YahLan's: trip

Friday, February 06, 2009

Long wait.....

Bismillahirrahmanirraheem
Alhamdulillah , we finally arrived in Adelaide around 10 pm , Dec 15th. K Long & Afan were at the airport with 2 cars - the luggage wouldn't fit into one!

Spent the days preparing for the baby's arrival. Plus other activities to occupy our time.

We took long walks around the block, to Coles & K-Mart, so the baby would come early!
No luck!!

20 Dec 2008
Wanted to go cherry picking, but it's end of season, so we went strawberry picking instead

2gether time, after this no more! hehe. There'll soon be 3,4,5... Enjoy!!

Our trip was with the post-grads & families

Mak buyung pun kutip - in the background..

" Ijah amek, yang besar bagi baba, yg kecik Ijah makan...."

Then off to Hahndorf for lunch.

This looks better than lunch!!

Malamnya - Joined the students' Qiam at Nadia's place. The next morning we had BBQ with a group of Melbourne students (all ladies)who arrived after subuh

Final dip in the pool with Filzah..... Brrrrr... the water's freezing!
harap2 beranak lah today!

After their Melbourne - Sydney - Melbourne - Adelaide trip, K Soh, Nani, Lina, Asiah & Loh arrived in Adelaide on the 22nd morning. Kak Soh & Abg Zainal arrived a bit later from Sydney. Meriah! meriah!! alhamdulillah!

Today was K Long's due date!! Horray!

Dec 22nd came, and went, and nothing happened! Izrul had warned K Long not to give birth on the 23rd, his big day!!

Perth - one step closer towards our cucu.. 15 Dec 08

Welcome to Australia! The Great OZ salute! Filzah's first swipe at the flies!!

Bismillahirrahmanirraheem
This was going to be a long journey, distance & time wise. And I should have been more prepared. But I wasn't.. There were just too much to do before leaving - had to ensure that everything's in order. We ended up buying the luggage & bouncer for the new baby the day before we flew. Chucking in the stuff before the taxi arrived, missed some important items - alhamdulillah, minta mok su bawakan.

Quite annoyed when we discovered our seats were quite far apart from each other, me & Filzah in row 37 while Lan in row 11. How could they do that when we were among the first to check in! I was not at all happy, that was until we discovered why .. :) The aircraft was quite empty, everyone almost got a row each! and that allowed everyone to stretch & had a good sleep! and that's what we did!, waking up only for subuh. Alhamdulillah.

Touched down at Perth airport at around 6 am.Transferred to domestic terminal & arranged for car rental. We checked in early to avoid lugging around all our bags and all. Alhamdulillah, we were allowed to check in at least 8 hours before departure. Most convenient!

Wanted to take the city tour bus but decided otherwise when Budiman called to meet up somewhere. Apparently Kak Long had called Asiah to inform of our transit in Perth.

sambil tunggu Budiman & Asiah, sempat bergambar

City line tram