At the gathering point, I saw that most of the hotel guest were already dressed, appearing ready to start their day. Others at least grabbed an additional jacket while we were still in our pjs with messy hair. I had forgotten to take the jackets, concentrating only to grab $$, ppts and the kids. Apparently the bag stolen saga must had scarred me. Lol. Fortunately, we weren't the worse, we saw a lady still with her hair wrapped in a bath towel, probably in the midst of her morning toilet routine and 2 others without shoes. Haha.
The Firemen arrived by the time we gathered at lobby and we were impressed by their efficiency. We waited about 10 mins before we were given the clearance to go back to room. However, the alarm kept going off intermittently thereafter. Maybe they were testing the alarm but I only wanted to check out ASAP.
We left the hotel at about 10 am and headed to Chessington South by national rail and did avoid the peak hours. We had to take an underground before changing to the rail and was worried that we would miss the train but got it all right. This whole trip was about constantly chasing after trains and planes. Lol. The journey proved to be really smooth. We were very surprised to find the train empty and almost had the entire carriage to ourselves.
Chessington South station was about 30 mins ride away. Then we had about a 10 mins walk to the resort. It wasn't difficult to get to the resort. Lil Isaac sat on the luggage while Daddy Lim wheeled him to the resort. Remembered? He was sick and tired of walking.
The hotel was right next to the theme park. We left the bags at hotel lobby as the room not ready and headed to theme park. We were all very excited.
It was a good choice to go on a Friday. The park was not crowded and mostly young kids given that it was a school day. The Qs were not long. The longest was probably 20 mins wait and some rides had no q at all. It was rides.
And more rides.
We visited the aquarium too.
Chessington Resort is a combination of zoo/ farm, small aquarium and theme park rides. They have rides that catered to young children (flying dumbo, ferris wheel, indoor playground) as well as more exciting rides (viking, roller coaster). This suits our kids perfectly bcos Lil Shauna loves thrilling rides and found baby rides boring, whereas Lil Isaac usually avoids all rides that seem anything near scary.
Time passes very easily. We left the park for our hotel when the park closes at 5 pm. While Daddy Lim checks in, the kids were well entertained at the lobby.
They also got to see the monitor lizards and even experienced strange insects!
Lil Shauna was so brave and she held the stick insect. I was more worried than her bcos I know I wouldn't be able to help her. In fact, I stood pretty far from her while she handled the insect.
Then she was even braver and handed a cockroach! This time, I stood even further. She said that the stick insect has sticky legs and the cockroach has ticklish legs. Hmm...
Daddy Lim got the keys and was told that luggage already in hotel - such good customer service. Our hotel room was on e 2nd floor. We took the lift up and found one side of the glass wall facing the zoo/ farm and we can see animals roaming. Nice.
Unfortunately, we cannot really see the zoo/ farm from our room but I didn't really mind. It is quute weird tp have animals watching us while we sleep. Lol. We had a nice and big room and the kids had their own sleeping area. Lil Shauna was very sure that she wanted to sleep in the kids' area while Lil Isaac preferred to sleep with us.
We had a nice and hot dinner at the hotel. Something considered a luxury in the expensive land of Europe. Lil Isaac fell asleep at the restuarant, but before he slept, he agreed to shower in bathtub with jiejie back in the room. So, jiejie really woke him up back in the room and they had splashing good time in the tub.
We had really tired kids and an early night. Lil Shauna did sleep in kids' area and we shifted Lil Isaac over to keep her accompany. In the middle of the night, the boy automatically walked over and hopped onto our bed. Not long after, Lil Shauna also came over bcos she had a bad dream. In the end, Daddy Lim had to go over to sleep alone on the tiny bed. The bed was so small that he couldn't even fully stretched his legs. Lol.
Mummy Lim
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