Actually it's work cum holiday. It was an offsite meeting with my clients, and my principal wanted to hold it away from the office, so they decided to go to Kota Kinabalu. At the same time, my clients could also meet my other client based in KK.
Since my brother works for Air Asia, and got free tickets to spare, I decided to take the opportunity to take the kids along, and forced my hubby to take time off from work, so he could babysit them. So it's like a free holiday for them. After all, it has been quite some time since our last holiday in Cherating in 2004. The kids were definitely excited, and it would be the first airplane ride for Aina & Amir.
We stayed in the Pacific Sutra at the Sutra Harbour Resort, with excellent view of the sea. Amir especially liked the sailboats that were docked at the Marina Club, but of course we didn't have time to go island-hopping due to the time constraint.
It was also Amir's first on the cab, and on the free city-shuttle bus taking us from the hotel to town. KK is a flat city, calm and quiet. And since it's famous for the cheap ikan bilis and ikan kering, we hunted those items down first at the Central Market, next to the Filipino Market. You can actually get good grades peeled ikan bilis at RM13 per kg, compared to the peeled Pangkor ikan bilis sold at Giant for RM22.90/kg.
At the Filipino Market, the eye-catcher was definitely the crystal accessories and pearls. Of course the pearls are no way close to Mikimoto pearls, but some people got attracted to those accessories. Somehow I just didn't know what to buy from there. It just didn't click. We just got a few tree-bark pencil cases for the kids.
Adam of course just couldn't wait to go into the pool. We arrived early on Sunday morning, so Adam was incessantly asking when we could go swimming. Earlier on, I was pleasantly surprised because it was easy waking the kids up at 4.15am and asked them to take their shower. Of course it was Aina who woke up first. Perhaps it was all due to their eagerness to board the plane to go to some faraway land.
To me, as long as the kids are happy being somewhere away from home during the school holidays, it's good enough for us parents. Though it was just a 3-day 2-night trip, it was great for them.
I haven't elaborated on how Amir behave on the plane...next entry!
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