In this school holiday, Isabel has 2 weeks off, but Ian has only 1 week. I planned to bring him out on Thursday, just the 2 of us, for some activities that he likes. Well, just the 2 of us, because what Isabel likes are usually different from Ian. If I bring her too, she won’t enjoy.
Ian loves movies, I planned to bring him to the cinema.
But… after checking the list of shows in the cinema, I realized that, there is no show suitable for kids. All about monsters, aliens, killer robots (terminator), ghost, etc. I don’t want to answer all those difficult questions from Ian…
Then, DH suggested Petrosains. I agree it is the best option now that we have been there!!
It opens at 9:30am. We arrived at 10am, bought tickets to Dinotrek for 10:30am, and Petrosains for 12 noon. The ‘volunteers’ told us that we only need 30 min at Dinotrek and about 2 hours at Petrosains. So, I thought we could have early lunch at 11′ish…
Well, he was wrong!! Ian loved the Dinotrek. 30 min ended up became 1.5 hours. We left Dinotrek at 12 noon!!
DinoTrek is a mini dinosaur exhibition. Ian just loves to ask questions, and he is interested in EVERY SINGLE ITEMS! We could spend 5 min at 1 booth. There are games that are quite attractive to my boy. He is fascinated with those dinosaurs, now that he can remember some of the names.
Here is a site where a Velociraptor fighting a Protoceratops.
And here is a Spinosaurus. In Jurassic Park 3, Spinosaurus was the ’star’ that killed T-Rex. But according to the exhibition, it is hard to tell who is stronger in history, because they existed in different time zone, and different geographical area. But this Spinosaurus look really scary. Ian said it ‘looks at him’!!
Because we were late, we went straight in to Petrosains, thinking that we could catch a late lunch at about 2pm… but we were wrong again!!!
We did not spend 2 hours, but nearly 4 hours!!! And we skipped so many booths!! There are just so many things to see, and Ian was interested in everything! I needed to rush him through, or else we would be there till late evening.
Well, initially Ian was reluctant to enter, because he was scared of the ride up to the center. It was a slow ride, but he was a bit phobia ever since returning from HK Disneyland, after riding the Space Mountain.
After the initial ride, he was attracted by all those gadgets. He would pull every handle, press every button, navigate every track balls…
And he also had a chance to operate a DIGGER!!! It is like a real digger, smaller scale of course. He dig some real black sand. It was so fun that he played again and again (queue up again and again). I let him do that, without realizing how many more sections to go!!!
By 2pm, we only finished 1/2 of the exhibition. And then I found out they have helicopter simulation flight, to visit ‘oil plant’. That, we have to queue 30 min. White waiting, he continued to play some of the games, like interacting with images on the walls, etc. Very fun – the items on the wall images react with our shadows.
The helicopter simulation flight was so real. I could feel that we were ascending, going through thunder storm… etc. It was really worth waiting that 30 min. LOL!
Then, we skipped lots of those stuff about oil, racing, geology, etc. It was already 3pm, so I really couldn’t spend more time. We were so hungry, thirsty and tired. And I had blisters on my soles too!!
Before leaving, there was a section where we could do ‘art work’, by shooting ‘colour paints’ on the screen (all digital). There were 3 ‘color paint guns’, each with one primary color – Red, Yellow and Blue (Ian says they were red, green and blue – another sign of his colorblind). We could save the images and email to our personal address. Here is one:
We finally left and had our lunch at 4pm (BurgerKing – faster!). And before we left, Ian saw the Lego booth, and begged me to let him play for a while.
They have a lot of Lego buildings around, including a KL Twin Tower. I didn’t take a photo of that, coz too many people around. But this mosque is so pretty too. I think it is even more beautiful than the Twin Tower.
Finally, we left at 4:50pm. I paid RM18 for the car park. The parking rate was a killer! Tickets to both DinoTrek and Petrosains cost RM20 for both of us (RM15 adult, RM5 children). With the car park, and RM2 drinks purchased at vending machine, totaled up to RM40. That is excluding lunch.
What an expensive outing for just the 2 of us. Tiring too – Ian said he wanted to skip milk and go straight to sleep at night! However, it is all worthy, especially if you have a kid who loves science as much as my boy. He is curious about just EVERYTHING down to the every single bolt and nut, and every single button. He always think every item is there for a reason. So if there is a redundant button, he would keep asking why, why, why and why… LOL!
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