 1 hour 20 minutes. This is her first flight having her OWN seat. She promptly sat on her seat without any fuss. As we were taking off, she kept saying ‘faster fasterrrr, aeroplane go faster’ lol.  Even when we took the early morning flight out, despite being sleepy, she sat on her seat and actually dozed off while sitting. Proud of her really coz I wasn’t expecting a fuss-free plane ride but what do you know, heh. But would I dare take her on a longer plane ride? Hmm, we’ll have to think hard about that!

What to eat what to eat….

Where the heck am I now? She slept off in the car on the way to the hotel so naturally this is her just-woke-up-groggy-face loook.

First thing we did was check out the beach while the hubby checked out the ladies of different shapes and size in their tiny bikinis

A quick ice cream break coz it was super duper hot!

Sawadee kaaa

One of her favorite ‘hang out’ spot in the hotel room was the bathtub where she took long baths!

And I’m not kidding when I say my number one priority when we were looking for a hotel here was to find a room that comes with a bath tub!! Because the hotel we stayed in JB previously didn’t have one and we had a tough time trying to get her to bathe standing up in a shower to the point surely some people would have heard me scream at her, it was that stressful okie! So we actually ended up staying in the same hotel we stayed during our honeymoon because that was the only hotel that suited us :) Except….there wasn’t anything romantic about this trip with a toddler in tow, lol.

She kept saying ’shower cap like Ellie’ from Pocoyo, mothers whos kids are obsessed with the show will get it

On the prowl for some good Thai food.

Her pink baby as she calls it got lost somewhere in the stall I’m so upset probably more than her coz it’s part of the Care Bears collection I got her before she was even born.

Oh no my pink baby got lost!!

I absolutely ADORE these two photos of her – I didn’t tell her to pose but she walked right over to be near the horse and started smilling away.

Please ignore the alcohol menu next to her, lol, not the most appropriate thing for a child to pose next to but really our focus was the horse!!

She spotted a local child and was trying to play with her in  7-11.

She absolutely loves the beach as well.

Coffee break at my favorite Black Canyon.

And of course her excitment almost triples up whenever we tell her she’s going swimming!

I took this on a different day from the our hotel balcony on the fifth floor and somehow she spotted her crazy mother and gave her this cutest smile.

Bliss is having the entire pool to yourself!

Decided to wrap her up in a towel and proclaimed her as a high priestess, lol. Baby said ‘ooo saree’ and I said NO, you’re a monk my child, now start behaving well and she cock-stared me so hard, lol.

Giving out her blessings, lol

Her favorite tuk-tuk ride! RM80 to go to town and back can you believe it?

Taking in the scenery.

Any guesses where this is? Ahem. Just look at her excitment pointing out to what she wants to have!

Woaaah mommy’s ice cream is wayy better than mine!

I could just stare at you all day long brown baybeh.

Saying bye to some random lady at the bakery.

Relaxing like a boss on the way back to our hotel. Her battery was slightly low as this point too after 2 hours of shopping.

I love this photo of both parent carrying their toddlers.

Don’t you love her outfit? I know I do, coz I picked it out myself, heh.

Sup?! We’re back at mom’s favorite place at Black Canyon coz it’s the only stinky restaurant in this area that has aircon!!

A stroll on the beach before we were greeted by rain! We ran for shelter to a supermarket and even that act made her so happy, kids! Believe it or not, there’s only TWO photos of me from this trip coz I was too busy taking photos of my princess. And besides, I walked around mostly in my wet hair coz of the hot weather so the last thing I wanted to do was to be photographed. Contemplated walking around without makeup as well but decided there’s only so much ugliness the husband will be able to take, lol.

Always a BIG smile for mommy-her-personal-photography-who-can-be-slightly-annoying-sometimes but surely she will appreciate these photos when she’s older :D  I hope. Well maybe not the ones of her in a bathtub and towel but you get the jist of it.

Last week, we took off on our annual cousin’s trip (looks like it’s becoming a tradition, heh) up North for a makan makan (foodie) gastronomical delight and came back fatter and heavier because of all the good food we rewarded our bodies with. Or tortured whichever way you look at it

We decided to go on a weekday from Thurs-Sat to avoid the traffic that is known in Penang Island. The last we went to Penang was over 3 years ago!

Clear roads until can speed sleep on it.

This was also the highlight of our trip – checking into a gorgeous 5 bedroom villa in Ferringhi overlooking the ocean.

Everyone does not want me telling the whole world (FINE, whoever who reads this damn blog) where this is because it’s fairly new and basically a house owned by an expat so if you MUST know, email me I should warn you it’s fully booked for the next 3 months apparently

Ground floor

1st floor

2nd Floor

Our bedroom

Stairs leading up to heaven the third floor

And of course the view:

Collectively using my Photogrid App, ahem. Place is a whole lot more gorgeous in person I promise.

