Family Bash at Atlantic College Grounds

I am now back in Tenby, Wales. It's cold outside with temperatures below 10 celcius. I have been a little under the weather with a bout of cough that had lingered since Bintulu and the cold does not auger well for this cough. I arrived London on Sunday morning travelling straight from Bintulu and stopping over in PeeJay only for a couple of hours to pick up essentials to be brought to Tenby. One of Fahrul's colleague was in the same flight with me and he had arranged ground transport to Tenby, so I had a ride and company travelling from London to Wales. It was very cold that morning. Snow, which fell a couple of days ago was still on the grounds along some parts of the route. I noticed a couple of stray wild deers along the way, apparently looking for food and getting away from the cold jungle.

Fahrul's colleagues and families (four families) had planned an outing to Atlantic College, a private college, located near St Donats, by the coast South of Wales. There are several Malaysian students in the college, all at pre-U level, and one celebrating his birthday, is the son of a close acquaintance of all the families while another was a relative of one of the families. This trip was planned as a surprise birthday visit.
The two of us from London met up with the families at one of the rest areas along the highway. Ram, Najla and Fahrul came in one car and I joined them from there. It was about 10am and the weather was fine but windy and cold. On arrival at the college and after meeting up with the two students we spent some time touring the sprawling and hilly campus grounds, after toilet service of course, and located a nice picnic spot somewhere in the lower grounds of the complex. The birthday boy was really caught by surprise with our presence and with the little kids running and playing gave that added family affair to him. The weather too changed for the better as the day progressed on and we could shed the thick coats we had on in the morning. With the children running and playing it was merriment all round.
There was food and more food that day. The families agreed earlier on 'pot luck' but when each family prepared food more than enough for four families we ended up having food more than enough for 4x4 families. By afternoon we had most of the Malaysian students in the college joining us and there were still more food left. I think all of them had something to 'take away' at the end of the day!!

Najla, as usual started slow. She really takes her own time to warm up to her friends. She was crappy initially, having been awakened from her nice snuggly slumber during the travel in the car, but brightened up later, with all the attention given to her by the elder children. Soon she was running around and there was no stopping her then.




We left the college at about 3.30pm and stopped over at Bridgend Designer outlet for a spot of shopping, on ladies' request that was. Najla was more interested in the childrens' rides and I, I was more interested to get into bed heh heh! It was about 7pm by the time we reached home, pooped and exhausted but it was a good outing nevertheless. The Malaysian students had a surprise meeting up with the families within the college grounds and the birthday boy really had a surprise party put up specially for him. It made the day everybody's day, and the kids? they all had a gala time............

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Tenby, Wales