Everyday after picking up Nadiah from NASOM, I usually take her out for a bite or just driving around Alor Star. It's really good fun especially when she enjoys it so much. Sometimes hubby would join us but most of the time it's just me a Nadiah.
This week we went to Burger Gemilang, to the new KFC/Pizza Hut that had just opened in the old Cathay cinema spot, to Souq Albukhary and Dataran Tanjung Chali.
Burger Gemilang - This is not the Burger Gemilang that's in Medan Kota. But rather the new one which is next to the State Museum and along the river. We like coming here because ,for the most part the burgers are great and also it's a nice quiet outdoor place especially late afternoos and you can just gaze out to the river. Granted, nothing hardly ever passes by but the odd crocodile or so, but it's still nice to look out at the sun setting.
Although the museum is just next door, we've never actually been into it. I went in the old one like ages ago but never in the new one. But there are a few cannon guns at the arch separating the museum from the eatery, which is a good spot for pictures.
Nadiah playing around with baba's phone while waiting for her food
Souq Albukhary - or more commonly know as Giant because of the hypermarket being the anchor at the place. We mostly go to Giant shop for groceries, to Merrybrown to eat and get some DVDs. Very seldom do we go to the bazaar in the next building to Giant because although it's suppose to be somewhat like Pekan Rabu, the 'feel' is just not there. Not to mention that most of the shops are always closed.
Nadiah loves eating at Merrybrown though, because they have the swing set eating corner and she just loves swinging back and forth while having her fries :D
New KFC/Pizza Hut - A couple of days ago, me and Nadiah went to Pizza hut at the new spot, which was the former Cathay cinema. It's a big place with KFC and PH side by side and a playground in the mid front. As usual, Nadiah would have her speghetti bolognese with a glass of iced milo, which she would whoosh down so fact you'd think she hasn't eaten in a week!!
Then she rushed out to sit on the swing set and starts rocking back and forth so high I was afraid the speghetti and milo might make a reappearance.
Dataran Tanjung Chali - After PH, we drove along the river in Tanjung Chali and stopped to take some pictures of Nadiah. It's really quiet here in the evening although the tide was out and so the water level had gone down. But the best thing was that there was no bad river smell which usually accompanies low tide. And it's surprisingly clean too!!
Got some really good pics of Nadiah overlooking the sunset which would be good to scrap.
But I have to say that since the last time we went there, the tower standing at the end of the Dataran has been repainted into this UGLY green and yellow colour. Yes, I know that it's the colour of Kedah but still, it so does not go with the place and is such an eyesore I refuse to take pictures of it!!
Can you see the green and yellow tower at the end there? How ugly is that? And it's not even fully painted. It's as if someone painted it half-way and thought '"Hey.. this looks kinda ugly, why don't we just stop now before we ruin everythig?" Sheesh!!!
Anyway, it's definitely fun going around places once in a while. I know there are more things to see in Alor Star that I could take Nadiah too, but I'm seriously running out of places. Any ideas???
