Holiday in KL

During the recent long holiday weekend (Harvest Festival holiday: 28 - 31 May 2011), our family of four plus my mum hopped on a plane and flew to KL. The trip had been planned for ages.

Initially we wanted to do a road trip driving and exploring the east side of Peninsular Malaysia. Duh. We chickened out - couldn't risk that with a couple of infants traveling with us. Maybe next time when they're older.

Then, we wanted to go to Cameron Highlands. However, since Alan would only be about 2 months and Mia is at the stage where she can't stand being stuck in one place for too long, the 4 hour journey from KL to Cameron Highlands may be too much for us to handle.

Finally, we opted for just KL. Not touring but a relaxed shopping holiday. Relaxed as in take our time to shop.

We stayed at the Gardens Residences while we were in KL.

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Our home away from home for 3 nights

It's a full serviced apartment complete with a fully functioning kitchen, a dining room and living room. We took the 2-bedroom apartment. Each bedroom has its own en-suite.

The master bedroom and ensuite. We asked for a baby crib for Alan.

The 2nd bedroom with twin beds. I forgot to take a picture of its ensuite.

Their curtain is the same as ours in our living room at home! The stroller on right is one of the first thing we bought in KL. It's for Alan. This was a planned purchase. I like this stroller a lot because 1) Its super light (4.3kg) 2) Folds easily and 3) can switch from front facing to rear facing. Yes, its the Combi stroller!

First thing I did when we entered the apartment was to take away all breakables eg vase, ceramic bowls/plates, cookware and glass lids. Safety first.

The Gardens Residences is beautiful, convenient and worked well for us for this trip because it was a shopping holiday! The Gardens Mall is downstairs, Midvalley Megamall is linked to the Gardens Mall.

We could easily go to Midvalley Megamall from the Lower Ground, Ground, 1st & 2nd Floor. I've forgotten now whether we could access it from the 3rd floor.

Gardens Mall is on the left, Midvalley Megamall is on the right. This picture was taken on the 1st floor link.

At the time we were there, Midvalley Megamall was having this huge "Pirates of the Caribbean" display, complete with a pirate ship and costumes used for the movie.

If we wanted to go anywhere else, we'll just take a taxi. Which we did. We went to IKEA and bought kids stuff. I wanted to go to IKEA not so much for shopping but more to getting some inspiration for organising and decorating our home. But I'm a sucker for cute kids stuff so there.

Yes, we shopped a fair bit but 90% of the shopping (100% @ IKEA) was for the kids. Isn't that always the case now?!