We chose the Buffet. In the starters there was Live Salad, Fried Chicken with Garlic or Hot Garlic sauce among some other mouthwatering dishes. I went with the Fried Chicken. Then came the Main Course. There were Hakka Noodles, Curried Mac and Cheese, Daal, Shahi Paneer, Rumaali Roti, Steamed Rice. I ate Curried Mac and Cheese, Rice and Shahi Paneer. They were very nice. Then while my parents and Gurbani were still eating their food, I went and grabbed myself a plate of Ice Cream. Then I also tried Chocolate Mousse which was so soft, creamy and yummy that I ate three plates full.

Then we went to Ambience Mall. We parked our car in the parking and went to the first floor.

There we took an inside Golf Cart Ride inside the mall on the first floor. I and Gurbani were sitting on the back where there was no handle to hold, so we were jumping in and out of the back seat to the ground. One time we couldn’t jump back in, so the cart had to stop.

Then we went to Stellar’s Museum. We brought two tickets, one each for me and Gurbani. It was free for the adults.

So we went inside the museum. We went into the first room. There were hoops there and we had to make paper planes and make them go inside them. There was a pipe which pumped air into one of six big glass containers which made its contents levitate. Then just beside it was a log tube which extended from behind the six containers and below it and we had to put in a ball which would come back through the same place 45 seconds later. Then there was a mini race track around the size of a table on which we had to make cars with blocks and make them race. Beside that was a board covered with glass and it had iron filling inside it and we had to make patterns with the iron fillings.

Then we went to the next room. There was a big car frame on which we had to put plastic sheets, steel plates and nuts and bolts. Along that were big thin cardboards with which we had to make helicopters and innovative things like that. Then there was a pile of many Jenga blocks and we could even make a palace the height of an infant with it. At the back wall there was a metallic whiteboard on which gears including one gear which rang a bell and two gears for holding and moving the others. We had to arrange the gears in such a way that when we move the first gear the bell rings.

Then there were some household items made out of steel nailed to the wall and there was a drumstick with it. We could make music of different tones and voices by just hitting on them with the sticks.

There was also a long and wide tube with two inflated globes in it and we had to push the globes through small holes to the top where it would touch a bell and ring it.

Then we went into the next room which was made like a city. There were sections divided for market, house, kitchen, Doctor’s clinic and many more common places in the Doctor’s clinic there was even a machine which detected your heart beat rate and played a drum according to it. In the market, there were artificial vegetables and fruits.

Then there were also some tubes and some slippers outside the room to make music we could hit on the hollow tubes with the slippers and then voices would come depending on the size of the tube.

Then there was a room which had some things related to each continent. And there was also a sheet in each continent listing the general facts. And there was a box in each continent on which there were two buttons, Population and Water. If we pressed on Water, all the part of that continent which had water was highlighted in blue and if we pressed Population, the area of that continent where people lived was highlighted in red. First came Antartica, it had a tunnel to which a fan was attached to make it feel like Antartica. Then came Europe, there were some souvenirs from Europe and even a smellbox which contained some smells native to Europe.  Then came Asia, it also had a smellbox. The next was Australia. It even had a board which had four columns Speak, Listen, Hear and Smell. And each of them had a button. If we pressed on Hear button, the native voice would be heard and so on. Then came Africa. It had the same things as Australia. Then the Americas. It also was the same as Australia.

There was also a birthday party area in the end which also had a play area. Then I went to the play area. It had a tree hut like appearance. There was also one more place where there was a bridge connecting two mini towers which had holes in them for the children to pass through.

Then there was a big room which had a big table full of water and there were water wheels, boats, water barriers and many more things. From both the ends of the table water was flowing out into the main table. I played with it for 15 minutes testing different water barriers and many more things.

Besides that was a painting Glass for small children. Gurbani drew paintings on the glass. Then we came out as our time was up.

It was a very fun filled day.

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On 2^nd June 2014, I and mama went to Ripley’s Believe It or Not Museum, Royal Garden Plaza Mall, Walking Street, Pattaya, Thailand. I was asking mama to take me to the Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Museum for two days since our flight landed in Bangkok and we went to Pattaya in a taxi and in the way, I saw the Museum from outside. We bought the tickets for 500 THB (1000 INR) per person for three attractions in a Louis Tussaud’s Waxwork’s Promotion. There were eight attractions in the whole Museum-

• Believe It or Not!
• 12 D Theatre
• Sky Rider
• Scream in the Dark
• Infinity Maze
• Louis Tussaud’s Waxworks
• Haunted House
• The Vault

In the Louis Tussaud’s Waxworks Promotion, it was compulsory to see Louis Tussaud’s Waxworks and you could choose any two more attractions except the Sky Rider. So we chose Believe It or Not! and

12 D Theatre. First we went to 12 D Theatre. The next movie was to start after about 15 minutes. So we waited in the waiting area. The waiting area was like the inside of an Alien Spaceship. In the waiting area, we also met three Indians. Then the door of the theatre opened and Thai songs were played. After ten more minutes, the movie started. The movie’s name was “Bamboo Adventure.” The 12 D Effects were so lifelike that when the mosquitoes and bats were coming in the movie, I actually started moving my hands in the air hoping to hit the mosquitoes and bats. After that a chimpanzee also threw a banana on us. I had very much fun watching the movie. After that, we went to Believe It or Not! When we entered, we saw a large tap which was in midair and water was coming out of it. But actually there was a very clear and transparent plastic tube and water was going upwards not downwards. After that there was a small open room made in a corner and whenever somebody came in front of the room. A 3 D Projection of Robert Ripley came on the chair and told all about Robert Ripley, The founder of Ripley’s. I was scared and when I started to walk away from there, he said “Where are you going?” Then there was a very big chair which dwarfed me. After that, there was a 3 D Gem which looked real. There was a very strong magnet and a colour television and when we moved the magnet over the television screen, the colours on the television screen changed. There was also Charlie Chaplin carved on the eye of a needle. Then we went upstairs and there was a real dead horse named Bottoms who had only three legs. There was also a very small two-headed snake. There we met two other Indians also. There were also life-size statues of some famous people like The Tallest Man ever, The Shortest Man ever, The Greatest Glutton ever, etc. After that we saw the world’s largest Beer Can collection. Then there was a model of Titanic made entirely out of matchsticks. Then there were many models of fishes. There was also a real Shark Liver. After that it, ended. It was the best part of the whole Museum. Then we went to Louis Tussaud’s Waxworks. In the entrance, there was a wax model of Mr. Bean. When we entered there were many wax models such as Jackie Chan, Michael Jackson, Miley Cyrus, David Beckham, etc. Then there were Lord Buddha made out of bells. After that there was also Harry Potter and his best friend, Hermione Granger. Then there were many leaders such as Gandhiji, Nelson Mandela, Barrack Obama and Mother Teresa. There was a man who was hanging in the air and doing work on a computer and there was written “Mission Impossible.” Then we saw many villains. After that, we saw Batman and his friends. Then there was a wax model of Johnny Depp sitting on a barrel. The whole Museum was Amazing.

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