the long raya break (well not so long for me)

once again, eid mubarak / selamat hari raya to all my muslim friends.

thank God for long weekends. i was so looking forward to this year's raya break. although i didnt really take any extra days off so i had saturday through tuesday off.

we spent the weekend here in kl as we had a birthday function to attend but we wanted to take etha*n to the beach and so we drove down to seremban on sunday evening & spent the night in an uncle's home. my gmil, mil, niece, nephew and their maid came along as well. we all got up early on monday morning and drove to a nice private, quiet & clean beach in PD. we brought our tikar & snacks & plastic pails for the kids to play.

etha*n was a bit afraid of the water & waves. probably because it was a bit mendung that day & the water was chilly. luckily i had enough sense to dress him in those diver-type suits instead of just swimming trunks so he wasnt too exposed to the chilliness. luckily also my mil had brought along swimming diapers for the toddlers. i kinda forgot about that. actually, even if i had remembered, i dont know where to get them. where do you get them? they look like pull-up pants but they dont seem to soak water the way normal diapers do. mental note to self: find swimming diapers.

ok so, he was a bit takut of the water & waves, but eventually warmed up enough to enjoy it. got into the sea with his father & waited for the waves to come crashing at them. farnee. after a while, i took him to the beach to play with the sand & the plastic thingies. he seemed to enjoy both the sea & the sand.

my niece whos also my godchild is only 6 months older to etha*n, and i had a good time irritating her. she doesnt like the sand & so i kept rubbing the stuff all over her. of course in the end, i was on the losing end cos i had to take her into the sea to wash it all off again. but it was funny.

unfortunately, they were only able to play for about an hour before the black clouds came threatening to rain. lo & behold, just as i told everyone to finish up & get dressed it started to drizzle. luckily by then etha*n was already dressed & had a hat on & was sitting under a tree with his jijima (great-grandma).

so that was our beach escapade. short. but we came back to kl & took him swimming in the pool again the next day. so he got to spend some more time swimming again.

& now we're all back at work. but everyone else in the country is probably still on leave cos the roads are so clear. thank God. & though i'm in the office, i can still relax & do my own things since none of the bosses are here. yeehaww!

methinks a shopping session is up this afternoon :-p.