Went to a Japanese restaurant for lunch with the aunties and uncles, there were many of us and we were given a room luckily, because it means XN and DH can walk around freely.
DH was enjoying the kappa maki very much.
In a short while, the whole maki is gone! After that he went around tasting other people's food, he just want to eat everything on the table.
Look at the amount of food we ordered! Luckily we didn't waste, we managed to finish every item - YAY!
The next day, early morning. DH woke up early as usual at about 7:30am. Brought him out to a near by shop to get a prepaid phone card. When in the shop, he was really curious about the traffic and animals outside.
After breakfast, XN was writing on her exercise book as homework. DH gladly took a book and follow XN.
At the breakfast area, there are water hens coming really close. These water hens are not scared of human beings at all!
The garden view at the breakfast area was very nice as usual. Those big fishes we saw in the pond during our last trip are still there.
After the flight, the fist thing to do is to have dinner at the near by restaurant. DH likes the satay very much.
During dinner, it rained heavily. We had to wait for about 30 mins before the rain stops and we took a short walk back to the hotel back gate. We had to walk through wet sandy mud paths and avoid puddles of water on the way back through the hotel's huge garden.
We are off to Bali again. We took the afternoon flight at about 4pm. T1 is still under renovation but at least most of the shops are already open.
On the flight, the iPad works well to keep the 2 babies occupied. DH can look at the Elmo videos for a long long time!
Finally, we touched down on the island after about 2 hours of flying.
In the evening, we went to have the famous 芽菜雞. It was very very crowded, but we managed to find a place.
The 芽菜 is very crunchy. There is no where else in the country that can produce 芽菜 with this taste. May be it is the water from the Ipoh mountains that makes all the difference.
XN finished all her portion of 河粉. She wants to take a picture to show 大舅舅.
This is the most famous shop in the area!
After lunch, XN went to aunty's house to play while we went to Jusco to take a look. Aunty took XN to her friend's shop which later we went to pick XN. The shop happens to be just next to Jusco!
DH now likes to play with everyone, including taking down all the decorations in the shops.
Later in the evening, we went back to the Hotel to prepare for dinner.
Ipoh is surrounded by tall mountains. The scenery around the area is very beautiful and very different from what we see at home which is near the sea.
From the hotel room we can see the Ipoh turf club. There are horses practicing in the morning. DH and XN is very much interested to see the horses walking around their stable.During breakfast, the food is very surprisingly nice. 
DH wakes up early and they already went down with grandma for the 1st round of breakfast. By the time XN is up it is already close to 9am.
The breakfast area has a big fish pond and we can also see every floor!
We took our time to have breakfast so that it is very relaxing. Anyway, we did not really plan to go site seeing so early.
We have set up the Christmas tree again! This year, it took us 3 days because of the lack of decor items and we have to buy new stocks - the theme this year is red and silver. Nice?
In addition to the 6ft tall tree, there is also a mini tree so we have 2! XN was enjoying the entire process while luckily DH is not destroying the tree by pulling down those decor, he was throwing the balls to the floor when we were putting up the tree but he thought those were real balls. The Christmas card is hand made by XN in school.
MERRY CHRISTMAS to everyone who reads this blog and have a Blessed Christmas and Great New Year ahead!
We went out for lunch almost immediately after breakfast. We went to the usual Ipoh shops at 舊街場 for the 河粉.