Of course we cheered to that coz it was me who did most of the planning/booking for the trip

One round of Baileys and Whiskey coke for the husband coz he’s the odd one out…non-cousin

Roshan being all posey outside our home. Everyone was super impressed with this villa. *Pats own back* for always finding great places at such a bargain

Just 1 minute walking distance to the beach, which wasn’t that great a beach but will do.

Typical Malaysian – fully cloth to the beach to avoid sun but I think it’s mostly to hide the tonne of layers of fats underneath it

6 feet = 6 cousins, which means we had to drive 2 cars after scrapping the idea of renting a MPV coz it would have cost us at least RM1k, insane or what??

If I had to rank good food by state, Penang would win Silver after Malacca and that says ALOT

BabySis swears by Line Clear whenever she comes here so off we went as our FIRST meal in Penang.

It’s literally located in an alley. And despite the high turnover of people, service was excellent!

The food was orgasmicly good but the environment might not be the cleanest but hey we’re still alive today and damn food was so good we had it as our LAST meal in Penang as well.

Round one – it’s all in the curries babeh.

Round two as we exited the Island. Hubby looking so sad already. Or he could be tired coz he did all the driving, lol.

Found a random stall that sells the bear from Mr Bean series (Sairah’s fav) and we got the little one this….he actually walked around town carrying that bear, haha…things a father will do for their daugther!

Then we had the usual hawker food fare in Gurney Drive Food Court

The boys did some shopping in Ferringhi area.

The next day, BabySis suggested we live it up in Tree Monkey which is slightly ‘atas’ that overlooks the ocean.

Yes they ALL bought caps! This photo almot feels like a promotional photo  for an Indian rap video perhaps?

Indian Boyz!

The view was absolutely to die for.

Not the cousin…….but the ocean

And naturally the food wasn’t that bad either despite the close to RM20 per dish range.

My Thai Nasi Lemak. Food here is generally toned down for Mat Salleh taste so feel free to ask them to spice it up if you wish. Overall, it was a good experience to dining here.

Hubby suggested a drive about in Teluk Bahang, which is the other side of Penang and definitely less touristy so we took a LONG drive literally cutting through  the island.

By then we were famished and went back into Georgetown into the alleys to look for food!! Notice how fat people will use any excuse to look for food? So yea, the driving around the island for an hour made us hungry okie!

The most famous cendol in Penang apparently. But taste wise I think nothing beats em cendol from Malacca. 

This was our tea time ’snacks’ that we tapaued in the dirty alleys of Penang to savour in our swanky villa, ahem.  

In the end, this was our ‘haul’, lol.

Sweet crunchy Goreng Pisang from the roadside (had to scream for hubby to brake the car and pull over the busy street so I could get down, lol), Assam Laksa and Char Keow Teow.

And sweet sweet Rojak with super thick sweet sauce!

Roshan showing his non-existent muscles that popped up after eating all that snacks, hahaha.

Feeling absolutely stuffed we opted out for some Northern Indian food for dinner and we discovered Enca Cafe located at the end of Ferringhi Road just nearby Hard Rock Cafe. I didn’t take photos coz to be honest it was just a normal looking place (that was also cheap too!) and we weren’t expecting much. In the end, the Northern Indian food ( in particular the butter chicken, masala chicken and naans) blew us away!!! Go try them if you’re ever there.

Hanging out near Gurney Drive at night around 2 a.m like a bunch of kutus. But we weren’t as bad as the couple who were fondling each other in their car!

Said car on the right, hubby trying to be coy into seeing what they were doing! Where are the enforcers when you need them eh?

With that, on Saturday after a FULL tummy, we left the island feeling full (what else!) and a little sad that our road trip had come to an end.

I declare this his Justin-Bieber-wannabe-scumbag look, LOL

And when I got home I was greeted by a 1kg increase in weight by the weighing scale (and also Sairah was happy to see us of course)…..but that’s okay, coz from what Mom tells us, her dad aka our grandfather used to say ‘Eat and Be Happy’ and used it as his motto in life…….and I think he’ll be super proud of his fat grand-kids coz that’s exactly what we did on this trip. It was a total food coma!

Happy happy happy as can be!!!

P.s: If anyone got their own Penang food recommendation/must-eats, shoot and share away

Woot! Succesfully blogged three days in a row coz I have lots of back-log posts, am I proud of myself or what *pats back*

Anyway,  this is our Genting trip in early Feb. It was a free stay courtesy of Genting Highlands in conjunction of hubby’s birthday (world card member yo) so we decided to go on a weekday hoping there would be less people and we were right Best time ever to go seriously.

