Happy New Year..........

Totally unbelievable that it's already 2011!

Dunno where 2010 went, as it seems to have just whizzed by :-p

Anyway, I had decided to take leave on Thursday and Friday to finish off the last two days of leave I have left in 2010, when the football team had to 'ruin' it all by leaving me one measly day balance to carry forward to 2011 :-p

Kudos and congrats to the team :-D :-D :-D

On Friday, hubby sent Ana to the train station for her to take the LRT to Kg Baru since I'd promised her the weekend off. She had friends to see, stuff to do I guess... being so young, I guess it's only normal.

I was thinking what to do the weekend since due to the last minute unexpected bonus holiday, I'm sure many would have abandoned their original plans and decide to do other things. In the end, I called up my favourite place up in the hills in Putrajaya and they still had room available!! Yaaayy!

So, I packed while waiting for hubby to come back from Friday prayers, then got Aina ready. Hubby made a side trip to the hardware store, so he came back a bit later than expected, but since we were all packed (I'd also packed his stuff) all he had to do was to tload the stuff in the car and go where we wanted to go.

We decided to make a stop first to tapau our dinner since we figured it'd be mad to go out on New Year's Eve, no matter where you are!!!

We checked in at the hotel almost 6.00pm, and Aina was all psyched about being in a 'nice' place which had a huge tub and a swimming pool, so three guesses where she headed first?? ~ LOL

Yup, the swimming pool. Since the pool at Putrajaya Shangri-La does not use chlorine, I was more than happy to allow Aina to play as much as she liked. But, the pool was a bit crowded, so Aina had a short dip then we went back to the room where she continued playing in the tub, where she had more fun playing with the bubbles :-D

On a side note, I noticed that the hotel had changed their toiletries, and the bath salts were missing :-( But, it was still nice anyway, and the most important thing was that Aina had fun.

We showered, then decided to go to the lobby lounge as they had their usual complimentary sunset cocktail for their in-house guests. FYI, the cocktail's from 6.00pm - 7.00pm daily. By the time we got there though, it was about quarter to seven. Aina was more interested looking down at the table setting @ Azur (the Mediterranean retaurant) and Palm Hill (the Coffeehouse) as they had placed hats and gift packs, and Aina kept saying "er-pise, Mama... er-pise" i.e. surprise :-)

Babah was not feeling so good as he had a sinus attack so while he went back to the room to rest, I took Aina around the hotel for a short inspection, ahahahhahaaa... I'd been there many times before so I knew my way around :-p

When we got back to the room, Babah was already re-heating the food we'd bought for dinner and so we sat down for a nice meal of Chicken Mandi and Lamb Madghout, from Al-Barakah @ Neo Cyberjaya :-)

(sorry, not many pics of food and the like as Babah was more intent on taking pics of Aina at the pool and playing in the bath tub!!! ~ lol)

Aina must have been really excited about our little getaway because she didn't nod off to sleep till after 11.00pm and woke up early in the morning, at 6.30am!!!

She went to the bathroom, saw the tub and 'volunteered' to take her bath, ahahahhaaa... We all showered and were off to breakfast by 7.00am!! :-D

After breakfast, Aina changed into her suit and we headed to the swimming pool again. This time, it was just us so it was obviously MUCH more fun, ehehehehee... Babah joined us, but only to take pics.

We actually wanted to check-out at noon or a little after but considering Aina woke up extremely early, and to top it all off, she was happily playing on the bed when she suddenly 'disappeared onto the floor', you can imagine that the fun was all over for her that time, LOL

And so we packed up and left around 11.30 and headed to Taman Warisan Pertanian for our lunch. We weren't in the mood for anything really heavy so we decided to go for Hj Samuri's satay.

After our early lunch, we headed home to rest.

Aina had already nodded off in the car, on the way home. And the journey was only 15 minutes!! LOL

Raihan called when we were on our way home and told us she was coming back that evening so all we had to do was to wait for her call to pick her up at the bus terminal. Unfortunately, when we got there that evening, she SMS'd to tell us that the driver had decided to go to Klang first, so we had about an hour to kill before she arrived! We had dinner at a nearby restaurant while we waited, and turned out the food there was yummy :-D

Anyway, that was our activity for the New Year, and we wish everyone a HAPPY NEW YEAR!