KL Day 5: Port Dickson and Home

It was the last day of our precious holiday. Sob, I didn't want to come home.

The room only had a king size bed and the 4 of us huddled for the night. Daddy Lim said that he didn't sleep well and took over the whole bed after the kids had woke up.

What did the rest of us do? We enjoyed our book at the balcony, with the sun and the breeze. What a nice morning.

I couldn't help but snapped a picture of the pool and the hotel.

We read for a while until Daddy Lim's hungry tummy woke him up and he hurried us for bfast. The selection was the most limited out of the 4 bfasts but it was better than having to find food outside of the hotel.

I thought that the kids would want to have a last swim before we headed home. They were lured by table tennis instead.

They were super bad at the game actually. Their game consisted of one person hitting the ball over and the receiving person running after to pick up the ball. Still, they had so much fun and were so proud when the receiving person could actually hit the ball back.

They stopped only when they could no longer endure the thirst and had to go back to the home for water.  Zaky then headed back with Daddy Lim to continue the table tennis game while I brought Lil Shauna to the beach to look for seashells.

We could see a storm coming. Dark clouds covered the sky.

But we continued as there was no rain.

We stayed on the beach until we could smell rain. It was high tide and the image of being dragged into the sea was in my mind. I was scared by my imagination and hurrying pulled Lil Shauna back. Daddy Lim and Zaky happened to be looking for us and we took our last family picture.

It was drizzling when we started driving but the drive was smooth. The only irritating part was that the small roads in Port Dickson that lead to the expressway seem endless. Along the way, the cows bid us goodbye. We actually saw one of them crossing the road. Why did the cow cross the road? Haha.

We took about 4 hours to arrive back in Singapore including 1 pitstop for lunch. We stopped for lunch when the kids got restless and started fighting. Otherwise, the drive was very smooth. We also made sure that we downloaded ample sings to accompany us on the way home. I felt like I was having a 3 hours karaoke session in the car. Lol.
There was also no jam at the custom. Very good.

Overall, I would say that this is one of the better holidays that we had despite being it just across the causeway. We attributed it to sufficient planning, all thanks to the expert family travel planner, aka me. Ok lah, the kids brought us a lot of joy too. We also agreed that the recent holidays were a lot more enjoyable now that they kids are older and could appreciate a variety of activities. This is probably the start of the many Malaysia roadtrip to come. For now, I will keep my eyes on the next holiday to come. Muahahahaha.

Mummy Lim

KL Day 4: Port Dickson

Ok, effectively it wasn't KL anymore. It was interesting that we didn't really need the alarm clock yet didn't oversleep in the morning. Maybe it wasnt that tiring a holiday. On the last day in KL, we woke up to a wonderful bfast and muscle ache. My arms were nicely worked up from lugging the float at SL. Lol.

The bfast was a welcome change and the spread was so much better than Impiana hotel. We enjoyed bfast tremendously.

The kids lamented about not swimming in the hotel. We popped up to where the swimming pool was and were glad that it wasn't magnificent or it would have hurt even more. The pool lay beside an open, windy area though. Just nice for a picture before we bid the hotel goodbye.

We checked out after bfast and proceeded to our next destination: Port Dickson. We hit the road and was on the expressway shortly. Smooth!

Port Dickson was about 1 hour drive away. We would be staying at the Thistle Hotel; our 1st stay there. We arrived at Port Dickson at about 11am and the room would only be ready at 2pm. I had planned to visit the Ostrich Farm and was happy to realise that the farm was very near to our hotel. Just nice. Port Dickson is like a sleepy but HUGH town. It might mean driving for kilometers to get to a destination.

Previously when we visited Port Dickson, we rarely stepped out of the hotel, opting to nuah or swim to burn time. This is the 1st time that we actually visited one of the attractions. I was worried that the kids would be bored; we had been to so many farms and enjoyed so much nature for the past few days. My worries were unfounded.

The entrance was at RM15 per adult and RM10 per child. We both 2 bundles of leaves to feed the animals.

Despite being an ostrich farm? What greeted us 1st were hungry goats.

Interestingly, the same leaves can be used to feed the ostriches.

The staff was nice and brought out a probably tamer ostrich for the kids to touch and feed.

She even offered to help us take a family picture with the bird. But I think her photography skill quite lousy. Look at Daddy Lim's head. Lol.

Ok, the 2nd shot was better. At least I didn't marry Mr Ostrich.

It was a small farm and we thought that we would be done soon until we came to the rabbits. So cute and cuddly. The kids ended up spending a long time here.

Look at these. Baby rabbits that were less than a day's old!

Right beside to the Ostrich Farm was a Dog's enclosure. We topped up RM20 to play with the dogs. There were so many different kind of dogs, big and small. The staff said that there were 35 of them. The kids went crazy.

