It was all started with mommies and daughters day out on Saturday 14th February 2009. We took our kids to indoor playground ( 1Borneo) and then having a very early dinner at CBTL. We all squeezed in to Und's car. Indy stayed at home that day because she needs to rest after just recovered from cough and fever. We met Bonnie in the playground later on after that. Of course it was very chaotic as usual. The normal combination for this kind of outing or gatherhing are: bitting, pinching, hair pulling, screaming ( both kids and moms) , pushing and pulling. And yes....we only breed girls....but yet they are tough as the boys! ( baby NL is the boy but he is too young now to join the wrestler girls club, so for the moment the only boy member is Wawa )
The Ocean Wing
I didn't have any V day dinner as usual. Since my dh for sure must work on that day every year.
This year , he took 2 days off the day after the V day. So he secretly planned and booked the room for our getaway. I kinda smelled it 3 days before, when he told me not to plan anything for Valentine's day. Something fishy..... So we went to the Resort on Sunday. It was just about 45 minutes drive from home. I hope he booked the room that I want! And yes he did!! We actually wanted to stay here from last September the day we celebrated our girls B'day in STAR. But timing was not right. The room is great, spacious and the balcony is exceptional, with our own jacuzzi, and big day bed , big bathroom and of course we love the facitilies in that hotel.
As soon as we arrived there the girls are jumping on their beds, checking every corner of the room.
The inspections began...the room the balcony the jacuzzi and the statue.....
Then we went out to go to the Kid's club, where they played for a while before our lunch time
Then of course is the SWIMMING TIME!!! The hotel put a new set of slide and it is heaven for the children! Any children ( and adults too). Maya go up and slide alone for about 30 more over times. And Indy too! The were laughing, screaming, and were very excited. It was hard to asked them to go back to the room to take a nap.
After a very short nap for them ( too excited I think :) ) they were all fresh again! And we took them for a walk on the beach. After that they asked me to try the Jacuzzi! Who can blame them for that? So Jacuzzi it is!
Me and my dh planned to have a quiet dinner without the children. We knew that there is a new Tepanyaki Restaurant and my dh knows the chef there. So we decided to hire a babysitter service and pray and hope Maya will be ok with the sitter , Indy will be no problem as she is bigger. But as a treat...I ordered the in room dining service for them. They were so happy to see the table being pushed into the room with their meals set up on the dining table. I ordered Minute steak with french fries and steamed veggie for Maya and for Indy I ordered Lamb Chop with mash potatoes and garden salad. The cost? RM 28 only! What a great deal for the superb service and meals!
These 2 young ladies were so happy about the inroom dining!
And yes! it WORKED! They like the sitter as soon as she came in to the room, and I stayed with them for 5 minutes, to told the sitter about them, where were the changing clothes are if she needs to change them, and what they would like to do, and how to put them to sleep. They were pretty easy to handle, luckily! I just told her to draw with them and watch some TV and then when the are sleepy just put them on the bed and pat Maya a bit.
Our main course : wagyu beef, fois gras,cod fish, and tiger prawn
So , off we went to the Tepanyaki restaurant. Both me and dh LOVE tepanyaki so very very much! And it is not easy to find a good one here. So when we heard that Shangri-la Rasa Ria have new Tepanyaki restaurant ,we were like YAY!! FINALLY!.....
Real Tepanyaki must be cooked in front of the customers, in a big flat hot plate ( TE= iron, PAN= board. Like in Chinese : DIE= IRON. BAN=Board, And yaki means grilled)
Chef Carol did the flambe of the wagyu beef with brandy.The meat literally melt in your mouth!
The head chef there is my dh's new friend. She is a woman chef from Hong Kong. And she prepared the special menu for us . And I LOVE LOVE it all!!! My favorite is Fois gras ( read as FOA GRA, it is a goose liver pate ) and of course the Wagyu/Kobe beef. The very well known beef that is super soft and tender ,and juicy. The cow drink sake or beer everyday and must me massage in a special way ( good life for a cow!) Hmm...drooling again! It was a very very excellent dinner!
When we reached the room , they were both a sleep! YAY!!! It was perfect! And then the room service had bring a tray of selection of cheese cakes, and chocolate cakes with grapes. We had it in our balcony with wines. It was very nice..... and we off to sleep.Because I know the kids will be up very early in the morning .
So it was 7 am and here they were:
Pool again! This time in the Ocean Wing area.
And after that we met Chef Carol for breakfast at the COAST. Another excellent meal of course.
Then we walked into the reserved centre, too bad we didn't see the orang utan. Got turtles, fish, ducks, roasters, goat, what else ah??
We headed home after that. Then the kids were asleep when we arrived home. We left them with our maid, and then me and my dh went out for lunch and we had pedicure together! hahaha.. Ya first time took my dh to do pedicure . Of course no nail polish for him! That was my treat for him.
Then we stayed at home the kids play with the new inflatables pool. Then my dh cooked dinner for them. And we went for movie (Valkyrie) .When we reached home, dh prepared another meal for us , because the kids were in the dream land already!
Although this year there were no roses and diamonds for me.... I thought it was a great Valentine's after all!! :-D
Before Dinner,drawing time . I like do dressed them in matching outfits these days :)
Indy with her prize
