Another Trip To Bintulu

Four weeks ago I surfed the Air Asia website and found that they were offering seats to Bintulu at RM 49.99 for June 18th and RM39.99 for the return trip on July 4th . The timing was also quite right as according to Shaffik he will be away from Bintulu for about a week, leaving Mini and the kids behind, sometime in between those dates. Ram agreed and I booked the flights on those dates.

Three days before our trip Sita had some work to do in KL and stayed in the Putrajaya Marriot. We went along with her to look after baby Najla while she was away at work. Najla did not give much problem while her mother was away at work. I took the opportunity to use the gym, sauna and spa. They have good facilities there. It was refreshing and invigorating.

On Saturday 18th. Tessa sent us to KLIA for us to catch the Air Asia flight to Bintulu. Sita with Najla followed as her flight to return back to Kerteh was 3 hours behind ours. Our flight was on time. We learnt later that Sita’s flight was delayed by about an hour.

Shaffik came alone to fetch us at Bintulu airport. The kids were apparently having their afternoon sleep. They were awake when we arrived at the house and the two boys rushed to the car to greet us. They helped in carrying the baggage without us asking. And when inside the house they played but kept touching the bags, taking close look at them, asking me why it is locked and so on. I know what they were after and I pretended not to notice to keep them in suspense!! At one stage they quarreled and Babang cried. To pacify him I ask both of them to help me open the bags. Babang immediately stopped crying and both of them rushed to the bags. When I took out the toys (I had bought them a remote control toy car each) they were jumping with glee and immediately tore open the boxes, not open but tore open!! Then began the racing around of toy cars, knocking the walls and furniture!! In one of my previous trips I had bought each of them smaller and cheaper battery operated cars that had wired controls, the type that the kids have to run along with the car. Both cars lasted only one day. This was because the two cars wires got entangled and instead of disentangling them they just pull and snapped the wires. That was the end of it. This time the cars are still operating in spite of the hard knocks and accidents. Dedek seems to enjoy racing the car into the walls and furniture. Accident….. he will shout each time he runs it into the wall. There were a lot of zooming around and knocking into each other the rest of the evening. To get them to eat at meal time was quite a problem!!

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