Trip to Farm In The City

This post is longg overdue, sebab busy terlampau dan partly sebab malas edit gambar.  Maka nya tidak lah banyak mana gambar nak share kat post ni.  Been putting it off sebab sambil fikir, ada ke orang baca?  Ada ke?  Actually ada ke takde tu tak penting sangat sebab I menulis ni kadang sebab hobi.  Hobi suka bebel katakan.

Kitorang pergi Farm In The City ni dah lama sebenarnya, awal 2017 haritu kot.  Tak salah dalam bulan February.  Apa dia Farm In The City ni ye... Sebuah petting zoo sebenarnya.  Bila sebut zoo, anak- anak melompat la.  Seronok.  Kids loveeee animals.  Plan asal nak ke Zoo Negara tapi dah tau dah pe'el memasing kalau bersiap tu, takde nye nak cepat.  Hmmm Zoo kalau nak puas, kena gerak pagi dan ronda lah sampai peluh ketiak.  Last time kita pegi, dari waktu buka tu, sampai la 3pm kot.  Dahla bad experience sebab weather teruk, di selang seli hujan.

Farm In The City ni terletak di Seri Kembangan, Serdang.  Alamat dia ialah Jalan Prima Tropika Barat 1, Pusat Bandar Putra Permai, 43300 Seri Kembangan, Selangor.  Tapi not to worry, kalau type dekat Waze farm in the city tu jumpa lah.  

Ni dekat pintu masuk, I snap gambar.  Harga tiket individu Farm In The City ni berapa, lupa lah.  Tapi kitorang ambik package family ni, plus satu tiket extra kanak-kanak.  Campur tax tak silap dalam 140+.  Bila daftar masuk kat kaunter ticket tu, dapat lah beberapa voucher termasuk voucher discount makan untuk restaurant dalam Farm In The City ni, dan beberapa tiket free untuk petting zoo Menara KL (which end up tak guna sebab lupa hahaha).  Pastu kat situ juga diorang bagi kita paket kecil untuk bagi food dekat animals nanti.  

Tengok, happy kids.  Ni sebelum muka masing-masing dah berkerut kepanasan.

Seronok dapat bagi makan turtle ke tortoise ni eh. Confuse lak I hehehe.  

Dalam ni binatang tak lah sebanyakZoo biasa.  Tapi yang menarik nya dalam Farm In The City ni, boleh berinteraksi dengan binatang kat sini.  Yang ingat ada dalam ni, ada small birds park, diorang semua merasa pegang dan bagi makan.  I berundur diri sebab geli.

Ada rusa, ada turtles and tortoise, ada rabbit, guinea pig, ada snakes, ada iguana, ada several different breeds of horses, dan banyak binatang berkaki empat I tak tau nama... Hahahaa.

Ada ayam, ada ostrich, owl, dan macam- macam juga lah.  Ramai yang kata oh kecik sangat Farm In The City ni.  Tapi bagi I, sebab datang pon dah tengahari, anak- anak boleh grumpy akibat panas, so it was just the right size untuk tour dalam masa 1 jam 1/2 ke 2 jam gitu.  

Dalam ni ada 2 restaurant, satu macam ala gerai gitu. Satu lagi dah dekat exit ada restaurant yang agak mahal katanya.  Kitorang tak pergi yang kat exit tu sebab tak dan pon, dah nak hujan.  

Dapat naik poney dalam Farm In The City. Poney kecik aje.  Kesian penat poney ni sebab queue nak naik tu sangat panjang, and kena bayar extra RM5 untuk sorang kalau tak silap I.  Mula- mula bila tengok queue anak- anak kecil excited nak naik poney I rasa aduhaiii sedih, kesian.  Sure dia penat.  Nasib juga nampak diorang rotate beberapa poney, and bagi each one masa rehat.  Seronok tak terkata ana- anak... Nak naik ni, ada limit berat which I tak ingat berapa.  Poney ni dah dekat hujung-hujung farm dah.  

Penat tunggu queue poney.  Lepas naik, boleh bagi Poney makan.

Dekat entrance which is also the exit ada kedai souvenirs dan cats shop.  Tapi I tak tertarik pon. Mommy pon rasa ok kat sini, tandas pun bersih.  Kawasan pon takde la panas terik mana sebab banyak pokok.  Tak makan masa terlalu panjang.  Yang jadi masalah parking aje la sebab macam limited aje parking dia Farm In The City ni.  Tapi ada anggota Rela jaga so quite ok jugala.  Fees nak kata mahal pon ok- ok ajelah.  Yela kita kena understand nak upkeep tempat ni perlu funding juga

Best ke kat Farm In The City? Seronok sangat kata anak- anak.  Yelah, diorang dapat bagi makan, dapat pegang dan belajar texture binatang tu semua.  Diorang tau ada animals makan rumput dna veges, ada yang makan hays.  Kira objective nak anak jalan sambil belajar tu tercapai lah juga.  Tapi kalau bulan May ni tanya lagi, entah ingat tak? Hmmm.  Maybe besok boleh tanya semula.  Overall experience Mommy bagi la 8 out of 10 kot.  

