Working Hard in Edaytown

On the second day of my school holidays (20th June), mummy brought me to Edaytown 星期八小镇. Edaytown is China's version of Kidzania where children get to play-pretend and role-play different types of occupations. I have actually been here last year in one of my school field trips but it was too crowded and I only managed to take part in 2 occupations. 

This time, we took the opportunity to go before the local school holiday started (holidays for international schools started a week earlier) to beat the crowd. Mummy chose the afternoon session (3:30-7:30pm) on a weekday and it was a good choice... the whole place was quiet and nearly deserted. I didn't need to queue up at all and was the sole participant in most of them. Even with all the time saved from queuing, I still managed only about less than a quarter of the 48 available occupations in this "theme park". 4 hours is just too short! 

Hanging around with the Edaytown mascots before the gates opened at 3:30pm for the second session of the day.

First stop... cashed my cheque at the bank

My first job - a scientist at 3M

Fire-fighter! This was really fun because I got to ride in a mini fire-engine...

... and put out some fake fire in a "burning" building

Briefing at the airport

Little miss air stewardess :)

We went into this plane and took turns becoming flight attendants and pilots. There was a flight simulator inside too. 

Biotechnology researcher at Yakult (Just ignore spelling mistakes on the board. It is a common sight here). 

Looking under the microscope. After finishing my "research", I was given a bottle of Yakult as reward! :)

Sushi chef

See, being the only participant, I got all the attention to myself!  

Cacat-looking cucumber sushi made by... err, who else? :p

Played doctor-doctor at a children's hospital.

I was the sole participant again and some of the very kind facilitators paid me the wages of those not around too. I sometimes got paid 5x the usual wage ;)

Volunteered at a recycling plant

Loving nannies in a nursery... mummy kept persuading me to try this but I refused. I preferred something tougher and more rugged....

.... like... a security officer! @-@

Off to the bank to load/unload money

Heavily armed. Don't play-play! ;)

Finally, I chose to work in the Hi-Chew candy factory

It's fun being a candy maker!

I was given a small pack of chewy candies after completing my task there.

I had so much fun and earned so much money (Eday currency) that I asked mummy for another  future visit. Well, let's see how first. Entrance fee is not cheap! RMB150 (RM75) for child and RM50 (RM25) for accompanying adult. Maybe we should go home and try Kidzania first :)

Smaland @ Ikea

This is one of my favourite playlands simply because it is free. It's actually a very simple place with not many things to play inside. Mummy cannot understand why I can play here again and again and again without getting bored of the place! Just look at my number of visits so far...

I get a sticker for each visit (minus a few stickers thrown away)... I have played here over 20 times in just a few months! Oh well, thanks to mummy, for bringing me here almost every week! :p

I usually play here alone. Sometimes, I make new friends but on most days, I'm happy with just playing on my own.

Writing about a girl named Hannah whom I met in Smaland

One of my Smaland playdates with cousin Leanne

Notice the colour of the balls... they are red (well, mostly).

My final entry into Smaland with two friends, VY and VH. I have almost reached the maximum height limit of 130cm (I'm currently at 128cm) so I probably will not get to play here on our next trip back to Malaysia.

Notice the colour of the balls again... they are blue. This was just 2 weeks after my last visit here with Leanne. They DO change and wash the balls after all :)

And being a citizen of Smaland, I've earned enough Dallars to redeem this T-shirt...

The front and back of my cute ladybug tee :)

My 1st Experience on the Lex Slide

I got "bitten by a daredevil bug" at Empire Shopping Gallery recently. Although we've been to this mall many times, never once did I ask for a ride on this. On this particular day, however, I kept begging mummy to let me ride on this...

It is the world's tallest indoor tube slide

The slide spiraling 5 floors down

I met the minimum height requirement of 110cm and that's about the only requirement needed to ride on it

Watch me slide all the way down!

Safe landing... loved it! Can I go on it again???

