Our ESCAPE-ing day

No no no, we are not escaping to anywhere, but we are heading to the Escape theme park at Teluk Bahang. It's a new place for Penangnites as well as visitors to Penang.This park was officially opened in Nov, and after hearing good feedback from friends, we decided to give a try and of course, to bring the 2 kids along. We actually supposed to visit the park a week ago, however, due to some myself and the kids not feeling well, so we postponed the plane to a week later, With this, myself and hub do received lots of "complain" from the kids, LOL! So on the night before, we told the kids that we will be leaving to the park quite early and very cooperatively, they went to bed and dozed off fairly quick.

We woke up a little bit earlier than our usual weekday schedule, both me and hubb quickly get ourselves ready before we wake the two kids up. We headed to the coffee shop at Island Glades for breakfast before the long journey to Teluk Bahang.

We reached the park around 9:45am, and there's lots of car at the parking lot. As we walked nearer to the park, we can heard the cheering sound coming from the park. To our surprise, today, our Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng will be there too for his birthday celebration as well as opening ceremony of the Escape theme park. Entrance ticket is not cheap though, kids who over 4 years old need to pay entrance ticket regardless their height, and cash is not being used in the theme park, thus, we need to get a so called "park card" whereby we can load an amount of money into the card and used it for meal and games. Some games, such as Discovery Dig, tattoo/face painting/ craft at learning house.

As soon as we stepped into the park. we were amazed by the games called "Monkey Business". It's game where  the player get to climb like a pro at various level (total of 3 levels) and balancing them-self on the rope. We do not let Kelvin try on this as he is still not ready for this tough challenge yet.

 

Zoom Bug

Right beside the Monkey business games, there's a warm up games for young kids, "zoom bug". Kaitlyn only ride for less than half of the ring and she gave up, obviously, she is till not in the mood yet. As for Kelvin, he rode for more than 2 rounds, LOL! 

As we were walking towards the tubby race area, we passed by "dig discovery" counter. This is one of the educational section for the kids as well as adult whereby it takes you back to the early days of Malaysia’s mining history. At here, the kids will get to find gems and ‘gold’ hidden in sand, soil and streams. 

After this, we proceeded for the first fun family game, "tubby racer" whereby the participants need to pull the tubby tube to almost a distance of 2.5 storey height, then slide down from there. The pulling up journey is tiring as we need to walk up the small and narrow up ramp tiny alley and furthermore, we need to walk up with the 2 kids as well. Luckily, no complain from both of them, phew! And finally, we reached the top, i slide down with Kaitlyn, meanwhile Kelvin slides down with daddy. At first, hubb a bit worry and refuse to slide down with Kelvin, and for me, i love all these games, so after i double triple confirm with Kaitlyn and she said she is ok, in the count of 1,2,3, both of us slides down happily., Along the way, i kept asking her to close her eyes, checking at her whether she's afraid or not, to my surprise, she's not afraid at all, and she even asked for another round, LOL! At last, i bet hubb can't turn down Kelvin's request, he slided down with Kelvin too.

 After Tubby race, we headed to the next area which is something like the mini version of Monkey business for starter. At first, i was so worry that Kaitlyn will not complete the whole adventure, however, looks like my worry is wasted. She completed the whole adventure without any help from us nor Kelvin. As for Kelvin, he just do it all by himself too, i think it's fairly easy and less challenging for him though :) At the end of the adventure, the kid get to slide down on their own.

Our next stop is  the mini rock climbing area before we headed to "Go Ape". Go ape is the activity whereby the adult and kid can climb on tree. Of course, they have smaller tree for kid and bigger tree for adult. Kaitlyn dare not climb up further after 1 attempt, meanwhile Kelvin tried few attempts before he give up.

After Go Ape, we headed to Foxy Burrow, and this game is strictly for kids under 12 years old, no parents is allowed to tag along in the cave. However, no worry, there is CCTV outside for parents and the park people to observe the kids movement. It's a caving adventure, so kids need to climb over rocks, squeeze through gaps and duck under obstacles to complete this caving adventure!And the kid need to follow the instruction clearly else they will kept heading to dead end in the cave. In the event of exhausted or give up, the kid will need to stand in front of the CCTV, crossed their hand on their chest, and the person in charge will rescue them.

Now, the most exciting games time, Gecko tower. The park is very considerate whereby they do have one section for kids or beginners. Since i am not so keen with this climbing activity, so by default, daddy need to accompany Kelvin for this games.

We spend 3 hours in the park and we decided to call the day off. Before we leave the park, the kids requested to have another round of zoom bug. And last but not least, they get to snap their pic outside of the park before we officially say bye bye to the park. We will re-visit the park again in next time.