We started so many tradition this year! Ha! Ha! Maybe that is one of the sign that I am getting older! We love to settle for stability and norms! Well this is one of them... It is to bring both our parents (My mom and my hubby's dad) for a trip each year! We realize that as time passed very quickly, we should never take our parents for granted! As we mature and grow they also are not getting any younger! I always wanted to treat them the best I can (although at times we do disagree (with my mom) and I do get agitated (with my FIL)) when they are still around! As we were given to them by God when we were a child and they did their best to bring us up, now it is our turn to treat them as a gift that we should appreciate no matter what!
So hubby and I as much as we are blessed would love to bless our parents! The best thing about holiday is that we get to spend time together and at the same time enjoy exploring new places together! This year we choose Sabah! As this is the first time, we take it as a trial run for bigger holidays to know our parent's preferences as this is getting in-laws together! Things turn out to be pretty great as my mom and my FIL got along pretty well! Thank God also that my mom was feeling good and no dizziness of any sort (well it runs in our family! Mom, my auntie, my sister and I are haunted by it). Hence we can planned for bigger holidays after this!
It was a short getaway but it was really nice! We flew from Senai while our parents flew from KL. We arrived earlier to scout things out perfectly. We booked ourselves into Hyatt Kinabalu and it was perfectly beautiful and convenient. Just right at the center of food, shopping and sea!
Check out the beautiful view right from our hotel lounge! Nice weather too when we arrived.
Excited girl girl waiting for our suite to be ready! Wait! Wait! Waiting in the lounge with drinks and stuff! But we decided on juices as its still to early for alcohol!
Our suite living hall
One of the rooms!
We had our plans in hand and upon check-in we were ready to leave our stuff and went for a little date first prior our parents arrival! I was a little hungry but not very as we just chomped down KFC upon arrival at the Sabah airport! Ha! Ha! That has become our ritual as well, to eat KFC or McD before departure or upon arrival! So yeah!
Highlight of the first day would be the dinner! Yum! Yum! As my family and close friends would know, I am not one that would go eating at places with no proper shops or just a makeshift tents but I will give this one a pass! The seafood is just too tempting that it made me come down from my high horse for this moment! ;)
Yeap! It is just this fresh! We ordered right off the "pasar"
Sit down and wait for our food to arrive! Ta-dah! We had a lot and was full!
Looking at this picture makes my mouth water! I missed the Tom-Yam fish! It was so so nice!
We had Tom Yam Fish (Hubster & my favorite), Steam Fish, Ginger Lala, Spicy Shellfish, Butter Cream Lobster and Crab! We were all very full after dinner and decided to go for a walk around town even though we are very tired and tomorrow scheduled is just way pack! All arranged by CareBears Tours!
Cheeky boys are up to naughtiness at the room bar & we caught them when we arrived back to our hotel!
Day 2
Woke up early in-spite going to sleep late yesterday night. After breakfast we are ready to rock-n-roll! Ha! Ha!
Collected our ride for the day! We rented a Vios from a nearby Rent-A-Car.
Price for it is MYR280 per day if I am not mistaken!
It is cheaper to rent a car then to hire a driver since we are all Malaysian with Malaysian driving license!
Yeap! The car was alright! I am not here to review it but out of 5 stars I will only give it a 2 maybe! I am being very generous here! I believe Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear will be much cruel when it comes to reviewing it! Yeah of late me and hubby are running a marathon of watching Top Gear! Ha! Ha! Ok that is another story all together! But i learned so much from just watching it! Ha! Ha! Quite informative for such a entertaining show!
Here we go! Princeton is excited as well!
We went to a few places :
Marine Park! This turtle likes to take pictures!
It basically kept swimming into your camera focus to get himself a pic!
And that makes us very happy of course!
See what I told you! The turtle basically just holding hands with my mom!
My mom's expression was just priceless! Ha! Ha!
Next up! Kinabalu Park! This is really worth the while!
We are not doing any mountain climbing so this is the best spot for photo!
Finally got a kind soul to take picture for us!
This is priceless! We love this picture the most!
After spending hours on Mt Kinabalu, we went to Rumah Terbalik!
This is one of those tourist trap! It was fun seeing it though!
One time must go! That's all I can say!
What I told you?! Toilet also terbalik! How to pee pee?!
Hey no peeping and no pictures darling! Ha! Ha!
The great part about going on holiday with mom?!
Well she bought me a minion cupcake!
He! He! Still manja with mommy!
It was a wet wet day but thank God it came at the end of our visit, so off we went to enjoy our hotel facilities!
Our trip was an enjoyable one and we had great time together as a family! ;)
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