In last week’s article I started to talk about our trip to Legoland Malaysia, if you haven’t read it yet you can check it out here.
When I left off we had just headed down to dinner. There’s not much to say about it other than it was a buffet, which is something Jay always likes. The food was okay, but not as good as you would expect from an expensive hotel, particularly the western dishes. The Asian dishes were better, which is common in Asia with the western dishes never as good as what we get back home, unless you’re really willing to pay for it.
Back in our room, there was a puzzle to solve to open a safe. They have a list of questions Jay had to find the answers to, such as how many scorpions there were in the carpet, numbers on the wall etc. Once he’d answered them all he had the combination to open the safe. He didn’t manage to quite get them all right by bedtime, so he had to continue in the morning. He did manage to get them all before breakfast and upon opening the safe, he was rewarded with a few Lego souvenirs. It was a nice treat the hotel gives to child visitors and he has brought them home and treasures them as a memento of his visit.
After breakfast, we headed off to the theme park. They have a type of passport that you can get stamped when you go on the rides. If you get all the stamps, you can enter into a competition to win a stay at the hotel. Over the course of the day, we managed to go on all the rides and get all the stamps needed, even all 3 roller coasters, the largest of which he had balked at on our previous visit. He did chicken out at the last minute the first time we lined up for it, but after seeing me go alone and telling him it was the best roller coaster there, he did go on it. It’s now his favourite ride and we ended up going on it a half dozen times.
Like the previous day, whilst there were quite a lot of people around, we hardly ever had to wait in queues to get on the rides. This was good as it meant we could easily do all the rides multiple times and easily completed the passport.
Another of our favourites was the 3D movies, which we managed to see 2 showings of. We ended up seeing the same movie twice, but the first time was in English and second time in Chinese. Jay and SO can both speak some Chinese so they understood most of the dialog, but I didn’t understand a word. I guess it was okay though, I remembered enough from the first viewing so that I knew what was happening, but if I hadn’t I would’ve been completely lost.
Jay managed to get his licence from the driving ride this time, which he had failed to do last visit because of the crowds there, and he was proud as punch to get it. We even went on the log ride, which was fun but left us all drenched. The passport we had was soaked though and we had to get a new one. Fortunately that had been earlier in the day, so we easily replaced the stamps we’d already gotten.
Two of Jay’s favourite rides involved shooting, the brand new Ninjago ride, which was one of the few where we had to wait to get on. And the other was the Lost Kingdom Adventure Ride, which we did a couple of times. I think Jay would’ve like to go on the Ninjago ride again, but he was put off by the line. It didn’t matter though, we spent the whole day going from one thing to another and enjoyed everything.
I think this is one of the good things about going to these places with a child, you get to enjoy these things through a kid’s eyes, and it brings enjoyment to things that as adults we are no longer interested in.
Overall, we had a great couple of days there and we all have memories that will last us a lifetime. I’m not sure how much longer he’ll be interested in Legoland. This may be our last visit there, but I hope he’s going to stay young for a few more years. I can see though, that sooner or later he’ll want to go to the bigger parks made for teenagers and adults. I do look forward to taking him to those, but at the same time I want to keep him young for just a bit longer.