Merry Christmas 2017

Have yourself a merry little Christmas

Let your heart be light

From now on your troubles will be out of sight.

Here we are as in olden days

Happy golden days of youre

Faithful friends who are dear to us

Gather near to us once more

through the years we all will be together

if the fates allow

Hang a shining star upon the highest place

so Have yourself a Merry little Christmas now

This Christmas we spent with Oma Tine and Opa Bambang.

On the Christmas eve, we attended Thanksgiving Family Christmas mass since koko Richie and koko Tromson were performing.

Then on the Christmas day, we had lunch with Oma Tine and Opa Bambang at Chillis Restaurant, Sentosa 

After that, koko Richie and koko Tromson and papa had fun playing luge with uncle Marcel and aunty Suri and koko Jayden while Ted was taking a nap.

After he woke up, we went to Tricked Eye museum with oma Tine.

We had dinner at Malaysia Boleh Food court at Sentosa, that's the way we spent our Christmas day

Tha-De-O

Finally, he starts copying the sounds.
First, it's his own name Tha - De - O
Eventhough it's not clear yet but I know he puts an effort to it.

The second words is Car go.
When we are in the car, he will say car - go

It's an achievement eventhough it's still baby step

Way to go son !

Batu Adventure ( 2 - 9 December 2017) Part 4

On our last day at Batu, we didn't plan to go to any park. We thought that we better went back to Surabaya earlier, played in the mall and had a good rest before heading back to Singapore the next day.
But since we had a lot of time, we decided to go to Jatim Park 3, which was newly opened 2 weeks before.

And there's Dino park, we thought it's a small theme park so we decided to give it a go.
But when we saw that they had e-bike to rent out, we knew that the park was not a small one.
We rented e-bikes for 3 hours to go around the park.

At first, we were welcomed indoor museum where they had a lot of information about different dinosaur and how they were extinct, then we could ride a train where we travelled from 5 different time zones of dinosaur life.

Then we could walk around taking picture with different dinosaur and even rode the dinosaurs.
In the end, there's a small theme park for the kids to play.

It's a great park with lots of dinosaurs especially for dino's lover.

After we finished the park around 3pm, we headed back to Surabaya.
Fortunately the traffic was smooth and we reached our hotel around 5.30pm.

We had dinner at Galaxy Mall and met up our relatives Oma Erna, Oma Edith, Om Maxi and had a good rest.
The next day, we caught our flight at 10 am to Singapore.

It was a great holiday experience despite the hiccup here and there.
Thanks God everything goes well in the end.

Batu Adventure (2 - 9 December 2017) Part 3

As we wanted to let the kids experience nature and Batu was originally famous for the fresh fruits plantation. We decided to go to Kusuma Agrowisata.
They had a huge plantation, apple, orange, jambu, dragon fruit and had their own factory to process these fresh fruits become snacks or drinks.

We picked guava, apple and oranges and could eat them fresh from the tree as much as we can.

Ted loved fruits, it's like food haven for him.
After that we had welcome drink in house production and croissant as snack.

We bought some fruits chips too and it's delicious made from fresh apple sliced.

After that we went to Museum Angkut / Automobil museum where they displayed a lot of vehicles from bicycle, motorcycle, cars until aeroplanes and helicopters from time to time.
And they have different sections of different countries with their vintage vehicles.
The area was huge and we could take picture almost in every corner.

We had a great time there as if we visited those beautiful countries.

Batu Adventure (2 - 9 December 2017) Part 2

After spending 2 days at Surabaya, our adventure to Batu began.
We rented a car for 5 days to go to Batu. It took roughly around 2.5 hours by highway from Surabaya to Batu.
We stopped over at Taman Safari Prigen before heading over to final destination.
We arrived at Taman Safari around afternoon and the weather was not so friendly. It was drizzling and cloudy.
We managed to see animals and feed them though but we couldn't play at the small theme parks there.
Anyway, the kids had fun watching the animals closer than before.

We then headed to Villa Kambodja, Batu where was our home for 4 nights.
And we had a nice and value for money dinner at Waroeng Mbok Sri. It's Indonesian restaurant served Fried Chicken, Guramee, Fried tofu and tempe.
Both kids and adults love the food.

The next day, we planned to visit Jatim Park 1, where there were theme park and human body museum. But koko Richie suddenly was not feeling well.
So we only visited Human Body museum and had lunch at Waroeng Bamboe where the kids could feed the fishes and had afternoon rest at our villa.

 

While the kids were having rest, we sneaked out to go to the Onsen Hotel and Golden Tulip hotel.

In the evening, we had dinner at Omah Kitir, serving Western food.

While koko Richie, Tromson and oma Happy had early rest at Villa - Mama, papa and Ted visited 15 celcius lounge at Amartahills hotel.

On the following day, it's Oma Happy's turns that she's not feeling well.
So oma Happy chose to have a good rest at villa and the rest of us visited Jatim Park 2 which were Batu Secret Zoo.
The area was super huge and a lot of animals to see and animal theme park.
We rented e-bike for 3 hours to strolling around the area and spent total 4 hours all in

We had lunch at Pohon Inn restaurant, it's a nice restaurant and the food was nice too.

Then we headed to our villa for afternoon rest.

In the evening, mama papa, koko Tromson and Ted visited Batu Night Spectacular but koko Tromson was too tired so he slept at the stroller all the way.

It was a fruitful day though.