Get Ready: Genting Highlands trip with family (1-3 May) Part II

(... continued from Part I)

Day 2 was theme park day, and Rachel got up early. Rueben was, of course, still asleep, so all of us (minus the sleepy bear) went for a morning trip to Skyway Station. I thought there'd be a Delifrance, but erm ... probably it was closed down due to poor business. That meant, no good prospects for breakfast. We had to wait till we finished visiting the Animal Kingdom and then rushed back up to find a McD's. Man, did we gobble up everything fast!

Rueben finally woke up and we went ahead to the theme park. I was all hyped up to try the rides with Rueben, who seemed to fit the description of a "suitable game partner" - above the min height requirement, doesn't have a weak heart. First ride, the Spinner. He was excited too, and while we were waiting for our turn, announced that we should play our money's worth, a.k.a. try all the rides. Right after our first ride, the same person declared that he never wanted to try anymore of the rides. Okay, I'd admit that Spinner is dizzifying, and highly insecure (I felt like my life was literally hanging by the tiny chains) ... but there are other fun rides too! Grrrrrrrrr ... so for the most of the day, we tried all those family rides (read: boring) e.g. the monorail, carousel, boating, dinosaurland, flying dumbo thing (forgot the name), pirate train (I didn't try, but my mom told me it was lame). I almost gave up on the exciting rides, when Rueben declared that he was alert enough to play the Flying Coaster with me. What, really??? I wasn't going to let go of this opportunity, even though I had my doubts. Most of all, I had not taken lunch, so that meant my stomach was not ready for such a thrill.

But I went ahead anyway, and boy, what a mistake it was! After that ride, all I wanted to do was to puke. But I couldn't, because there wasn't anything for me to puke. I tried it, and got a bad stomach cramp (a way for stomach to tell me, "hey, give it up, there's nothing in here"). So there you go, the end of thrill rides for me. But we weren't the sort who would let our money go to waste, so of course, more lame rides ... we even went for the ultimate lamest ride of all, the gondola. Soon, it was Rachel's bedtime again, and we went back to the hotel while my parents went back to their calling. And they came back at 5am again.

Day 3 was mostly casual, with the morning spent in walking around the garden and having breakfast at Old Town (it's right across our hotel). Then we packed up and headed to the Mushroom Farm for lunch. Rachel was really sleepy by then, amd dozed off as soon as we left the farm. We got caught in the heavy rain around Gohtong Jaya area, so we had to wait it out for about 30 mins before continuing our journey. I requested that we use the KL/Kuantan way back, which Rueben obliged. It was a longer route, but smoother and Rachel was fine. We reached Autocity in time for our dinner, followed by another 30 minutes or so back to our home sweet home.