The Ride

I guess what the kids enjoyed most out of the KK trip was the airplane ride and swimming in the pools. Anyways, those were the only driving factor for them to open their eyes at the twilight hour on a Sunday morning. Just whispered in their ears, and the sleepyheads quickly pranced out of bed.

"Do you want to ride the aeroplane?", these are the magic words.

"Mana aeroplane?" Amir was asking, and I told him to get ready first and we'll go to the airport to take the ride.

And when we were ready for the cab at 4:50am, Amir decided to plant his feet down. "Nanak naik that car, nak car ni," while pointing to my car.

Had to explain to him that my car will be lonely at the airport because we're going to leave it there anyway. He bought the idea, but then was covering his nose the whole trip to KLIA LCCT.

"Smelly!" was his complaint about the smell of the cab, you know that kind of pungent smell whenever you take a cab.... And he kept doing that even before we board any cab that we took in KK.

After checking in our luggage, we had a lean breakfast at McDonald's, also trying to rush the time for boarding. Since we know that you can't bring outside food on Air Asia, we made sure the kids are fed. But at 6 in the morning, they could not have more than a hash brown and a slice of sausage.

The comes boarding time, we actually missed the call for passengers with kids because of the toilet visit. I didn't want any of them to make a scene in the plane later.

Upon seeing the Airbus on the tarmac, all three of them are already excited, and rushed ourselves to the staircase as it was drizzling. Since we were quite late, we only secured 1 row of 3 seats, while the other 2 had to be at another row away. Of course, them kids were fighting for the window seat! And Aina got the seat, while Abang sat with Papa, with the promise that they will swap places later.

Once settled, and the plane towing away to the runaway, Amir started to unbuckle his seatbealt and wanted to take the window seat. I have not been been able to sit still since the time we boarded the plane, and now Amir wanted to get out of his seatbelt! And it's already take-off time! I had to hold him down to his seat saying that the plane would be racing soon. That actually kept him down for a while until we were in the air.

The thought of catching a nap in a 2.5hr flight had to be parked aside. Amir kept getting in and out of his seat, going up and down the aisle and switching places with his brother and sister. If this is how he's going to behave in an airplane, I told Papa that we should definitely postpone our dreams of taking them to Disneyworld until Amir is mature enough to sit still at least, maybe when he's 8 years old!

Thank God Air Asia in-flight menu is limited! I'm glad it's not a flying Tesco, otherwise we would be broke to the bone...