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A short trip with the kids

We had a short trip to Johor not a while back, and proud to say it was a successful first-time, short trip with the kids  twins while we follow Daddy to work.  The twins are already 3 years + and both of us never dared to bring them anywhere except balik kampung.  We used to spend short trips nearby when we only had Kakak.  It was too much to think about carrying 2 babies at once when travelling in our small.. small.. small.. car, and too many things to carry :P Don't expect a write up on overseas trip from me, at least not yet hahahaa,

Anyway, Mr B had a job to be done at Johor Premium Outlet, so it was a work-fun trip. Work for Mr B, fun for the kids and ah well, not so fun for Mommy where she gets to watch her kids having fun hahaha.  We spent 1 night there, mostly in hotel because Mr B ended up working most of the time.  Imagine my to-do list before going was like 1001, but we ended up doing only 1..

I was assigned to book us accommodation, which was of course reimbursable by the Company, so basically there was a limit.  I had to find somewhere cheap, comfortable, with swimming pool, huge bed, bath tub, and nearby the JPO.  So I went on booking.com and got us Le Grandeur Palm Resorts.  It is about 10-15 minutes to JPO.  Anything more than what Mr B's company can reimburse we'll have to top-up.

After reading several online review about Le Grandeur I decided that the place was probably gonna be an old hotel with lodsa refurbishment needed but somewhat convenient for myself and the kids given the facilities available.  Dahla pergi pun teman Mr B keje... not gonna be much of leisure or jalan-jalan cari makan trip la.  Just wana be away from all the shit normal stuff...

At the time of writing this post I was already thinking why was it that I did not remember to buy the inflatable mattress (which we bought just before raya).  Seriously tak terfikir masa tu.

I think we got ourselves the 'extra large double bed' or something, I can't remember.
But all of us can bunk in here all at once.  

 We had very little time with Mr B, but plenty of time to enjoy this room, me and the kids.  It was all mandi in the bath tub, another round at the pool and then bath tub again and the pool, it's been that or lazing around in the bed.

The room was very spacious for all of us.

Kids already screaming 'we wanna go mandi mom please pretty please.'

Nice and windy at 6pm. 

Pool was ok, huge but already looking very old.  

 Ok there was so much photos of the kids in the pool and hotel room because that was all we did other than hanging out at the JPO itself to do some Raya shopping, then we all went cari makan at Danga Bay for dinner and Kilang Bateri for late lunch the next day before we head back to KL.

My thought of JPO did not change since the first time I came here last time, any high street brands you find here are not much cheaper than those in KL.  Guys I even thought that my GAP 50% membership discounts gave me better offer than JPOs.  But if you happen to be here with intention to shop, well maybe... Maybe there were some that were really cheap, like handbags maybe.

These girls, all they care about is ice-cream *roll eyes* so having Baskin Robin while waiting for Daddy was fun for them.

The special thing about Johor I guess is also food varieties you can find here.  We obviously didn't get to explore much due to limited time.  But we made it to Danga Bay (no photos as princesses fell asleep on the way to dinner and Mr B decided to tapau back to hotel and we ended up eating in the room when the girls are wide awake).  Kiddos loved the ikan bakar soo much it was like one huge fish wasn't enough for all of us here. 

Then before we head back to KL we had our late lunch at this 'Kilang Bateri'.  Ok I should've taken the photo outside hahahaha because it was quite cool with vintage car and all but I didn't because we had cranky kids with us.  Seriously guys this place WAS a kilang bateri.  It is now a hipster cafe/ food court with varieties to choose from.  I loved this place.   Interior was super cool and of course clean, so many food to choose from and the price was shockingly cheap also.  Once you've filled your stomach you can pay a visit at their hipster vendor shops around this Kilang Bateri.  I found those shops pretty cheap.  I bet parking will be disastrous had we come at peak hours which thankfully we did not.  

I was running out of battery so this was one of the 2 photos I managed to take of 'Kilang Bateri'

My poor attempt to take 'panorama' shot on iphone hahaha

Anyway what I realised from this trip was that it didn't take expensive activities or places to make my kids happy.  It was the togetherness, and spending the time with them that they appreciated so much of this trip.  I bet they won't remember places that we've been to, but they will remember somewhere in that memory , I was there with them... Not just elsewhere too busy making a living that I myself have forgotten to live...