Daddy Lim said that we didn’t have to lock the bedroom door bcos there is an always a staff on guard. I woke up and there was no staff and we didn’t lock the door. Zzzzz.
The villa is its morning quietness. It was a gloomy morning and started drizzling shortly.
All geared up and took pictures. Ooooo.. what long legs we have.
In reality..
The guide took Daddy Lim’s phone and took a shitload of videos. The ride consisted of tubing through tunnels/ canals and some of them are really low. When going through, we had to “kiap” the legs of the person behind us under our armpits and form a long train. Then we had to lie down. When going through some of the very low ones, I wondered if Daddy Lim would get stuck. He said that at times, he also worried that he would scrape his nose. 
Then, there are the open areas where we can tube freely. 
There were also a couple of small drops. 
I thought Zaky looks good in a cap with his permed hair.
It looked easy in these pictures but the ride consists on riding on many narrow and bumpy concrete paths, then go down and up crazily bumpy and narrow little paths and then over knee high murky waters covering uneven tracks. 
We had a break after that. I asked Nana if it was fun and she gave me the “hmmmm” look. She said that she didn’t want to ride alone anymore and I sat behind her for the last bit after the break. I was worried for my life. Lol. But I have to say that she is an excellent rider and brought me back safe and sound.
We all knocked out on the way back. The kids continued to nap back at the villa. The funny part was that Auntie S and the kids actually arrived before us. When we came back from the convenient stall, we found the kids napping in our room when they could do so in their own room. They napped for a good 3 hours. Tubing and ATV must be very tiring. 
Daddy Lim woke up when I was almost done with my HiiT. When we were in Genting in March this year, he still attempted to join me for morning exercises. This round, he simply made his coffee and see me huff and puff.
The villa provided us with simple bfast, served at 8am - choose between eggs in different styles, nasi goreng or mee goreng. Zaky asked me to wake him up 5 mins before bfast was served. I told him to tighten his abs and pretend to walk towards me so that I can photo him looking buff. Haha. Got abs leh.
I heard the kids had gone to bed past midnight. I duno what they were busy with. I was in lala land before 11pm. Hoho.
The drivers picked us up at 8.30am in 2 cars for the 1st activity - water tubing. The activity was in a location about 1 hr drive away. Don’t be deceived by the bright sky. It started drizzling shortly.
We climbed up and down some stairs to reach the changing point.
Then a short buggy ride to the starting point.
We were dropped off and then walked down a flight of big steps in barefoot. Ouch, ouch, ouch.
The guide briefed us about the event - we will be tubing through and down a stretch of man made canal that is about 1.5km long. What I understood is that the canal was built many years back during some war.
It was still drizzling and we imagined that the water will be super cold. We were quite right. The water was cold but tolerable. Mostly our asses got wet. The start of the tubing was through the drain hole look alike. While it looked like we were bundled up in safety gear, we were told that the water was only waist high, thus not to worry if capsized. I wasn’t worried about drowning; I was more worried of the creepy crawlers and duno what else in the murky waters.
It was another effortless activity. Lol. At the end of the activity, we had to jump off the tubing into the waist high water, then climbed out. Damn cold.
The rain got heavier and we decided not to change but headed to the provided brunch 1st.
I didn’t know food was provided and we barely burned the bfast. It was a choice or fried rice or noodles. No meat.
We got ice cream to top it off.
They have the “swing” for pictures too. We didn’t do that but the free seat in the tree.
It was very cold. I duno if it was bcos we were wet, it was raining or we were somewhere in the mountains. I think a little bit of everything. We decided that we would not change and head to the next destination - ATV.
The ATV was about 30 mins drive away. Nana made good use of time.
There was quite some waiting bcos there was some many other groups. We had time to have some hot drinks and pastry. When booking the activity on Klook, it was booking and paying by the number of pax and there was no option for single or tandem ATV riding. So when they asked us, I was so grateful; my 1st and only ATV experience with Daddy Lim over 20 years ago and it traumatised me. I couldn’t control that machine, almost banged into trees and ran into canals. I ended up riding behind Daddy Lim back to the hotel. Hoho.
So when given a choice, of course I chose to be a pillion, so did C. Hoho. Though Auntie S isn’t the most keen to ride the ATV, she didn’t have a choice and had to pillion C. In the very 1st part of the ride, I heard her screaming as she rode and with a screaming C hugging her. So funny.
We didn’t have our phone with us as it was at our own risk to keep it safe. They provided photographers but the pictures came at a price. Eventually, we paid IDR350k for 20 soft copy pictures. The pictures were very nicely taken.
I can only say that I am very glad to be a pillion and might have flipped the ATV hundreds of times if I had rode one myself. It was like they purposely didn’t repair the damaged tracks to bring more thrills to us crazy tourists. At one part, we came out of the “bear’s mouth”.
I realised that I provided a lot of entertainment values as a pillion. Nana said that it was so much more enjoyable with me screaming behind her. Even Daddy Lim said that he was lonely after I left him for Nana. Haha.
Back at the starting point, we freshened up. We were so glad that we were provided with rubber boots and didn’t have to wet our shoes. Then, we were provided with lunch again. Huh? Eat again? Another no meat meal and we were very meat deprived.
It was very unsatisfying such that we bought more pastry thereafter. Nana wasn’t very happy that Daddy Lim tried to eat for dessert.
It was only about 2pm when we ended the activities but we didn’t mind to head back after the stressful event.
All the kids napped and were finally up for dinner. We had meat. Hoho.
The last thing was to go for a massage and it only cost us about SGD15 for an hour of back and feet massage. It was good.
Again, I was barely awake by 10.30pm. I was dozing off while scrolling fb and had to ask Daddy Lim to help me put my glasses and phone away.
Good night!
Mummy Lim
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