Our Year-end Vacation

Thursday 18th December 2008

Hotel - checked
Flight - checked
Taxi to KLIA - checked
Cat Food - checked
Luggage all done - checked

Yep...ready to go.........

Friday 19th December 2008

530 am - Got up, showered and cleaned the house...ye la nak tinggalkan rumah for a few days...
600 am - Kejutkan semua....Hubby, Opi and Isya. As always...Isya jumped into the shower first since she will take ages to get ready anyway.
700 am - Taxi came

Mak ooi...bila sampai kat KLIA, panjangnyer line! Takpe...during school holidays memang camni so mengenangkan nak bercuti, so we queued up without much protests from the kids. I rasa pasai depa too excited kot.

830 am - Finally we got to the counter. All was a breeze until....

Counter lady : Can I see the children's birth certs?
Hubby : Erm...we don't have them..we normally never bring them around
Counter lady : Then Im very sorry cos it is the policy, we need to see the birth certs else we cannot let you in.
Hubby : We have been travelling but we've never brought the certs...why now??
Counter lady : tak tau la masa dulu2kan...maybe you all lucky but I cannot let you in...

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That was it....

We couldn't change the flight because all the flights were full for the next 4 days before Xmas. All the $$$ for nothing. All the anticipation for what again????

Isya controlled her tears...and that broke my heart. Maybe sometimes it is easier if she just wails out her frustration. Just don't look at me with those unshed tears...

Opi just couldn't speak. His face was all red with emotions. His hands were clenched.

Hubby tried his best to call the hotel to cancel the booking, but because it was too short a notice, they still charged him the hotel cost in full. Then he turned quiet...very quiet...too quiet...aiyayayayya..........


1 noon - I switched on my laptop and started a full-blown search of all the hotels, starting from Johor. Still berkobar-kobar. You need to be in my shoes to know the feelings....Isya sat very close to me, peeping at the screen...hoping for the vacation.

The suitcases were still unpacked...

The leftover excitement was still in the air...

High hopes between the kids...they played and laughed and occasionally looked at me, in case of any good news...

230 pm - Hubby came back from Friday prayers. For me...still no luck. I tried all the hotels. From the mid-class to 5-star hotels...from Johor to PD to Cameron to Penang. All fully booked!! Even the boutique resorts were fully booked. Damn...banyaknyer duit depa ni!!

630 pm - This self-appointed travel agent officially closed shop. The tear dam pun pecah. Isya started crying. Opi locked himself up in his room. I blur.....

730 pm - Our spending rampage began....

Tu la pasal.. the wallet hath no fury like a spoiled vacation plan.