End of Day 1

It was midnight and my boys were still wide awake. Both were excited with the trip to Penang and the size of the suite. They just couldn't stop themselves from running from one end to the other.

Earlier tonight, we managed to have dinner at Padang Kota before visiting my grandmother. She appears very frail and had lost a lot of weight. Her appetite was down and this was not helped by the fact that she has had new dentures fitted in. And I don't think that they were fitted well.

After a long chat, we finally headed back to hotel and reached here at around 11. Time to hit the sack soon. We may be heading to Teluk Bahang tomorrow with the camera on the ready.

The Journey Up

After stopping over at AL-Manar to pick up Idlan’s report card and at Bukit Antarabangsa to pick up my Mum, we were off as planned to Penang. We stopped at a couple of spots - Tapah to fill up our tummy and Bukit Merah to empty Idlan’s bladder. But on the whole, the journey was very smooth. We got to Penang in time for some nasi kandar lunch, but checking into the hotel was a bit of a pain. As expected, our booking was messed up and the room they initially put us in did not have a connecting door.

After a couple of phonecalls and calling out the on-duty manager, we got what we ordered for, an apartment suite for us, connected to a deluxe room for my parents. It worked out great in the end.

Waiting for the main room to be cleanedIdlan filling the time doing some construction workFinally, we got ourselves unpacked. The weather was a bit on the gloomy side. Hopefully it won’t rain as we were planning to have dinner by the esplanade later tonight. I wanted my fix of laksa and ‘kangkong sotong’. Time permitting, we might drop by my Grandmother’s place as well to check on her.

We would see how things go out overnight. We might be traveling around the island - butterfly park maybe?