Holiday - Penang

March seems like a holiday month for us, with holidays planned out for 3 weekends in a row. Various reasons actually - Camerons was holiday with my family, Batu Gajah was holiday with hubby's family and finally Penang was to attend a friend's wedding plus a holiday just for us.

The wedding was on Saturday nite, but we decided on a 4D, 3N trip to Penang. Had lots of things planned out, food wise! On my list of "Things to Eat" were Assam Laksa, Char Kway Teow, Chee Cheong Fun, Rojak, Chendol etc etc..... also White Coffee and Kai Si Hor Fun from Ipoh. Hahha... was almost like an eating trip.

We left KL quite late on Thursday morning. After the disastrous road trip with Elyssa fretting most of the journey to Batu Gajah, I was more prepared this time. I brought along a whole bag of plastic toys that she hasn't played for in a while, cut out some carrot sticks, made 2 toasts cut out into 4 triangles, her favourite water bottle and told hubby to be prepared to stop often.

And the result? She sat in her car seat all the way to Penang and with hardly any fuss. I was sooo proud of her!!!

By the time we checked into the hotel, it was almost 6pm. We headed straight to the swimming pool. We bought her a bright orange Nemo float in Ipoh and we were pretty excited to let her use it.

But nope, she wasn't keen on it......

" I wanna get OUTTT !!!!"

Instead, she enjoyed it when I lifted her up and down from the water...

" Wheee..............this is better"

" Again, mummy, Again......"

"That was fun, mummy. Let's do it again!"

But no lar.., my arms got tired after that. We didn't stay in the pool too long cos the water was quite cold. So we continued Session 2 in the bathtub. She actually preferred the warm water in the bathtub.

" Mummy, next time take me to a HEATED swimming pool, okay?"

After that, we went out for dinner with some friends, had a slow walk along the esplanade back to the hotel (Elyssa fell asleep in her stroller) and then Zzzzz.... end of Day 1.

-to be continued-