It is a public holiday here in Malaysia because we are celebrating the Lunar Chinese New Year! One of the perks living in a multi-cultural country is that we got to experience all kinds of celebration celebrated by different races and religions in this country. And of course, we have lots of public holidays because of that too. My husband's employer decided to give the staff a week of holiday (yes, it's a big organization and very generous!) starting on Thursday until Wednesday the following week. And my daughter's school is closed for a week too to allow everyone to travel to their respective hometowns to have a great time with their family on this auspicious celebration.
I have been waiting for this long holiday because finally, I could take a "real break" and have a good time after being sick for so long. I was not able to celebrate Christmas because I had to spend my Christmas day at the Emergency Room after I had a horrible biliary colic. You can read about it here: I Spent My Christmas Day At The Hospital. Three weeks after Christmas, my husband rushed me to the Emergency Room again for another extremely painful attack and underwent a surgery a couple of days later.
Since November 2017, in total, I had been hospitalized 4 times at 3 different hospitals, 3 trips to the Emergency Room, underwent 5 Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangio-Pancreatography (ERCP) procedures, and finally a cholecystectomy on 16 January 2018, which was exactly a month ago.
It was extremely challenging mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually and financially.
So that is why I am looking forward to this Chinese New Year holiday because it truly is the first time in months I am able to enjoy myself without worrying about my sickness.
So what did we do on the first day of the holiday? We brought the kids to visit the National Planetarium. Sounds dull? Well if you have young children you have to constantly look for kid-friendly places to bring them for some family fun.
And boy, what fun we had!
The first thing we did once we arrived was to buy tickets to watch the educational show. The show was about 30 minutes long and we learned some interesting facts about the solar system. Like for example, do you know that when sunlight hits the moon's surface, the temperature goes up to 127 degrees Celsius and when the sun goes down, the temperature dips to minus 173 C? Extreme!
After the show, we went to explore the exhibition gallery including the anti-gravity room. It was a lot of fun in this room until I forgot to take any picture...duh!
So here are some photos taken at the Planetarium.
My daughter with Yuri Gagarin's bust
We spent a long time in this space lab.
Trying the space toilet!
Playing with some educational apps
The kids in the replica of Soyuz's capsule. They got to pretend they are in the rocket. Spent a long time here too.
And that's it about our trip to the planetarium. It was very tiring and although I look well on the outside I still can't over exert myself after the surgery. And that's why we decided not to plan any trip today but stay at home to rest. However, we want to visit the National Muzium tomorrow and of course to visit the Cartoon and Us Exhibition. Stay tuned for my next post!
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