Full Day

In all honesty, we had only one full day to spend at Penang and Sungai Petani, and Puan Anita started the day off with some kuih raya shopping kampung style. And she went bananas. Not only that the prices were reasonable, the quality was very good. In fact, she had already started to eat them already and she bought with her one whole box of cookies with her.

She did that while I was with the boys in the hotel room. When she was done, it wartime to travel to Kepala Batas. It was for lunch there and the usual trip to the spice shop. She needs all of them spices for the coming Ramadhan. Lunch was next, and we went to an old neighbor's stall in Permatang Bertam for some home-cooked goodness.

After that was all done, it was almost 2 pm. Time to travel to the island.

First stop, as requested by the boys was to visit my Grandmother's grave. It looked like the gravestones had been made, and I noticed that he stones for my Grandfather were also changed. Then it was to Pahang Road, to visit my auntie. After Zohor prayers, we decided to take a drive to Batu Feringghi. Unfortunately it started raining. So, no beach for the boys ......

In Sungai Petani

We went straight to my Aunt's place, just in time for lunch. While there, we received a call from the hotel, informing us that the room for our maid would be on a different floor to ours. Nothing major, just a bit annoying. That did not stop the lunch though.

We scrapped the plan to hit Penang tonight since Idlan looked tired. Dinner would again be at my Aunt's. In fact, Anita and I had already listed what we wanted ...... Some proper Thai food and laksa. That would be smashing. So, Penang would have to wait ....

We just checked into our hotel room, and we decided that we all should take a nap. I had my 15 minutes power nap and now am wide awake. Idlan was still up. Obviously the cough mixture did not do the trick ......

Time to Pack

So, the three night stay was coming to an end. And the boys were unexpectedly sad. They seemed to have really enjoyed the trip. Irfan said that he would write about the holidays when he goes back to school. Nerd!

Idlan was still asleep when we took our breakfast. Anita is busy cleaning up the back of the MPV for the journey home. We plan to leave just after 11, and arrive in KL in time for late lunch. We would soon be packing for tomorrow's trip up North. We have yet to book the hotel room. But I suspect it should not be a problem.

The plan was to stay in Sungai Petani, so that we would be near my auntie there. Not to mention the plan to stuff ourselves with the gorgeous food ....

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Heading To Town

I wasn't sure if it was a blessing or a pain not having cellular signal at the place we stayed. At least we had wifi. So I could still blog and keep up with twitter and Facebook, and not to mention finding out about the news.

I managed to get the odd SMS or two, but calling out or sending off SMS was still a pain. Often the message out failed. At least we would be back to civilisation tomorrow.

We were waiting for my in-laws before we head out into the town for lunch and a bit of miniature golf which the boys were keen for.

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A Nice Morning

We slept well last night with the cool weather outside. However it wasn't foggy as with the last visit we had. We hang around at the TV lounge watching movie until almost 10.30, before heading back to the room. The boys then played with their game console until late before falling asleep, only to wake up close to 9 am in time for breakfast.

As we were practically the only ones at the resort, we took breakfast a out leisure before sitting at the lounge again all morning. The boys were yet to have their shower when I wrote this. The plan was to head into the town for lunch. We were craving for some rice actually. The boys wanted to have a horse ride, then play a bit of golf. Hopefully the weather would allow for that. It had been sunny all morning.

I also spent the morning exploring the house taking photos. It was so cosy, especially the surrounding area. Plenty of room to venture for walks, and just plain relaxing ....

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