Saturday 26 March 2011

Our road trip to Kota Kinabalu

26th March 2011

We are currently enjoying our Term 2 school holiday which started on 19th March and will end on 3rd April (a week later than the government schools). As promised, mummy took her leave from work the whole time we are at home after we complained of how bored we were last December when both our parents were working while we stay home with nothing much to do.

As one of our activities, mummy has been planning for quite some time with Nini Laki and Nini Bini for a short holiday in Kota Kinabalu. Although flights are available, we decided to go on a road trip instead using two cars.

Our journey began on Monday the 21st just before 6 am. Safwan seemed to know that we were going somewhere; he woke up early, had an early breakfast and took a warm bath. Safiya and I on the other hand, were still asleep and we didn't realise when our parents lifted us up from the bed and we continued sleeping in the car. Yup, we were still in our PJs! Hehehe.....! We did change afterwards, of course! Halfway through the journey, we slept some more...

There wasn't too much traffic but defeinitely lots of Brunei registered cars were on the same route that we were taking. We arrived in KK around noon and we straight away rested at our pre-booked apartment at Marina Court, right at the heart of the city. We had lunch at the apartment since Nini Bini and mummy brought already cooked meals from home.

Too tired from the journey, our drivers (Nini Laki and daddy) felt asleep the whole afternoon. It was only at night when Nini Laki and bungsu Hazim went out searching for our dinner.

We practically had only two days to spend in KK, excluding Monday and Thursday which we spent on the road. Unfortunately, Safwan had a mild fever during the last two days, and the weather didn't allow us much time outdoors. It was raining every afternoon. As such, we did not go visit any interesting places but spent time shopping instead. Perhaps we'll do that next time, but we definitely need at least a week for that purpose.

Here are some pictures of us enjoying the delicious foods and having some leisure time swimming on our last day before heading home.


Our last stop was the markets where we buy our supplies of dried shrimps, anchovies and fish. We took the opportunity to take a few pictures in front of the South China Sea.


Overall, it was a great and fun adventure!

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