We spent an even longer time petting the dogs. Some of them do look like they could do some grooming but we had a good time still. The dogs were all friendly and happy to have a good scratch or rub. This husky was my favorite. Her rub was amazing soft and she was so calm.

The last part of the farm were the creepy crawlers. By then, the kids were experts; they handled the snake like it was their best friend.

The farm had a small room for art and craft and the kids spent another good half an hour doing sand art. The parents were just happy to hide in the aircon room.

Amazingly, we spent almost 3 hours in the small farm. By the time we were back in the hotel, our room was ready. Hurray!

We had lunch and hid in the room until the weather was kind enough for us to swim. The pool looked inviting from our balcony.

We did go to the beach but it was too dirty and we didn't want to swim in it. The kids tried but there weren't many seashells to pick too.

However, the beach was perfect for pictures come evening.

It was supposed to be a relaxing end to the holidays and we did relax. We fell asleep in front of the TV.

Mummy Lim

KL Day 3: Sunway Lagoon

By Day 3, nobody cares about the alarm clock anymore. Nevertheless, we woke up early enough to be on time for Sunway Lagoon! The kids had been looking forward to SL ever since it was advertised on Nickelodeon; something about Nickelodeon theme park.

Luggage, packed. GPS, set. We went on our way after bfast. All ready to go!

The roads in KL city were challenging even with the GPS. At times, we wondered if we took the right side of the split roads. The directions on the GPS looked complicated and the English pronuciation of Malay road name made it worse. There were a few of such scares but it worked out very fine. It was a good choice to choose taxi over driving for the last 2 days. Without a hitch, we were on the expressway and on our way to SL!

The kids grew more and more excited and less and less patience as we neared SL. We had to warn them to behave a few times but who could blame them?

We booked a night at the Sunway Pyramid West Hotel and it turned out to be a fairly new and big hotel. We added on a bed on top of the huge king size bed. We bought a package that comes with 2 adults and 2 children tickets. It was slightly cheaper as compared to booking them separately. We didn't enjoy the room for long before we headed to SL. Who cares about the room or bed when SL is calling?

SL was less than 5 mins walk from the hotel.

We visited the land theme park 1st. It wasn't big. The main attraction is the water theme park after all. These are only pictures that we had as the phones were kept in the locker thereafter. The locker can be opened and closed unlimited times. There was no worry about forgetting items just that the park is big and locker could be far away.

This ride was good. It was like a huge slide!

I had wished that the land theme park was bigger bcos I don't really fancy water pouring over my head or crazy slides that made my butt pain and head dizzy. I ended up enjoying the water rides very much.

The water theme park didn't start very well though. We almost took this "ghost buster show", only to escape the very last minute bcos it was actually a scream park where we had to walk through this 20 mins haunted house with zombies scaring us. My heart can take roller coaster but not this shit lah. I can imagine Zaky crying all the way too. We then went for this 5D ride that got us very wet. It was a rapid show but it just felt like they were trying to throw water at us at every opportunity. Oh well, the water was welcoming given how hot the weather was.

The map was ruined after the ride. The map didn't help much anyway. The rides were positioned in such a way that one entrance leads to different rides. We got used to the concept after a while. The fun started after the 5D show.

The only down was the need to lug big float for many of the rides. I envied so many of the girls who went to the theme park with their boyfriend and saw the boyfriends lugging the float. There I was lugging and puffing away for my kids. Poor me. My arms! But those were also the fun rides; so many of them felt like roller coasters and it also mean that I dont have to hurt my delicate butt. Woohoo! Some rides we even went 2x. There was not much q most of the time. The most popular ride required 45 mins queuing and got the kids very bored and quarrelsome. The ride was not worth the wait and pain.

The water play got us very hungry.  The park was promoting this cashless system and loading credits into the wrist tag. We eloaded RM50 only to realise that not all the snack shops accept the ecredits and RM50 cannot get us a lot of food but we survived until we got back to the locker for more money.

By the time we made it back to the locker, it was almost to the end of the trip. We rewarded ourselves with a big candy floss that disappeared into our tummies at lightning speed.

The very tired us heading back to the hotel.

We did find the last bit of strength to go to the huge Pyramid Shopping mall for dinner. There were plenty of eateries but we went to the 1st decent one bcos the kids looked like they couldn't walk much anymore.

After dinner, Daddy Lim insisted to shop and got this cap. I thought it looks good on me again. Muahahaha.

We found this Hello Kitty cafe and spurged on some cakes and coffees. It wasn't that amazing a cafe but still didn't stop my camera from clicking away.

The cake and coffee looked nice!

The kids needed to be piggybacked to the hotel room. Sleep was so easy. Before 9pm, they were both in lala land.

Mummy Lim