Friday, November 29, 2024

Ipoh Trip 2024

We hadn't gone to Ipoh for a while.  Made a trip there the last school holidays.

When the kids were small, I figured they'd enjoy holidays enough without us (actually me since hubby never minded spending!) forking out for expensive hotels.  Now they are big enough to appreciate luxury and we adults are less hardy, time to splurge a little.  

Booked Haven at over rm700 a night (shy to say this is our most expensive accommodation to date!).  Put a picture from the net first... the setting was beautiful.


So glad the rainy weather cleared up enough for us to go to the pool, which was the highlight of this hotel.

Hello from the heated jacuzzi!

From the infinity pool

Hubby normally chills by himself in the apartment.  This time we managed to persuade him to come into the pool.  
  
Hello from all of us! 
(still in the heated pool)

I loved the nature setting of this place.  There was a private trail of 15-20mins easy walk.  

Sign says do not feed the monkeys

The booking listing wasn't the clearest.  It would have been worth the higher rental if our balcony had faced the magnificent limestone hills. 

The apartment itself was nice, spacious.  But as reviews mentioned, it was not super clean.  SE found a potato chip fragment lodged against the coffee table leg when we arrived and kept harping on it.  The next day after housekeeping... the chip was still there.  

My favourite thing... the Coway water dispenser!  Hot water, cold water at the press of a button!  No need to even boil water!  Hehe.

Mummy made me stand here

But we agreed the place wasn't worth a return visit.

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Balloon Bunny

Another balloon post.  I'm impressed by these crop of clowns who can make figures different from the usual ones.

A special one please

I really like this Bugs Bunny!   It's so big too.  SE... not so much.  She was wracking her brain on what to do with it.

I got this bunny

I do not like it

Hold it Jojo!

She managed to farm it off to a random small girl.  And spent the rest of the visit looking out for that girl, so that she could quickly escape in case the girl tried to return the bunny.  HAHAHA.

Oh ya SE wears specs now.  A few years (I count a total of 5 years) hiatus from the far-sighted specs she started to wear at 4yo. 
 

Monday, November 4, 2024

18th Anniversary

Hubby and I don't always celebrate our wedding anniversary.  Earlier years maybe, later ones... even I sometimes totally forget.  It has been 18 years, how time flies!

Just a quick post to remember... We tried out Iberico Kitchen this year.  Yeah of course with the 2 kiddos.  :)  

Ribs, pizza and other pork dishes

Check out these piglets!

Food was all right, wouldn't bother to return.  I was quite excited to see Chloe.Co on the same row.  We popped in after lunch for cake, cookie and crombolini.

Just a snack

Food also all right - a little pricy and not that great.  Also a 'wouldn't return'.

At least we checked out two new places.  :)