Ye Olde Smokehouse, CH

Ye Olde Smokehouse

We went to Cameron Highlands 2 weeks ago for our pre-wedding photo shoot. Why CH? Well, simply because of the temperature there. I initially wanted to take our pre-wedding shots at the beach, but it would have been super HOT. Both Sam & I sweat a lot, imagine me with make up on and sweating like mad...eeewwww...what an ugly sight it would have been. So Sam suggested somewhere cooling like Bukit Tinggi, but after I spoke with Zung from The Photoz, he suggested CH and told me that The Smokehouse & The Lakehouse would be nice and even the scenery at CH would be better compared to BT, and I thought, ya, why not? I am more comfortable with CH and have not been there for a long time. Then, Sam had this idea of asking his friends to join us for this trip to also take some group wedding photos with us. Cool...so we started off with reserving a few rooms...then we ended up booking the whole hotel because it only had 13 rooms for 33 guests in total and since we could come up with a group of 33 people, and could get a good discount, we booked the place for 2 nights, Saturday-Monday, and arranged for the photo shoot for Sat & Sun. My brother & family also joined us for a night.

Me & Jern

Transport arrangements were made and everyone was excited about the trip and the photo shoot especially the girls. I am impressed that some of them went all out to buy dresses for this photo shoot...some of the guys also went out and bought a suit...hahaha...we were really touched and happy. Although there were some things that pissed us off, but those are things that I will not allow to ruin my trip and happy thoughts and memories of this trip, so I shall not mention them or talk about it here...

Jern enjoying himself...walking around the hotel...

Before, the photo shoot, I already expected that we'd have a difficult time doing the shoot, but I never expected that we would be that BAD...hahaha...we were really really bad and stiff. We were so unnatural :D Well, now we know...The photographer usually takes natural shots of couples talking, playing & having fun, but we were so stiff and had nothing to say...hahaha...he was like...ok, converse...and we would both look at each other and laugh cos we have nothing to say...hahaha...we could not think of anything to say at all...to the extent we started singing nursery rhymes instead...it was fun but I was hoping for natural shots, but we couldn't, so ours will be posey shots :( but I hope it turns out ok...hahaha...

My bouquet for the photo shoot

The whole trip was fun and I think everyone enjoyed themselves and since we had the whole hotel to ourselves,...actually, Thank Goodness we had the whole hotel to ourselves, we were soooo noisy. On the first night there, they drank so much, most of them were drunk and they were shouting sooo loud. Running & walking around so loudly. The Smokehouse is more than 70 years old, so the floors creak and we can hear the room next door very clearly...hahaha...the moment we arrived we gave all the couples a warning...please "do it" QUIETLY cos ur neighbours will hear you loud and clear...muahahahaha...I went to bed early cos I had to make sure I have enough sleep to continue the photo shoot the next day, but I couldn't sleep because of all the noise and ended up sleeping after everyone K.O. and the whole hotel was quiet. I was so worried that I would wake up the next day to find the hotel all wrecked and the furniture broken...luckily they didn't break anything, I was surprised...hahaha...it was madness, but the hotel was so accommodating, they gave such excellent service, we were so impressed. They thought we were a bunch of fun people. I think they probably needed some excitement since CH is such a boring place :P They did not give us "the" look, in fact, they were so friendly and nice and so accommodating. I only have good things to say about their service.

Foggy evening on Saturday after a drizzle...

I hope everyone had fun, cos Sam & I did and we enjoyed ourselves so much. It was a good trip :)