I loved last weekend. We had planned this trip few months back. At first it was a bunch of us, then four, then at last just the three of us. Me, mummy and hubster. The night before, D took me to dinner at Alexis, where i had the yummiest cod fish. More than what i would usually pay for a meal, but D insisted since he was feeling generous and I had my appetite. :P It was also MIL's birthday, helped D to pick out a Liz Claiborne handbag for her and went over to wish her. She loved the bag. (Not sure about that though, she took one look at the tissue wrapper and said 'cantiknyyaaa!!'. Lol)
Woke up at 4.30 to begin our journey up north. Picked up Mummy. Almost at Cyber exit, D realized he forgot his insurance papers. U-turn.
Looooong journey. Hungry. Tired. Sakit pinggang. Made few stops at rest areas. The nightmare was the Thai immigration. Can't sit in the car and handover passports anymore apparently. Have to get down and queue. Horrible. Extreme dry heat, dusty and lorry fumes. Sigh. Got through that in about a hour, twenty ringgit bribe to the parking guy, two ringgit bribe each person to the immigration officers. Geez-wheez. Bribe bukannya menyenangkan pun. Sweaty, sticky and hungry we continued our journey and stopped by for lunch devouring the spread of tomyum, steamed fish, chicken wings and prawn. Hot hot food on a hot hot afternoon. Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Thailand. Good food has just started.
Managed to get the last room at Lee Gardens. I love Lee Gardens!! Three of us shared one room with an extra bed. Very spacious and cool. Shower and collapsed. Husband snoring on the left and Mummy snoring on the right. Evening, between Mummy's shopping spree, D's bowel movement we split and later while Mummy was reflexology-ing, i found D by the roadside munching on grilled prawns and chicken wings. Joined him and waited for nasi goreng lady to arrive (1 hour) and prepare my order of nasi goreng (another hour). Marah la jugak. Lapar kan. But ate one huge prawn that cost me 100 baht. I guess that lifted my mood a little. Sedap giler. Am i weird? I love sucking the juices of the prawn head. Yummeh. I saw a key-chain sold by the street vendor, with the letter G. wanted to get it for my sister but totally spaced out and forgot. Oh, i also love bird's nest. Ten bucks per small bowl. But totally delicious.
Second day started early. Waaay too early. Breakfast at the hotel, to market with mummy while D slept in. I love the markets here. The colors, the smell and people. So fabulous. Went around with mummy until we could hold no more items and went home, saw a note from D that he went off to the bike shop. We showered and watched Thai documentary while waiting for him. Crocodiles and frogs. And strange looking sea creatures. D came and we set off yet again for another round of Mummy's grocery shopping.
You see, actually the purpose of this trip is sorta like a yearly pilgrimage we make to buy our daily necessities. Especially Mummy, will stock up everything to last till the net trip which probably will be year end or next year. Everything means EVERYTHING. Like, you wouldn't believe it.
Weather over there was extremely unbearable. Extreme heat. Usually on our previous trips, we would stroll during midday, checking out the street vendors nearby but this time it was just waaaaay to warm to be out side. So after that we rested for a bit until D proposed the floating market he had just found out about. Following the map ( which got D annoyed with me as usual cos i can't read maps for shit, he said he'd rather bring Mummy on the Amazing Race) we managed to track down the illusive market. Boy, so glad we did. It was the best floating market i've ever been to. Everything was mostly food, sold by Muslims and cost you 20 baht. Well, one stall sold maggot, roaches, crickets, larvae and some other creepy crawlies which D ate and Mummy took pictures and posted on her FB.
We tried some gorgeous Thai dessert which tasted like your Es Teler, deep fried baby crabs, Otak-otak, drink D bought from a bamboo container - depending on how much you paid, you could take home a bamboo container, a clay pot shaped like a fish, monkey or whatnot. Interesting. D's drink had an umbrella and an orchid. He took the umbrella and put it behind his ear. I think he got confused with the orchid. Oh, well.
As usual, when it came to buying stuff Mummy will always overdo it. She requested for 10 pieces of uncooked otak-otak from the little lady on the sampan to take home and freeze. Mind you the otak-otak ain't the tiny ones you get here. It's about the size of a burger. Or maybe bigger.
Back at the hotel, Mummy called for a room massage and D went out for a massage. I was left alone and watched a bit of TV before meeting D for dinner of more prawns and beef noodles. Caught a bunch of Malaysian bitching about me in front of my face about how slow i was eating. Sigh. Siam kah wajah saya?
The next day went by super fast as with all last days of holidays. Sigh. Sedih jek Market in the morning, Hamid's superlicious lunch, D buying me two pairs of pants from the mall and Mummy yet again continuing with a bit of last minute shopping.
Drive home was horrible. The five/six hour journey turned into a twelve hour one, travelling at 20km/h for about a hundred km. Pengsan sakit pinggang.
All in all it was awesome. A holiday with two of my favorite people in the world.
Okay. back to work. -_-
