28.12.06

Bukit Tinggi 20/12-23/12

Had a nice relaxing holiday though it was a bit cold. The combination of winter (raining season) and being 600m up in the hills made a difference in the temperature

Check in was not until 15:00 so we left after lunch. Gave the kids the chance to sleep in the car, which they did most of the trip. Basically did not do very much that day, just relaxed and went to the play ground. The swing was broken and it was very wet. So did not spend very long time there. But we managed to take this picture by the car.



Did not sleep very well cause the pillow was toooooo high (and the porridge too warm).
The kids did not realize that we were on holiday so they woke up around 6:30 as usual. So after breakfast, bathing the kids we decided to go to the sport centre. Norida and me played squash. Aida enjoyed running around in the sport complex. Mummy got Adam to sleep in the stroller. After the game Aida took care of the equipment.



Adam was still sleeping when we finished our hour. So we went to the club house/reception to let and sleep and see if they found Norida mobile phone. Aida and me went a head we started with checking the sofa we were sitting in yesterday while waiting for the key. And behold there were the mobile.
Went home to have lunch and a nap. Adam and I napped together for around two hours.
In the afternoon we went out to have a look at the rabbits at the rabbit farm. It was drizzling and Aida did not like the rabbits, so no picture of the rabbits. Aida enjoyed running around in the parking lot though.



Afterwards we went to Colmar Tropicale, another resort run by the same company but a bit fancier. They had nice Christmas decorations there.



They even had a full size ginger bread house, smelled really nice standing there.



Did not do very much more that day, except some games of cards and Boggle. Slept much better that night, used a bundled up through for head support.

Up early as usual. Watching the news on TV, rain, rain and more rain. Southern Malaysia flooded and in Noridas home town the flooding has caused the water system to shut down. No water because of too much water isn’t it ironic. The shocker of the day came in the main news though. Landslide in Munkedal Sweden just 30 km from my home town.




Must have been a drought in interesting international news or they wanted to show that Malaysia is not the only country that have problem with the weather. It was not raining in Bukit Tinggi though and as we didn’t want to stay dry we went swimming at Colmar. Little bit too cold to be enjoyable, but they had a Sauna to make up for any shortcomings temperature wise. Really nice, but they could have turned up the temperature a bit more.
Back to the apartment and lunch and another nap with Adam.
In the afternoon Norida, Aida and I went to the botanic garden and the Japanese tea house. Aida was really fascinated by the Koi fish (I prefer fury animals, but they were not available).



The plants were really nice though.



We even found a small forest of Angels trumpet, but they were not open on such a gloomy day. (That's why we look so unhappy.)



When we came back we went to the playground again. It is a nice area, with the swallows flying around.



Adam had a try at the teeter-totter.



And Aida went swinging.



After that we had enough for the day and retreated home for the night, with some card games before sleeping.

Rise and shine to the last day at Bukit Tinggi and finally no raining and quite nice and warm. Went for another morning game of squash before we tried to see some monkeys. Could just hear them though, boooring.

Went home via IKEA to get Julmust, rödkål, pepparkakor and smörgåsgurka.

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