Butterfly farm we go

This was the second time we brought Ethan to the Butterfly farm. Last time, he was FOC but not for this round. We showed our IC card and Jusco card to get the the discount. Adult is RM8.00 and Ethan is RM4.00.

We tried to make an early departure from house but yet we still late. We only arrive around10.00 am in the morning. The weather was good. The purpose of this trip was to let the kids have some fun.

Ethan gets to see lots of different kind of insects beside the butterfly.

The fun part for Ethan in the whole trip was getting to chop the stamp on the brochure. At first daddy held his hand but later he wanted to do by himself. He even asked us to use the stamp on his hand like what his cousin sister did.

Can travel soon?

Today, daddy was bugging mother about his expiring mileage in the Singapore airline. Daddy said that it will expire about 20k miles in coming July and more in September month. Mother told Daddy that there would be a two weeks school holiday in beginning of June. Now where should we bring Ethan to travel? In mother's mind got three places i.e. Hong Kong, Perth and Japan. Which place is suitable still under consideration. We will consider the weather and the transport since we are bringing Ethan along.

Ethan visited the Kellie's Castle

We have made the decision to visit the Kellie's Castle since yesterday. We have checked out of the hotel before noon time. When we arrived at Batu Gajah, it was already 12.30pm. So we had a yummy lunch first at my brother in law's favorite family restaurant.

We headed towards the castle after we have had our lunch. Wow, the castle was awesome and beautiful. Only one things no good is the weather was too hot. What to do it was in the middle of the afternoon. Try to comfort ourselves that hot sun means that we can take nice photos. We bought the entrance ticket at RM4.00 per person (Malaysia citizen price) and free of charge for the kids.

We brought along the umbrella when we walked into the castle. By the time we walked into the castle, rossy cheek was shown on Ethan's face. He was sweating a lot. We took some photos at the corridor of the castle and outside. We visited the rooms one by one.

Mummy and Ethan only walked until level 2 and daddy himself explored the the top level. Mummy didn't want to bring Ethan as the instruction said that it is a bit dangerous for kids. We waited in one of the pavilion nearby the castle for daddy.

Before we left the castle, we took a lot of group photo or family photo with the castle. We didn't spend too much time at the castle. It was too hot and everybody was sweating and wanted to go home.

Overall we were satisfied with the trip. Maybe will visit again when Ethan has grown up few more years later.

Hot spring

At first we did not plan to affect Ethan's school day but after some consideration of the price of the hotel, we let him "ponteng" the class for one day. If we stay during the weekend, we will need to pay RM220 per day but now we only pay RM135 per day. The difference is so huge so we sacrificed Ethan's school day. So bad the parents.

We arrived at the hotel around 2pm just in time for us to check in. The room was huge and we taken a rest for a while before we explored around the area. At first we just walked around from hotel to the hot pool. Wah! It was quite far away and the weather was hot. We sweat a lot and we planned not to walk back again to the pool after changing the swimsuit. We have to walk back to hotel to change the swimsuit then daddy drove the car to the destination.

The water was really/superbly hot. We just stood beside and already can felt the heat coming out from the pool. Daddy brought Ethan to the other side of the pool and headed back after a while. We let Ethan play at the pool side so daddy can walk to the other side.

We headed back to hotel after having had fun at the pool. Had our bath and gotten ready for dinner. Ethan had fallen asleep on our way to dinner. He missed out the dinner. Daddy held him in sleeping position while enjoying the salted chicken. Ethan only wakes after we finished our dinner and was on our way back to the hotel. Ethan only get to drink the milk before he slept once again.

The next day, we are headed to restaurant to have our breakfast. Not bad the food. We took some photos in the morning catching the fresh air after breakfast. We walked back to the hotel to change into our swimsuit again, this time we walked because of the good weather.

We went to the cool pool first before we enter the hot pool. We were so bad luck, the cool pool just shut down starting today for maintenance. No wonder yesterday got so many people came to enjoy and the hotel rate was lower. We just hang around before we walked to the hot pool.

This round the hot pool was not so hot compared to yesterday. Was it because the cool morning air? We assumed that it is. Ethan enjoyed the splash again in the pool.

After the pool, we headed back to the hotel to have a bath, it was time to get ready to check out at 12pm. Before we left we took group photo in front of the hotel.

We headed back to Penang direction but we wanted to visit the Kellie Castle before ending our trip.

The caves in Perak

We have waited for this moment. Yes, "Cuti Cuti Malaysia", we seldom have trip in our own country. So far we only brought Ethan to Taiping Zoo and some Penang attractions. This round was our first step.

We started our journey at 9.00am from Penang and we stopped in Ipoh to visit some caves and have our lunch. We chosen the Sampao Cave as our first attraction. We bought some vegetables for kids before entering the cave. Ethan gotten to feed the tortoise. We spent some time in this cave then we headed to the other.

Ethan showed his bad mood before we left the first cave.For the second cave, mummy did not really enter it because of the smoke from the joss stick. Daddy brought Ethan in. They only stayed a while inside and we headed to the third one. It was hot and we only taken a few photos before we left.

We headed to have our lunch at the famous restaurant "Fu San". Because it only serve Dim Sum and we just had Dim Sum this morning in Penang so we only order 3 different types of porridge.