Trip to Kuching

happy birthday, ah chor

@ Jong's Crocodile Farm

city tour

@ Fairy & Wind Cave

@ Sarawak Cultural Village

Finally the most awaited day arrived, our family trip to Kuching, Sarawak. Mummy worked half day on Mon morning and fetched Emeryn from nursery at 1pm. We went home and mummy insisted Emeryn to take a nap before heading to the airport. But eventually she failed to sleep. Perhaps over excited over the trip. Mummy continued with some last minutes packing and we drove to Pekaka at 4.30pm. Mummy helped daddy with his luggage packing and at 5.15pm granny fetched all of us to the airport. We took a quick meal at Mc Donalds upon reaching the airport and we boarded the flight at 6.30pm. We touched down at Kuching Airport at 8.30pm and made some arrangement with the car rental personnel. After much hassle trying to operate the gps, we reached Tune Hotel at about 10pm. We went for supper before checking in to the hotel. All of us were extremely tired upon reaching the hotel room and slept almost immediately after taking our showers.

The next morning, we left hotel at 8.15am and we went for breakfast before heading to our first destination, the Sarawak Cultural Village. Daddy had chicken rice and mummy had kolo mee. We reached the Sarawak Cultural Village at about 10am with the reference from the gps. Entrance fee for both mummy and daddy are RM60each. We visited the Bidayuh Longhouse, Iban Longhouse, Penan Hut, New Orang Ulu Longhouse, Melanau Tall House, Malay House and Chinese Farm house. We watched the Cultural Show at 11.30am and it was an eye opener for all of us. Emeryn got a hand tattoo and mummy bought a bracelet for her at SCV. We left for lunch at about 2pm at Kampung Buntal. After our sumptuous lunch, we drove to Bako National Park. We took some wrong directions before reaching our final destination at about 4pm. Emeryn was sleeping in the car while daddy was driving. It was running late when we reached Bako, thus we were unable to catch the shared boat to the national park. It is very pricey to have a chartered boat, so we decided to call it off. We drove back to the hotel and upon reaching Waterfront, we took a boat across the river. We tried the famous layer cakes and decided to get it on the last day before we depart. We went back to the hotel to refresh ourselves before going to The Spring Supermarket. It is the biggest supermarket at Kuching in fact. Mummy bought daddy a pair of jeans for his birthday gift. We shopped for a short while before having our late dinner next to Tune Hotel later the evening. It was another hectic and tired day.

We started our 3rd day rather late the next morning. Again we had our breakfast before starting our journey to Bau to visit Fairy Cave and Wind Cave. It was a long drive for us. By 12.00pm we left Bau and headed to the Jong’s Crocodile Farm & Mini Zoo. We spent about 2hours there and we were amazed by the huge number of crocodiles there. Then we went to Semenggoh Orang Utan and we witness the feeding of orang utan. Surprisingly the orang utan were let free and ain’t kept in the cage. It wasn’t a pleasant trip as it was raining half way through. We left at about 4pm and we gave a ride to two foreigner lady since it was raining heavily and we are also heading to the same direction. Emeryn slept on mummy’s arm throughout the whole journey back to the hotel. We had our second meal of the day at the open air market where we tried the ang tao peng and sio bee. In the evening, we drove around the town area where we snapped some photos at the Cat Monument. We planned to drive over to Astana but we failed to find our way there. We drove back to the hotel and called it another day.

Our last day at Kuching started at across the river where we bought 1 dozen of layer cakes and hike to the Dewan Undangan Negeri. Unfortunately we were unable to visit the Fort Magherita as we needed to check out at 10am. We checked out from the hotel and returned the rented car. We had our breakfast next to Tune Hotel and left our luggage at Tune Hotel. We begin our city tour on our own feet. Another episode of heavy walking. After the city tour, it was the shopping time. We walked to three different shopping complexes and had our lunch at Mc Donalds. Mummy bought a tee shirt for Emeryn. It was 5.30pm when we had our dinner before leaving to the airport. We took the shuttle bus to the airport and it was only 3 of us on the shuttle bus. Emeryn was too tired and slept throughout the journey and continued her sleep in the airport while waiting for the flight boarding. Our flight was on 8.55pm and finally we reached Penang at 10.40pm, 15mins earlier than scheduled. Granny fetched us from airport and we bought supper to Pekaka. We finally reached home at 12.30am.

Mummy and daddy started work the next day, Friday. Same goes to Emeryn, started going to the nursery on Friday. Mummy brought her to the replacement music class on Sat morning. In the afternoon, daddy drove us to Sungai Petani to visit his client and we bought a cake from Tesco in view of ah chor’s birthday. It was a family affair-birthday celebration at home. We ended up with two birthday cakes as granny bought another cake for ah chor too. Emeryn sang birthday song and again she blew off the candles.

On Sunday morning, daddy accompanied us to the toy library. Emeryn returned the books she borrowed a week ago and we spent an hour there. Daddy drove us for lunch after that and later we went home for emeryn’s afternoon nap. We visited por por and ah kong as usual later in the afternoon.