Holidays & Wedding Invitation (Day 1)

Hello, I'm back! Very slow internet connection today, but I'm trying my best to update as much as I can. Hubby, kids and I went to Kota Kinabalu (KK) last 17th-19th Aug, 2012. On the 17th Aug, we departed from Keningau at 9:00 am. Arrived Penampang around noon time and we straight away went to my younger sister's house at Country Heights Apartment.

My kids with their cousins

After a short visit, we went for lunch in Penampang. We did a quick shopping at Survey Penampang then proceed to KK city. Checked in at Horizon Hotel around 3:00 pm.

@ the lobby of Horizon Hotel

Then we bought some cakes for tea break...delicious!

Delicious cakes & swiss rolls

Mango, Vanilla & Choc rolls & Blueberry cake

The path is quite dark and I don't really like it, but I'm satisfied with our room.

LOL

Our Superior Room (Twin)

Simple but clean bathroom/toilet

Coffee/tea making facilities & mini fridge

A view from our room

Later in the evening, we went to Suria Sabah Shopping Mall. Need to do a last minute shopping for hubby and kids. It's very hard to find a suitable purple shirts for them. Luckily we found it. Finally! After that, we have our dinner at Upperstar Suria Sabah.

Coffee, Chocolate & Mango Smoothies

Hubby's Nasi Lemak

Mine ~ Lamb Chop

Fish & Chips for my kids

After dinner, we went back to hotel due to heavy rain. We don't want to be sick the next day. Otherwise, we can't attend the wedding. 

ZZZzzz...

3D/2N Trip To KK ~ Day 3

On our last day in KK (23/12/11), we had our breakfast at the Roof Top Restaurant, Imperial Hotel. The breakfast time is between 6.00-10.30am. We went there at 9.30am but most of the food is finished. The staff should double check and refill it or maybe they don't have enough staff since it's holiday. However, the food is yummy!

Mine :)

After breakfast, we went for last minute shopping in Warisan Square. While waiting for the Big Apple Donuts (BAD) outlet to be opened, hubby brought me to Padini Store, just next to BAD. Wow! Sales! Sales! Sales! Hubby bought few items for me (Will update more about it in my next updates ya :)

They really like the Blue Santa Claus

Big Apple Donuts

Bought Famous Amos too

We checked out from the hotel around 12.15pm then stopped by at my brother in law's house in Penampang. Sayonara KK, see you again next year!

On our way back to Keningau, we also stopped by at Gunung Alab restaurant for our late lunch. My kids saw a huge cage with lots of animals inside.

Bats

Rabbit

You can see bats, squirrel, rabbit,etc animals in those cage. However, I guess it's better if the owner release all the animals. I met a group of tourist on that day and they are so excited to see those bats!

We continued our journey and arrived safely in Keningau around 5pm. Thanks God for the safe trip and thanks to my wonderful hubby too. Kids and I really had fun. Okay readers, I have to stop blogging now. Will update more about my Christmas 2011 later.

3D/2N Trip to KK ~ Day 2 (Part 2)

Thanks for keep on reading ya...On that night of 22/12/11, hubby brought us to Perdana Park to see the musical fountain. It was raining, but we still enjoyed our moments there.

Lovely Christmas deco @ the entrance

Raining & very cold

Behind us is the musical fountain

After that, hubby suggested to watch a movie at Suria Sabah. Unfortunately, our car's brake isn't functioning very well. So, we decided just to go shopping at Centre Point KK, which is a walking distance from our hotel. We had our dinner at McDonald. I had Beef Prosperity Burger. I like it but quite spicy for me.

What a surprised! I met my friend cum my ex colleague, Laura. We still keep in touch through Facebook, but we haven't meet each other since 2003 I guess.

With Laura & her daughter

We went back to hotel around 10 pm and ZZZzzz

3D/2N Trip To KK ~ Day 2 (Part 1)

The next morning (22/12/11), we had our breakfast at The Square of Novotel. I prefer this hotel than any other hotel in 1Borneo area because variety of food selection for breakfast. Buffet style but lots of yummy thingy!

My heavy breakfast :P

After breakfast, we checked out from the hotel and went for city tour. We visited Sabah Museum. It was my second visit since 1991! What a long time, huh? Our kids are very excited because it was their first visit. Unfortunately we are not allowed to take photos inside the museum.

By the way, we saw an artist outside the museum. We asked him to sketch a photo for our kids but until our visit end, he haven't done yet! We are so disappointed. He said too many photos to sketch, but why he approached us in the first place?

Anyway, here are some of our photos outside the museum.

After that, we checked in to Imperial Hotel and then had our lunch at Food Court, Centre Point. Hubby accompanied our kids to play games and I went back to hotel to get some rest. I'll meet my another friend, later that evening.

Met my friend, Debbie at Starbucks Warisan Square. Our last met was in 1st Jan, 2011.

Green Tea, Ipanema Cake & America Cheese Cake

3D/2N Trip To KK ~ Day 1

I went to Kota Kinabalu (KK) last 21st Dec, 2011 with hubby and kids. We supposed to go earlier but hubby is so busy with school thingy even though it was school holidays! Anyway, he promised we will have fun in KK and we did! Thanks hubby :)

On the way to KK (21/12/11), we stopped by at Kipandi Butterfly Park. It was located on Tambunan-Penampang Road. The fees are RM10 per adult and no charge for my kids.

Inside the Butterfly Garden

I love butterflies!

Our local guide, showing off caterpillar

Then, we went to Native Orchid Garden. There's a lot of orchid species inside this garden. My kids are very excited because they saw 'Periuk Kera' (Nephentes) for the first time!

1 of Nephentes species (Periuk Kera)

1 of orchid species that you can see in that garden

After that, we stopped by at Megalong, Penampang for lunch. We had a nice lunch at HoHo Bento.

Beef Teppanyaki with rice

Chicken Teppanyaki with rice

After lunch, we went for a quick shopping. Hubby saw a beautiful red dress at one of the boutique. He gave me $ to buy it. Gee, thanks hubby!

We arrived at Novotel, 1Borneo around 2.30pm. I was very tired and took a few minutes nap. I had appointment with my friend, Jenny later that evening.

While hubby took care of our kids, I went out to meet Jenny. We went shopping for some Christmas dresses at Niichi, 1Borneo. Lots of sale and I love all the dresses! I bought 2 dresses (Thanks again hubby for the $, I know you'll view my blog later).

Then, Jenny brought me to Kenny Rogers Roasters. Thanks for the treat!

I'm Having Caesar Salad & Caramel Chocolate

My beautiful friend, Jenny

Our photo together

After dinner, we said goodbye. I'm gonna miss her as she'll be moving back to LD very soon :(

I went back to hotel, but hubby and kids already our for dinner at Marry Brown outlet. Then we do shopping for the kids together. I stopped by at McDonald outlet to buy Strawberry McFlurry. Back to the hotel and ZZZzzz