Second round... Yes! I did it! (RM10 for a single ride and RM15 for 2 rides)

Road Trip to JB - Day 2: Legoland

Here comes Surprise No. 2... Legoland. Actually it wasn't really a surprise for me, no thanks to the adults, for accidentally mentioning the place several times. From their conversations, I picked up hints and knew where we were going but I just played along and pretended to be ignorant hehe...

First of all, mummy felt quite guilty for making me skip 2 days of school. It was concert practice week so I actually didn't miss much at school. This was my first time ponteng-ing school for this year (besides the 3 days of "compassionate leave" taken to attend Yeh Yeh's funeral). After much consideration and self-justification, she felt that being absent for just 5 days in the whole school year isn't that bad after all la...

Day 2 (8th Oct) started with us eager-beavers waking up at 7am for breakfast and reaching Legoland at 9am. The park only opened an hour later at 10am. We killed time by hanging around at the Mall of Medini (the adjoining mall to Legoland).

*Runs* I wanna be the first, I wanna be the first! The whole park entrance was deserted... we were THAT early :p

Yes!! I'm the first visitor of the day (the man in the distant background is a Legoland staff) *happy dance* 

No queue at all at the ticketing counters... 

Saying hello to Legoland's mascot, Ollie the Dragon

The very first ride that caught our attention was this... Aquazone Wave Racers. I think I went on this ride no less than 6 times! 

Driving School... this was one of my favourites

See, I drove on the red car, the blue car and the yellow car, basically all the colours available :p

Flying an aircraft in the Lego City Airport

Putting out fire at the Lego Rescue Academy

Kid Power Towers

Boating School

The Legoland Express... a very colourful choo-choo train that I enjoyed riding on

Taking a spin in the Technic Twister

With the pretzel man in front of The Cafe, where we had lunch

Tuna sandwiches for lunch. The tomatoes (and some other fruits not in pic) were smuggled in by mummy from home :p

Duplo playtown

This was my FAVOURITE ride...  Royal Joust. Since there was no crowd for this ride, I went on it multiple times without having to get down to queue again. 

My very first roller coaster ride. It's a mini one called Dragon's Apprentice. I loved this ride so much that I wanted to ride on it again but too bad, it was closed for maintenance when we came back later

This was the very first thrill ride of my life... The Dino Island. Mummy was very surprised when I said I wanted to ride on this.

S-P-L-A-S-H!!!! It was fun. I was only a bit scared. Daddy and Koo-koo sat in front and surprisingly, both of them remained dry...

As for mummy and I sitting in the 2nd row, we were both drenched! I was soaking wet from my shoulder downwards while mummy was drenched from her waist down... both our shoes were also filled with water! We had to squeeze water out from our socks (we should have just worn our Crocs!)...

The few "drying stations" nearby didn't work and mummy did not bring any spare clothes along... so how? 

Well, we didn't need a dryer after all, especially when the heat from the blazing sun was FOC haha! After a few hours of walking under the hot sun, our clothes were naturally sun-dried. Even mummy's thick denim shorts was thouroughly dried when we left the park at closing time.

Of course, a couple of rounds on spinning rides (with washing machine spin-dry effect) such as this Merlin's Challenge helped too hahaha! 

Huge pharaoh at the Lego Kingdoms

Lost Kingdom Adventure

At the Miniland

Besides watching a 4D movie in the Lego Studios, we also watched a live performance in the City Stage.

Pretending to be asleep beside the snoring man, feeling tired and ready to leave (few minutes to closing time)

Overall, it was 8 hours well-spent in Legoland. The weather was sunny and good. We managed to cover all the rides (except for the 2 big roller coasters for me), we had tonnes of fun, we had a great work-out (sweat like pigs) and we left with a happy heart and a big smile on our faces. The best part about going on a weekday was, there was no crowd at all. There was no need to queue for most of the rides and even if we did, the queuing time was never longer than 5 minutes. Will we come back again? Certainly!