During Christmas, MooMoo and her family went for a family cruise. Everyone went for the trip except for her SIL... married to her work as usual. The cruise trip was with Star Cruises, boarding from Penang and stopped by 2 places: Phuket and Krabi, which takes up to 3 days 3 nights. This is the 1st time MooMoo took a cruise and it could be her last time, as this is really not her cup of tea. :p
It was quite a tiring trip as MooMoo travelled all the way from Singapore to KL, then from KL to Penang to catch the cruise. After the cruise, took bus from Penang to KL, then KL to Singapore again. It was really quite challenging travelling with baby and kid... up and down the ship... especially during the excursion trips, carrying all the needed stuff, the pram and them. Hahaha!
We took one of the smaller ship -> Star Cruise Libra... MooMoo's zodiac sign. Haha! It has a total of 10 decks in the ship; equipped with facilities like gym, basketball court, swimming pool, sauna, activities centres, restaurants, etc.
This is the ship taken from afar...
MooMoo's room... sharing with her 2 nephews... the upper bunks can be folded...
MooMoo's room is at Deck 3... here's Cutie Pie checking out the waves in the sea...excited!
Cutie Pie's bear enjoying sunset by the window...
Swimming pool.... there's another smaller one for kids at the other side of the top deck...
You can jog at one of the deck specified with jogging track... MooMoo didn't bring her sneakers... as if got time to jog... hahaha... lazy of course... :p
One of the captain giving safety briefing... MooMoo thinks that the flimsy life jacket will not work very well if any of us really drop into the strong stormy waves... It is really dangerous for kids and babies as they do not have super small size life jackets for them... only smaller size for the bigger kids. MooMoo's friend was jokingly telling MooMoo said if the end of the world and she's out in the rough sea, she will die drowning horribly. Well, MooMoo told her friend, even if on land, if earthquake and you get swallowed by the earth, you will die horribly too... so not much of a difference. MooMoo believe when the time comes, it will come... :p
This will be our life saver ship if there's any emergencies. All are divided into groups and assigned to assemble at specific area nearing their life saver ship during emergencies. MooMoo thought they would demo how people jump into the sea when required... but too bad no one did the demo. Haha!
There's internet facilities in the ship too but MooMoo thinks that no one would actually utilise them as it is way to expensive. It is 56cents per minute. The WIFI is cheaper compared to this. It is RM40 for 12 hours or RM38 for 24 hours but only can be used at common areas and not in the cabins.
There's a cute "BEAR BEAR" Christmas tree in the ship. There's a lot of kiddo activities on the ship but only for 5 years to 12 years. Too bad... we missed the Dora session, else Cutie Pie can meet Dora personally but Cutie Pie is a bit scared of the big dolls with human inside. She thinks it's monsters. Haha! Trying hard to tell her it's not scary but she just won't go near them to take picture... even with Santa Claus... =.=!!
The ship stopped by Patong beach for about 12 hours for the 1st excursion trip. We went for a short guided tour around Phuket-Patong area. The guide brought us to visit the Cashew Nut place, Elephant Shrine, some jewellery factory selling jewelleries, some shopping outlet mall and lastly dropped us for dinner at a shopping mall, where we ate our Christmas dinner at Sizzler.
Patong Beach
The Elephant Shrine
Lots of different sizes and shapes of elephants all around...
Dropped by a place making Cashew Nuts... showing you how they remove the shell and made juice out of the cashew nut fruit... the juice tasted a bit weird and sour... but they said it is suppose to be good for digestion. You can taste all you can at the shop... all types of flavoured cashew nuts...
Complimentary birthday cake from Star Cruise for Little Cutie as her birthday fall on 23 Dec. It was just a small plain chocolate cake. We decorated it with the christmas ornaments from other cupcakes in the buffet line. Haha!
There were Christmas Eve celebration and farewell celebration on the last night at the ship, with the crew singing and dancing together with everyone. There's free food for the whole day in 3 specified restaurants based on the timing provided for Breakfast, Lunch, Tea Time, Dinner and Supper. Personally, MooMoo thinks that the food ain't that great... maybe coz it's FREE?!? Haha! It's not even a 3 star hotel standard. One thing MooMoo cannot stand is the tea and coffee comes with sugar in the pot and it's DAMN SWEET!!!
Mud crabs... nice Aesop Fable on "The crab and its mother" stating that the parents must teach their children to be well behaved, have self discipline and respect the elder to suit the motto of Krabi "Lively town, Lovely people". If everyone apply this, the world will be a better place. Haha!
Big huge mud crab!
KRABI: Lively town, Lovely people
Although it was super tiring after the whole trip, MooMoo really enjoyed herself spending quality time with her family. Really meant it by quality time as there's no internet on the phone so MooMoo could not spend time playing with her iPhone. Haha! It was really great bonding with the kids, especially her 2 big nephews and her Little Cutie.
* "No family is perfect… We argue, we fight. We even stop talking to each other at times, but in the end, family is family… the love will always be there." Cherish your family and do spend more time with them, while you have the chance. ^=^
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sounds fun :-)
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