Langkawi Holiday 2009- Day 1

2009, May 28, Thursday

Our second holiday, for the year 2009, is to Langkawi, Malaysia. My hubby came home from another job and started planning for a holiday, already. This time, he wanted to get away for a little longer and a little different. He had Langkawi in mind and made all the necessary arrangements. We were going to leave for Langkawi on the 22nd May and be home on the 26th May 2009.

This was going to be the first time the boys were going to be travelling by plane. Immanuel had actually taken a flight before, when he was 1 year old. But unfortunately, he remembers nothing about that. We were worried very much about Ivan. We have been cautioned about how autistic kids react to the taking off and landing of the plane. I traveled by other means all this while because of this "fear". However, we decided that we had to face our fears. I prepared him, by talking to him about the trip. How we would take the taxi to the airport, after which we would take the plane all the way to Langkawi.

So after all the packing and cleaning that only mummy can seen to do. We all left for the airport. We left for the airport earlier, so that we could have tea at the airport and walk around the duty free shops (my favourite pastime).

After walking around, particularly in and out of all the shops there, we lingered until it was time to board the plane. I needed to pick up a new bottle of perfume, as I didn't pack any. I was looking for my very nice bottle of Dior Addict, but was disappointed, when I couldn't get it. Apparently they no longer carry Dior Addict. Now they only carry Dior Addict 2. I was not happy, as its not the same scent.
So I went sniffing around for another scent. After much sniffing, I bought myself "Daisy" from Marc Jacobs. Hmmmmm, berry berry nice.... While I was sniffing at the Duty Free Store, the boys occupied themselves outside, doing tree trunk rubbings. I thought that it was a brilliant idea. With wives and mummies, taking time to decide on their purchase, the husbands and the rest of the family needed something to keep them occupied.

Ivan was rather fascinated with this pot with water coming out of it. He stood there for a while mesmerized with the flow of water. Immanuel on the other hand was more interested in the orchids that were there.


The boys were beginning to get restless, so after I bought my perfume. We headed for the entrance. Here you see two excited boys viewing the plane that they are about to get on.

So, now we are in and awaiting to board the plane, while mummy and daddy fill out the immigration forms, the boys whip out their PSPs and start playing. The boys are so hooked up with their PSPs, personally, I am not in favour of this. But the kids nowadays just seem to prefer interacting with machines than people.


Okay, now it's time to get onto the plane. And we are on our way to Langkawi, Malaysia. You will see that the boys are busy looking all around even before we get there.

Now, we are in the plane.... And the boys don't look that impressed yah. They both look around and sit tight as the plane should take off soon. Ivan looks around, doesn't say much. After a while, he resumes his "Ah Pek" position to prepare himself for a comfortable flight.

Now the plane is taking off, okay, it feels a little funny.. I guess its nice... my ears feel weird...

We had a good flight. All was well, Ivan was occupied by the toys that he brought along. We managed to get two window seats, one for each boy. Occasionally, Ivan would look out of the window, but he didn't seem very impressed with his window seat though. As we were about to land, I got Ivan to look out into the wonderful lights in the night. The entrance of the airport, seemed like we were landing in someone's backyard. This was going to be a very private island. Well, we have kick-started the holiday. But for tonight it wouldn't be much, just settling down into the hotel room.

We checked in, and ordered room service as we were starving. I unpacked and we sat to have dinner in our room, while daddy decided what we were going to do tomorrow.

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