Though we hate First World Hotel we still stayed there coz well it was FREE  so cannot complain

Refuelling and filling our tum tums with lunch first. I really love this Pocoyo hoodie on her, thanks Dhash

Last year, when she not even 1.5 years, we opted to do the indoor theme park where they catered more for the kiddies but now that she’s another year older, we decided to check out the outdoor theme park with her and that was a whole lot more FUN. GH was suprisingly cold this time around which was a very good change considering how hot KL has been for the past few weeks.

We started off with the Carousel coz hey everyone loves the carousel. Free kisses for the little one.

Family photo with most of daddy’s face missing.

And this was in her favorite tea cup – a ride she has fallen in love with after our trip to Hello Kitty Town.

You can tell the weather was cool from the mist high above. It got even super cold at night! Good thing I actually packed a few thick  jackets for the little one. As usual mommy and daddy didn’t even bother with any jackets coz we love the cold so much. Plus we got super thick elephant skin wan.

Speaking of which I got to ride on an Elephant, one too many times!  Though I realized, with my hair flying like that, I look like a lil witch sitting on her stick elephant, lol – off to Salem dumbo – I got em lil magic potions to brew!

Bye bye mommy…I”m off to Bali

And we’re bacccck.

We even took turns to go on the more adult rides…gotta make full use of our outdoor tickets right? And another tip: get your tickets ONLINE coz it’s at least 30% cheaper. We paid ours for a mere RM32 each compared to RM54 if you buy it on site.

Daddy’s turn.

Might as well cam-whore as we wait for daddy…

Oh look a snail centipiede…bye suckers, enjoy your slower-than-sail ride up there Seriously slowest ride ever in the GH. Ask me how I know coz we had to accompany our dad in that ride once before since he’s afraid of the fast ones.

Waiting for our antique car ride. This was the only ride where we waited for 10 minutes. Everything else didn’t have a line and because of that we got to go on it a few times. Bliss.

Hubby trying hard not to ram into the car in front. And interestingly enough, this old Uncle from India who started chatting with hubby while lining up actually thought we’re….get this, CHINESE. Ignorance never fails to entertain us sometimes

I love the color play on this photo…..almost looks photoshopped, but it’s not – just awesome photography from mom

Yup waiting to go on another ride, batteries might be low at this point but it always reaches its peak when she’s on the ride itself.

The Elephant ride is probably her second favorite ride in this theme park coz you can control how high and low dumbo goes. You can also drop it unexpectedly which I did one too many times.

Daddy off on a roller coaster ride….

While the little one makes do with the antique car to keep her entertained.

We only checked in after our theme park visit and even then it only took a mere 5 minutes to check in via the kiosk. I have no idea why people painful take numbers and line up for hours just to check in manually in First World Hotel. But I’ll say this – their room sucks, really felt like staying in a pigeon hole but did I mention it was free?

After a good sleep (had to wake her up coz she was snoozing well into 6ish) we went for dinner with hopes of having the chicken spaghetti in my favorite restaurant when we noticed it has been replaced with a new one called Bubbles & Bites. Portion of food served here is HUGE so it’s best to share and the bill only came up to RM55, inclusive of a BIG pizza (try their cream sauce pizza – really yummeh), a plate of fries, iced chocolate and hubby’s alcoholic drink….cheap much?

It got even more cold at night, plus it was raining so was a lil bummed out we couldn’t walk outside.

But no worries thank god for the indoor theme park :)  Even Angry Bird approves, haha. 

Angry bird on her bike

Hubby looks like a bad boy on a bike, for once :wink:  We actually spent RM40 on the games but come to think of it I have no idea why we did it coz she’s only 2 and even if the games didn’t work I don’t think she would have realized it, lol. But doesn’t matter….she had a blast nevertheless, slept really well that night.

And she scoreeeeeeees!

Well no, not really.

The next morning – missy woke up with a HUGE smile plastered on her face and that was a priceless moment right there.

It was about 16 degrees that day which meant we were all bent on just walking outside to enjoy the cool fresh air before heading back.

Looking at these photos and then comparing it to the photos taken last year while we were there makes me realize how much my baby girl has grown, as a person and in length too of course, hah.

See, so grown up until can reach and push her own stroller.

Yes it’s the same jacket from last year coz it still fits

Come at me wind, come at me!

Overall we had a more pleasant trip this time, maybe because it was a non-peak season which I so love! Weather was so welcoming as well. Total trip only cost probably RM200 – our cheapest trip yet, lol. But the look on Sairah’s face the entire time – PRICELESS.

P.s: And here’s a big shout out to Nimi (hope I got your name right) who came up to me during lunch while we were there. She used to read my blog and found my earlier post useful for her trip to GH. Sorry if I appeared lost coz hey it was my first time ever having a reader come up to me so I didn’t know how to react, lol. Hope you had a blast with your son as much as we did