beach holiday

Went to an island beach resort north of where I am, for a holiday with thewife and theson, a few weeks back.. We took a slow drive 2hour up north to the pier to catch the ferry ride to the island.

We actually even had time to visit thewife’s old university. It was a sort of a pilgrimage for her. She kept having dreams of missing class and not getting enough credit to graduate. We visited her old dorm and cafeteria and walked around for a bit. There was even a deer park and a golf course in the darn uni..!!!!
Throughout the drive up north, thewife was reminiscing abt her time spend during her uni days. About where she used to go eat, how she used to ride her bike from her house to the uni, abt how the bad the bus service is. it was interesting to hear about her uni stories while i drove.. kept me from falling asleep.

We stopped for lunch in one of the small towns and had noodles. Theson was enjoying the ride and the trip and was in the car seat 80% of the time. Very proud of him.
We parked the car near the pier and bought the ferry tickets. It was a 45minute boatride to the island from the jetty on the mainland. Not too bumpy a ride and theson seemed to enjoy the ride. No one threw up :-P. The ferry was pretty packed but we had a row of seats to ourselves.
Once on the island, we spied a KFC (hallelujah…!!!) and we got theson his next meal of whipped potato. We then rented a car and drove to the hotel. By the time we reach the hotel and in our room, it was close to 330pm already. Darn tired..!!

Well, the Hotel room could have been better. No kingsize, no queensize, just 2 singles side by side..:-P It was better than nothing.. the view overlooked a small “pond” and definitely nothing spectacular. The hotel had a nice beach but too bad we only spent like 20min playing with the sand. Theson was actually scared of the waves and sand. City-kids…!!!!

Breakfast at the hotel for the 2 days was the usual American buffet …Beans, sausages, scrambled eggs, juice, muffins, No pancakes though..
Food on the island was in general so-so only.
We mostly ate at Chinese restaurants’ where theson could eat rice or noodles. We got ripped off at a Chinese restaurant near our hotel for dinner, cost us 80bucks++ but for the same meal at a restaurant near the jetty, it cost us only 38bucks. Saw a few italian restaurant but didnt have time to try them out.. :-(

oh yea, it was my birthday as well on the 2nd day.. happy birthday to me...!!!!

Cable car experience was quite exhilarating and well worth the 30min drive from our hotel. Thanks to thewife for sacrificing her fear of heights to accompany theson and me up the mountain on the skycar. Actually, to be honest, ¾ of the way up, I was ready to freak out as well.

Underwater world was only so-so. Sadly, nothing much to shout about.

We bought loads of smokes (for other people), alcohol and chocolates. Clothing was actually quite expensive as well. Didn’t buy much. We did however buy theson a new pair of adidas shoes. I finally had to relent after months of trying to veto it. It was thewife’s call on this one.

Regrets: Should’ve brought more bags to buy more stuff but then again, I would have had to carry them all anyway :-P

The last day there was pretty hectic, we went to the underwater world, went back to the cable car place to buy a shirt, went shopping again for all the duty free stuff, go back to hotel to pack, check-out, return the car and be at the ferry terminal, all in exactly 5hours..pheeew...
The son threw up in the car on the drive back though. He slept on the ferry, so that could have been it.
We stopped by at thewife’s mum’s place for dinner. Reached home at 10pm++ and dead tired. Thank god I was not working the next day.

Overall, it was a tiring trip but enjoyable. (7/10)