Kecik & Pacman’s Playground

This post is a majorly overdued post. I was suppose to do this asap but you know la - partly I got no mood to blog as often and also, when I do get in the mood, little miss muffet is awake so I have my hands tied but since the little miss is asleep, I better get on with it. [Lunch pun tak masak lagi!!]

Most of the pictures here are also on my other blog but the other ones will contain some which are not here and vice versa. It’s mainly about our first family vacation and we spent it at Parkroyal, Penang. It was a 3 days, 2 nights thingy which cost approximately [from memory] RM300+ a night. I wished we could afford Mutiara Beach [I think it was the one where Frank & Aida invited me to join them for the day and it was MAGNIFICENT!!] but alas, it was out of our reach. Maybe one day when we strike it big, we can la. :)

In general the hotel was nice and so was the pool. I had requested a king size bed but we ended up with 2 queen [?] size beds instead, AND upon checking in, I had to remind them again that we had already requested for a cot which wasn’t in the room when we checked in. So that part pissed me off a bit. Other than that, everything was pretty good and of course, I enjoyed the buffet breakfast la - who wouldn’t?? I know if my mum was around, memang rugi la coz she eats so little! *lol* Paling untung if I take my sister. ;)

Needless to say, the price of the food is outrageous as in most hotels but because we were just too tired to go out scouting for food, we settled for room service which was a very painful decision. Most of our time was spent in the pool because we wanted Arianna to get used to water and although I was a little apprehensive because I didn’t know what to expect from her seeing that this would be her first time in a pool, I should have known better. She loved it!!! Truly daddy’s girl - given the choice, I think Ted would have loved to have jumped into the big people’s pool but he couldn’t enjoy it when he did coz he kept wanting to spend time in the baby pool with her! *lol*

See…? Play until into the night! Seen here with daddy in the bigger pool.

We also managed to take a walk on the beach just before sunset and it was really nice because praise God, the weather was really good while we were there. It was kind of rainy that week but not when we were in Penang so it was really perfect timing. While on the beach, Arianna met her first horse - didn’t scare her one bit but I guess as babies, what do they know right? Surprisingly, she freaked out when Ted introduced her to waves! She hated it and cried….good thing that didn’t deterr her from enjoying her time in the pool.

This trip turned out to be many first times for Arianna - it was also her first time on the ferry. While we were in Malaysia, there was news that the gomen wanted to stop the ferry services and I freaked out because I wanted to let Arianna experience what it was like but thankfully, we were in time AND gomen decided otherwise in the end. To me, I think it would have been suicide to get rid of the ferry serives because it is one of those things which define Penang so I’m glad that they aren’t getting rid of the ferries.

All in all, I think it turned out to be a pretty good holiday for us and we are certainly looking forward to going back to Malaysia because Ted is VERY keen on re-visiting Tanjung Aru and I’m as excited as he is too! *lol*

Love this curl!

What’s for lunch, Mum? - The restaurant just around the corner from the hotel where we paid less than a fraction for what we had in the hotel, and we really stuffed ourselves here!

Despite conned into getting a so called coastel view from our bedroom - our walk on the beach to catch the sunset was well worth it!