Off to Kota Bharu

We had some breakfast (which was some delicious fruit) on the deck whilst savouring the magnificent view of the sun rising up into the sky. Some chickens accompanied us by jumping onto our deck and scaring Atti and Leo, so we threw rambutan seeds on to the gravel down below so the chickens would jump down.

beauty

sunny

sunrise

cute

 

After breakfast we went for a little snorkel on the beach. Ella’s Dad brought his classic motorbike with a side cart to the farm and we had a ride around the place. The motorbike was very original and it could go super fast.

bye

atti

vrrrooommm

Later, Ella showed us a bee farm and it was so cool learning how bees made honey. The bee lady gave us samples of fresh unprocessed honey straight from the bee hive.

whats in there?

tiny fish

cool bees

awesome

taste test

buzz

inside the HIVE!

Then it was time to set off on our long journey to Kota Bharu. We entertained ourselves by dressing up pinky (my orangutan teddy), mum took a great photo of the view whilst inside our car.

Hairstyle no.2

Hairstyle no.1

cool

When we got there, our room is beautiful. It has a wonderful view of Kota Bharu.

wow

high

lobby

lobby

super hotel

bedroom

Last but not least, we had a scrumptious margarita pizza for dinner. The waitress gave us some free ice cream because she thought Atti was cute.

me

leo

 

thanks for reading

lily xxx

 

 

To the other side….

Pretty short one today, as we are baggaged from the long drive. We had a decent breakfast of eggs at a nearby cafe, then set straight off.

The journey took us across the vast expanse of forest and palm oil plantations of the Malaysian interior. Total distance of over 430km, which took us most of the day to cover.

Was very much worth it when we arrived however, as our new guest house is stunning, and is only a car journey induced, crippled wobble away from the beach.

Will show you all more tomorrow.

See you soon 🙂

 

Bye Johor, Hello Malacca

We had some fun in the pool this morning for only half an our because it started to rain. The pool was on the top floor, with a four foot edge that drained all the water and led to a ledge for better view of the harbor. Got quite spooky when the storm came in, as you could not see far at all!

We then set off for Malacca, the car ride took three hours and was very quiet on the road. We entertained ourselves by playing ninjas (again!) and then fell asleep.

We arrived at the guest house, which is on one of the tiny streets of Malacca town, just on the river. The town is beautiful, and is cut in half by a river with a number of pretty bridges.

We took a walk over to a very popular north Indian food place. While it looks like we had dinner in a car park, the food is stunning, and we gobbled the lot, washed down with mango lassi.

After tea, we had a wander through the streets, particularly the bustling market places and food stalls of Jonker Street. We will be going back, as there was so much to take in! Expect a more detailed explanation of this carnage later.

We finished up the day with a lovely ice cream and coffee by the river just 20 feet from our guest house, with river cruises and people bustling by as the sun set.

Finishing today on a shot of Leo looking out wistfully on the incoming storm

See you all soon 🙂

Lego Theme Park

Sooo, today was theme park day, and we were there at 10am just as the park opened. The map above details all of the rides and things we saw, we pretty much nailed it, as we didn’t leave until 6:30pm!

Lily’s favorite thing was the Dragon Coaster, which was the big, fast, roller-coaster at the back of the park. Leo’s was the Driving School, as he got to race Lil around the roundabouts. Atti’s highlight was the green plane he rode in (and we will never mention the bouncy drop thing again….) Pics below of these rides.

Dragon coaster

Castle (obvs)

Last carriage!

Plane ride

Plane ride

Cars

Wrong side of the road!

This bouncy drop thing looks fun….

…GET ME OFF!!

We rode on loads of other rides, met a live Hari Raya Frankenstein (??), caught a ninja show, sat in a big lego train, shot lasers at Egyptian mummies,  and posed with a bunch of Lego models, including Darth Vader (note the baddie faces).

A Gallery of Baddies

Ninja Show

Frankie

Cars

Cars

Models

Lil

Rope Climb

Rope Climb

Rope Climb

Lil

We also acquired a set of ninja accessories, which led to a pretty diverse display of ninja acrobatics from Leo in particular. Some are featured below!

Ninja Leap

Ninja Lunge

Wolf Stab

Spinning Ninja

Ninja Swing

Ninja War Face

We recorded a little birthday song for the kid’s Nana, we hope you like it Anne!

Some more generally nice photos from today…

Boys

Boys

Beard

Lil

Leo

Joust

Gang

Smiler

Smiler Snr

Munching

 

Finally, we’ll leave it for today with a pic of Atti hiding from dinosaurs.

“There be Dinosaurs”

See you all soon 🙂

Day One : To Malaysia….

Welcome to Masters Summer Vacation 2016!

Forgive our faces, it was an early get up for the holidays, and the sun was super bright.

Will be a short first post, as it is late, and it has been a fair bit of travelling. Set off from home in the car, and barrelled it to Miri Airport (about 2hrs away).

Pics of car related carnage.

Pics of car related carnage.

We then hopped on a 2hr flight from Miri to Johor Bahru (better known as the location of LEGOLAND!!).

Plane related carnage.

Plane related carnage.

Our plane

Our plane

Plane related carnage.

Plane related carnage.

Grabbed a taxi with our endless kilos of luggage, to the Harbor area of Johor. Our first hotel is located right on the front of a developing trendy harbor, which is full of shops, arty places and bars. Few stock photos here, will take some in daylight tomorrow.

Only had a quick trot around, and grabbed a meal at the massive (and gorgeous) restaurant in the hotel. Will be sure to take some more snaps of this tomorrow, after the water-park.

Here we are chilling at the end of the day, with some free cake…

Chilled

Cake Note

Free Hotel Cakes

Catch you all later 🙂