Almost didn't made it.....

Yeapp...almost NOT made it for last check-in to KK at 6.20pm! Bus only left KL Sentral at 5.20pm. SMS & called Jija several times trying to get Jija who was already at LCCT to check us all in. Jija's 1st trial of checking all of us in was not fruitful as they wanted US to be there with our ICs!!! Just as it was fated for us to go, Abg Ajiz who happened to be hanging around wt his dear sister bumped into an old friend who was a senior officer of Airasia. So he managed to check us all in thru the backdoor but our luggages was still not there. Merely 5 mins before the counter closed, we arrived LCCT & Jija was there in front of the bus helping us to retrieve our luggages to be scanned & brought to the counter manned by a sour-faced mamat. TQ abg Ajiz & Jija........else i wouldn't know how to explain to the overly excited children why we couldn't go.

Nway, although we checked ourselves in on-time but the filght was not on time!! It was delayed again to 8.25pm.

Taxi to the Promenade apt was easy & took a short while. Again we were startled by the creepy looking corridor leading us to our rooms 2512 & 2513 of Block 5, Api-Api Centre. But inside it was a very soothing & welcoming ambience. So dinner was just mamak's fried rice of RM6 a packet. Since the children slept in d plane so everybody was still awake at 1am. Darling Jija came in my room with a cute little gift confidently wishing me Eppy Bday!!! I could only smile as she didn't believe it wasn't d day yet...uhhuu....

The flight delay had utterly changed our initial iteanary of going to the wet market the nite before. In fact we didn't even made it for our 9.20am pick-up to visit the Mari Mari Cultural Village. Luckily tho, they allowed us to defer the time to 2.20pm. So after breakfast, to the wet market we went. Children were astonished by the big fishes being sold with many many sizes of prawns & squids including giant-sized cockles. We stopped by the Philipino market for some souveniers for the children, to the frozen seafood mart & stalls selling dried seafoods. Then we took the taxi back to the apt & our cooking & lunch rendevous started till just in time to prepare ourselves for the pick-up.

The Mari-Mari Cultural Village, not commonly known by the locals proved to be very entertaining & knowledgable. We savoured the soul of Sabah as we entered the different homes of the etcnicities of Sabah. What's more with the TV3 troop making their coverage and Aidid Marcello as the host, we made ourselves famous for 3 hours. By the time we had our hi-tea, everybody was tired & looking forward to going back to the apt. In the van, ard 7pm, everyone vowed that we can't put in any dinner for that day!!!

However, at 9pm, adik called from next door asking for dinner...........so everyone sat eating whtever food that was left behind earlier. Jija was busy surfing the cyberspace & she got adik to bring her a platter of seafood....

Our last day was spent packing up & a short walk outside to catch a glimpse of the waterfront which wasn't a good idea.................uwwwaaa.......