Journal of My Life: April 2013

Medan Trip

20/04/2013 - 22/04/2013

Day 1

20/04/2013

it was quite a last minute planned trip... since there's a promo for air tickets to Medan, we decided to buy the air tickets first and the ground package separately... there's 7 of us plus the 2 boys...

we took the 8.35am flight.... it took around an hour to reach... it was 8.30am local time...

we were picked by our private tour guide in a 11 seaters van... he sent us to the first tourist attraction... the Maimoon Palace... it's the palace for the Sultan of the Deli which was built in 1888...

Grandma and Jordan... everything was yellow in the palace..

first group pic...

we just stopped for a while at the palace and headed for our first lunch at Medan..

then, we stopped at the road side for some coconut juices and keropok...

enjoying the coconut in the hot weather...

we continue our journey to Lake Toba... halfway, we stopped at Patent Shop to buy the famous peanut candies - Teng Teng... after a few good hours of van ride, we finally reached Parapat Lake Toba.. very soon the sky has turned dark around 6-ish... we had our dinner at a local restaurant and checked in to Danau Toba International Cottage...

our room for the night... it was supposed to be cold at Lake Toba thus the room doesn't come with fan or air-cond... but, it was not cold at all and there's lots of mosquitos in the room too... =.=" kinda disappointed though...

cleaned ourselves and went our for a short walk to nearby night market and shops... bought some mosquite coils too... after a while, it started to drizzle... we quickly walked back to our room...

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Day 2

21/04/2013

rise and shine....

good morning !!!

nice view of Lake Toba from our room balcony...

we had buffet breakfast at the cafe before continuing our journey...

second group photo... it's the pool side actually and right in front of the cafe..

beautiful Lake Toba behind us...

mum...

family pic...

after breakfast, we visited Tomok Village...

lots of stall selling all kinds of stuff...

Ashton fell asleep again...

bought a set of clothes for Jordan... and he immediately wore it due to the hot weather...

me and the boys...

took some photos while waiting for the rest to shop...

take #2...

then, we cruise Lake Toba by ferry boat... it was hot and slightly windy... phew...

boat ride...

the women...

that's the view of the place we stayed last night...

we were then transferred to a local restaurant for lunch before we continue our journey to Berastagi... stopped halfway at Simarjunjung for the famous ginger tea and pisang goreng... it was quite cooling there...

beautiful tree at Simarjunjung...

covered the boys in shawl due to the cold wind...

we also stopped at the Sipiso Piso waterfall for a short while... according to our tour guide, the waterfall is 110metre tall... he also taught us to bring some "water" back... how ???

with a bottle... hahaaa...

mum also took some 'water'...

helloo...

chiak....

we continue our van ride and reached Berastagi... visited the Central Fruit Market... next, we had our dinner and checked in Grand Mutiara Hotel and cleaned ourselves...

finally, a decent and spacious room for us.... with aircond of course !!

and a spacious bathroom...

rested a while and went out to hunt for food again before hitting the sack... anyway, the weather at Berastagi was cooler compared to Lake Toba...

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Day 3

22/04/2013

woke up early and had breakfast by the poolside again...

we asked the tour guide to bring us to the hot spring at Mt Sibayak...

dipping their foot at the hot spring...

we stayed a while till it started to drizzle again... went back to hotel and packed our stuff...

the last group pic...

our flight is 9.35pm , so we went back to Medan to continue our trip... basically, there's nothing much in Medan,.. we just shopped around in some random malls till it's time to go to the airport...

our plane...

bye bye, Medan...

Jordan cant wait to go home... :)

Daddy's BIG 30 Celebration @ Hong Park Sa Korean Restaurant

07/04/2013

celebrated my Dear's birthday one day earlier.. bought some vouchers online and invited his best buddies to celebrate with him... opss.. no photos of his friends here... all camera shy... >.<