On 3 April 2011, we went to Penang for the wedding of Jonathan Chen and Yvonne Mapphy. We took the chance to meet old friends, visit around Penang, and let Josiah have fun.
After breakfast at Kayu (where the roti tiga rasa is still quite good), we stopped by a playground outside some flats in Taman Lip Sin.
Josiah had fun running about. A little trepidatious at the super tall slide, but in the end he went down a few times. When it was time to go, he stood at the top of one slide and did the ‘more’ hand motion that daddy does with him when having fun.
We stayed at G Hotel where the wedding was to be held, which is expensive but really classy. While waiting to check in, they served four little cups of really nice ice-cream.
Our room was spacious – and obviously lots and lots of fun for Josiah.
We went to Batu Feringghi beach without a nap for Josiah… But he was too tired and didn’t even want to set foot on the beach (which he loved during KCC family camp).
He didn’t wake up until just on the way back from dinner at Gurney hawker centre with our USM friends.
The next morning, here he is hiding inside a cabinet:
And under the covers:
And then it was swimming time! In the kids pool, he stumbled and fell face into water four times, and almost a fifth time. Each time he just got back up again with daddy’s help.
And contented nap.
We had to check out in the afternoon, so we spent the time at Gurney Plaza. Kuey teow thong for Josiah.
Had to force him to sleep while waiting back at the hotel. Daddy sang songs to him while holding him, and fell asleep just before he did. The song lyrics became slurred and missing words.
He woke up from the clapping at the wedding ceremony. And joined in, got to love the way he chucks aside the shirt:
Wedding group photo:
And lack of sitting still, as usual. He actually didn’t like the balloon tied to his waist for long, and then wanted to go into the lift, and got upset every time it opened back at the wedding reception floor. At the swimming pool floor, he tripped and fell off two steps onto his face onto hard tile, poor thing.
