Adventure Park in Bukit Gambang

OK, don't talk so much, pictures coming up...

Wait, how can not talk, right? After all, I've been silent for so long. You guys deserve some explanation. No, I did not contemplate go jump building or jump sea after the previous emo post, but bugger (I'm not naming anyone here), I was out of action from blogging and FB and sabotaging because the new screamix line wasn't up. (Don't they know I have fanses here waiting for me to talk crap or see nice pics??!! Never mind count lei count hui doe hei you 5 people, ok?)

Well, apart from that, I took the kids for their much awaited long adventure break, or so I promised while encouraging them to study hard for their exams.

It was a long car ride from KL, in the direction to Kuantan, about 3 hours drive when we finally see this signboard. Finally, else I really have to serve the kids alcohol in the car to make them sleep. They were driving me nuts!

Hurrah! Finally! Whew!

We had our lunch in Gambang town about 8 kms away from the resort. It's just a 1-street town with a row of shops. Spotted a chinese kopitiam with quite a crowd of customers seated inside, so we thought the food must be ok. Well, we ordered some fried rice and noodles to satisfy our hunger pangs. Don't say I don't advise, don't order the hokkien mee, it was bad! Fried rice is pretty good, recommended.

Wasting no more time, we headed straight to the resort for checking in. The rooms weren't ready yet, and boy! are those rooms dirty! Like bits of maggi mee thrown all over the place!

Anyway, it wasn't our worries, we just leave our things behind in the apartments and went off looking for adventure.

Just across the road, there's the Adventure Park in the forest park. We settled for a jungle trekking, said to take around an hour or so. Sound good to us.

Part of the entourage, the same group which went sabotaging
Sentosa Island in Spore last year, if you notice.

Since there were nothing much to do while waiting for the guide to con more customers for the trek, we took pictures lor, what else.

The trek started off with a few series of "fun" activities for adults and kids alike to "warm up", I suppose.

The kids loved it so much. Really much better than playing Wii or computer games all day at home.

Didi was shaking tremendously all the way from the start line to the finish line. I was equally scared for him. I keep hearing myself telling papa to go help him all the time. Sometimes I just wonder, if it's better for them to face the challenge and overcome their fear or assist them until they build enough confidence to do the tasks. I think most of the time, I was tempted to choose the latter option.
This is one of the easiest challenge. But a bit tough for meimei, and again, I was barking at papa to give her a helping hand. Where was I and what I was doing, I hear you ask? I was taking pictures la, what else! heh!

Didi saying "easy nia, adults, don't try this at home..."

Try swinging yourself from one end to the other. Not that easy, well, maybe my legs are too long (chiu!)

Ah.. almost there! Just don't know what to do with the legs when you are there.

Mommy giving her dotter a big push. Same result: the legs get in the way when reached the other side.

We finally started trekking in the small forest and the kids really enjoyed themselves a lot. Meimei was on her own in no time, walking in a fast pace catching up with the rest of the people most of the time while scurrying up after falling down time and time again. Really cute.

When we arrived at a junction, the guide asked us if we like to go for a more challenging route or a easypeasy one. Without giving us even a second to ponder about it, the kids immediately yelled "Challenge! Challenge!". I actually wanted the easypeasy one, but very no-face to say that out at that critical moment, haimai? Sigh... die die la, see how things go.

And this is the part. It's a very steep slope and you use the rope to assist you down the slope. Seems hard at first, then watching one after another going down, hard becomes easy, or so it seems.

The kids were very excited yet scared about this whole new challenge, but they conquered! How proud are we moms of them. The dads... no feelings one..hmm..

The youngest one to climb down on his own. He's the same age as didi actually, just a few months younger.
His mom proudly recording down their first steps. While she loves recording every precious moments of these, I prefer freezing the moments in pictures.

Didi was the last kid to go down. He really looked awfully cute to me, trembling with fear yet smiling in ecstasy, and going down each step with care.

Almost there, what a relief! It's time for the adults to go down! Oh shit! I wanted to turn back to that junction to take the easy route timmm...

Another moment frozen together with his grin. Looked very happy to me.

Meimei can't manage on her own, so the guide took her down with her holding on to him like a koala bear.

Looked how cool and gaya! I reminded myself to keep that composure!

But dammit! When it was my turn, it really wasn't so easy peasy, for a second, I really wanted to cry out loud! Haha! And I do know, my "stylo mylo" was all wrong for that descent of mine! Have to tell my friend to delete any vid or pic of me if she has. Oh shit!

And that's the slope we went down one by one. Hurray! We did it! And no thanks, we are not going back there again!

Back to the center in no time and we just hang around chilling out. Girl playing with the musang pet by those staff.

The boys had a go at paintball. Really endless fun time for them.

2 papas with their 2 sons on each side of them. No quali, but got gaya.

The ATVs that are available for hire. With the hefty fees of Rm30 for 10mins ride or RM100 for an hour jungle ride, we didn't ride on them. But it's free to take pics with them, so here they are! Went back to the hotel and changed to our swimsuits, charging all the way to the hotel's pool. After a cool dip, and a shower back home, we had dinner back at the same place where we had lunch and ordered a few dishes. This time, the food was yummy. I liked the lemon chicken especially. The steamed fish was very fresh and nice too. Good food and good company really makes a good holiday indeed.

Next day, the Bukit Gambang water theme park.