Ultra Cool Mama

Our flight departs at 9.25am from LCCT terminal. Which means we’ll have to be at the airport at about 8am…which means we’ll have to leave the house at 7am. So we’ll have to wake Aiden up at about 6.15am! Luckily it wasn’t too difficult as he was really excited about the trip. Caitlyn was changed into her travelling garb and went straight back to sleep. After loading up our trusty Honda City we were on our way to our adventure….No looking back now.There wasn’t too many people at the airport *phew* We only found out that we had to get some kind of permit for Caitlyn as she doesn’t travel on a ticket but we have to register her or something like that.

We paid for our Express Boarding (YESS!! You read it right, PAID. AirAsia crew, even Captain do not get priority boarding) And even then we still have to make a dash for it.It’s not easy when you have 2 kids and baby bags.The flight was ok. It’s not their first time but both of them was still very excited,especially Aiden. Mommy and Daddy was thinking and hoping that he will eventually nod off during flight so that we can catch some shut eye as well but he didn’t sleep a wink at all.. Daddy let him watch Cars on the PSP but he soon got bored of that too. When we were about to land in Macau he was ready to knock out. But all the activity getting down the plane and going through Immigration kept him awake. He was really at his best behavior…Just as well,because his Daddy told him that we (mommy and daddy) will be giving a report to Mickey Mouse to say if he has been a good boy so that he will be allowed into Disneyland. Ah Yee suddenly became the good behavior angel to tell on him.

Ah Yee’s apartment is very close to the airport,and it’s very cosy with a lovely view of the sea and planes coming in to land. Their ‘apartment’ is 2 stories with a master bedroom (walk-in closet and bathroom attached),2 guestrooms (both with it’s own bathrooms,a study/computer room,rooftop garden, kitchen with an island console,living room and dining room,laundry area,oh, and a 2nd living room upstairs as well. So I wouldn’t call it an apartment actually.The weather was lovely as well…about 19 degrees. Not cold, feels like you are in an air-cond room.It’s perfect weather for sleeping…and that’s what Caitlyn did all the time.On the first night we had dinner at a restaurant named Nga Tim. It’s Ah Yee and Uncle Jim’s family restaurant in the village near their apartment. We had this special dish aptly named sauna prawns. How it’s ‘cooked’ (if you consider it cooking at all), the prawns came in a Pyrex bowl, then rice wine is pored into the Pyrex and it’s left for about 5 mins. Then the cooking bit comes in.. the prawns are then poured into a dish filled with hot stones, cover it for about half a minute then voila…it’s served. The way to eat it is just peel the shell and dipped in a little special soy sauce with some chili in it. It’s bit cruel actually but I must say it’s really yummy. Aiden love,love,loves it…I’ve never seen him eat so many prawns in one sitting. A mat salleh woman who sat a table away looked at us with disapproving eyes…I wonder where does her meat and the fish she was eating come from..maybe they all grow on trees or chemically generated from a lab some where and there’s no killing involve. Anyway the rest of the dishes were yum-yum as well.After that we went and paid homage to the great Venetian Casino. It’s really grand and at the moment it’s just quarter of it’s intended size. There’s lots of shops inside, everything or rather every brand you can think of it’s there. It’s just pure opulence everywhere you look. After that we all went home to retire..just as well coz I was about to drop dead! What a day!