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Wednesday, June 09, 2010

Colmar Tropicale@Bukit Tinggi

Shu had planned this short vacation for the longest time and finally we went for this much anticipated getaway on the morning of June 7th.We packed up our stuff the night before at my place back in TTDI and got up early the next day.

The drive was awesome.Maybe it was because we were heading East.The drive uphill has a really awesome view ^_^ We stopped by at Genting Sempah for some food before heading for our exit.As we went uphill,we were both anticipating some sort of indication that we were heading the right way coz there was nothing but just a 2-lane road and trees.

Shu drove really slow at some parts of the journey just so that I could take a few pictures.Moments later,we saw the tips of the castle of Colmar Tropicale.It's a hotel with an Old French Town theme.It looked really neat from where we were.When we finally got there,the whole place looked spectacular!

It took us a while to check in coz there were some missing information since Shu made online reservations about a month ago.Finally,we were given our key cards and we lugged all our luggage to our room which was in the building across the hotel reception.Imagine Tolkien's LOTR's Bree.That's exactly what the whole place looked like.

We got up to our room and slept in the whole after noon coz we were super tired.Well,I totally passed out.Shu spent some time watching tv and taking photos from the balcony.When I got up,it was about 6pm so we cleaned ourselves up and went downstairs to see what was going on.We had dinner at the pizza parlor La Flamme which was right below our room.Then we strolled around and tried some games which totally sucked coz I believe they cheated! ;/

Anywho,we took more pictures later on and by 10pm,we were back in the room coz there was nothing much going on anymore.We got up early the next day to have breakfast at La Blason.Then,we decided to check out and headed up towards the Japanese tea house.The hike uphill was exhausting but the cold air and water from the drizzle in the morning kept us cool.I was in my hoodie coz I was freezing.

We got to the Japanese tea house where I rented a kimono.It was fun but we were too early for the tea ceremony so we left after taking photos.We drove down and headed for the rabbit park.I've never heard of a rabbit park before so I was quite excited.It turns out that we could go around feeding the rabbits.RABBITS!HUGE FAT RABBITS!I got scared coz they'd start chasing after you feed a couple.More and more rabbits would flock you and a couple of 'em started sniffing my shoes and my bag and stuff.I gave Shu the rest of the packet of food and grabbed the camera.

At the rabbit park were also some donkeys and deers and some tortoise and storks.Oh yeah,we also saw the place where they breed them rabbits and there was an area where they kept the baby rabbits.After that,we went to see the four-faced buddha.It was a huge gold statue in the center of a temple.I managed to take photos of all the 4 faces.They looked a bit scary at some point :p

Our next plan was to head to Cameron Highlands since our visit to Bukit Tinggi was done.But since Shu got sick,we decided to drive home to Subang instead.Unpacked our stuffs and hung around the house for a bit and headed out to Kampung Baru at about 11pm coz Shu wanted to take me out.We were trying to look for places where they JAIS people would be but there were none around the areas we went to so we headed to the family clinic in TTDI at about 2am to get some medicine for Shu's flu.After that we made a quick stop at the convenient store to get some more supplies and headed home.

Shu made us breakfast this morning ^_^ and then we headed to KLIA coz my mum just informed us that she got tickets to go to the States to visit Eno-san.She'll only be back about a week before our wedding reception in TTDI.

We were supposed to play badminton today but it was raining cats and dogs so we stayed in AGAIN :/

The last couple of days had been fun.I need sleep now.I regret taking those laxatives yesterday!SHIT!