The trip sucked to say the least .... this is what u get when you book things last minute and on the fly. Plus it is M after all ... what did I expect?
I shall complain about the bad stuff shortly.
The weather was superb ... nice and cool .. well, we were high up in the clouds on a mountain .. and the girls did enjoy the rides at the indoor and outdoor theme park :) and funnily enough, they didn't mind the long coach journey ... Emily was just really content to sit next to me .. Lauren was happy that she was allowed to play her Leapster 2 for as long as she wanted and Calista was just happy that she was on my lap most of the time she could get her milk ANYTIME .. lol. I didn't want her hollering the bus down so she got milk the minute she made any kind of "eh eh" sound .. Emily would switch on her Leapster and play on it for about 20 minutes then she would knock out for 2 hours or so ... get up .. look around, switch on her Leapster and then knock out again after 20 minutes .. lol .. it was really easy. She didn't even ask for food.
Now I shall complain ...
Firstly, I forgot I hated long bus journeys ... I am ok with long car trips .. after all, we did long road trips every other month when we were in the States ... our longest being a 28 HOURS NON-STOP (well, we stopped for food and pee breaks) road trip to Disney World in Florida ... plus we had a decent sized MPV there so it was comfy .. I am ok with taking over the driving even when it's pitch black outside ... but sitting in that coach .. it almost killed me. It really didn't help that the scenery outside SUCKED. So yes, 6 hours was really horrible for me. The absolute worst thing was that the day we got back, hubby and I were down with fever. BOTH OF US. He was worse off .. he had food poisoning. I had the chills while I was on the bus .. I nearly died. I KID U NOT. lol. I was huddling under my nursing cover with Calista .. poor baby was sweating it out under the cover with me ... Hubby was in the front seat .. quietly suffering and was in no shape to even hold Calista for a while .. so I suffered through that rough patch where I had the chills.
Secondly, we had to wait. We waited 3 hours to check into our hotel. YES, 3 hours. There were 200 people in the queue .. the numbers were in running order and we were number 7357 ... when I looked at the board they were serving q number 7144 or so. I nearly died. The guy there informed me that it would be at least a 1.5 hours wait. He was wrong. Blardy hell. Then on the day we left, we had to check out at 12pm ... guess what time we were to report to the bus terminal? --- 3pm. Again, this was our fault for booking so last minute. First World Hotel is the biggest hotel in the world in terms of the number of rooms they have .. which is 6000 odd. OF COURSE THE WAITING TIME TO CHECK IN WOULD BE LONG GIVEN THAT IT'S SUCH A BIG HOTEL. Strangely enough, the queues for most of the rides at the theme parks weren't that terrible. quite ok in fact .. I figure most of the people who go to Genting go for the casinoes and not the theme parks.
Thirdly, the food at Genting sucked. Yes, even Macdonalds and Pizza Hut. We realized really quickly that Emily didn't want to eat the rice there ... I think it's cos they used Malaysian rice ? .. it's really different .. not the Thai long grained rice we have ..and they prepare it in such a way that it's grainy and not soft and fluffy .. it tasted quite awful .. and so even though we tried a number of different places, Emily just refused to eat. We finally had to eat at Pizza Hut for dinner that night .. and then Macs the next so that she would eat something. We wanted to try the few places we had heard of from friends that supposedly has good food but we didn't get a chance ..
Next, I am reiterating NOW .. I am never travelling again without my maid. Here she was, really bored the whole time we were away .. she only went our once .. cos I gave her money for food and she returned more than half back to me. AND there I was suffering. I had to take care of 3 kids under the age of 5 .. everytime we got back to the room, I was so dead tired yet I had to bathe them and brush their teeth AND it took me ages to get them ready to go out ... and before you say .. "they're your kids what?!" .. WHATEVER MAN .. that's why I have my maid to help me ... When we got back, it was a big relief to just lie in bed and suffer .. while my trusty maid got the kids ready for bed then in the morning when I got up, EVERYTHING in all my bags and suitcases were neatly kept away (in the proper places) or put in the wash. My maid is indeed a gem. I regretted listening to my hubby who didn't want to bring her cos he wanted it to be just US. While I understand that .. HE didn't understand that it was just not possible for one person to take care of all of them ... at times, when Emily was cranky, she wanted to sit in the stroller and she would insist that I push her. So I carried Calista in her sling and pushed Emily in the stroller. It was really tiring cos Calista is already past 6kg ..
A holiday? More like POW camp for me. LOL :)
