Homecoming : Outbound ports

Our first port of call for our Homecoming this year was the Clark Airport. Here's Mama and Kecil in line to check in.
Did you notice Kecil's bag? Yup, that's the bag in which she kept her stash of candies from the Skool's Halloween party, indeed. In addition, we also put a copy of our complete itinerary there, just in case. It proved to be pretty useful too, since her bag was so much more accessible than Mama or Daddy's bag. Haha!

You see what I mean? A bag on a short kid in front of you is more accessible than a bag strapped tight to your back, no?

Once our bags are in (and the passengers checked in), it was time for a bit of breakfast. We couldn't find a nice comfortable seat (in our opinion) for the three of us to make a ruckus in sit on, so we settled on the floor at one corner of the waiting area. I'd say that for such a big area, the waiting area had precious few seats available. Shame on them.

Soon enough, we got to the plane, and, after around 4 hours of flight, landed in slightly wet airport of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Good thing it was ONLY slightly wet, because, at that Low Cost Carrier Terminal (LCCT), you can get really wet when it pours.

You see, budget airlines simply do not use air bridges. Instead, we took the stairs down, and there was this short distance (uncovered) to the 'tunnel'.

Please note that I use the word 'tunnel' liberally, since the said structure is barely weather-tight, with all the doorways (no door) and holes on the sides. On the good side, you can take pictures such as this one from it:

Oh, and forgot to mention, they actually provided umbrellas should it rain really hard:

While this Mama applaud the thought that comes with the gesture, I think I'd rather pray for good weather on days when I have to fly there. Seriously.

And the of course there was that part when we had to cross the road to the main building (with pretty heavy traffic, consisting of mainly the ground crew vehicles). I guess it was kind of interesting.

Here's the inside waiting area, where we spent our few hours of transit. There wasn't really much inside, but at least there were a few eateries where you can buy local food. It was really quite crowded inside the terminal. We did not know it then, but we could have gone out (through immigration) of the terminal where we could get better and wider selection of food. Lesson learnt, do homework before your trip, learn everything you need to know about your port of calls.

Still, finally it was time to leave, and off we went through the same 'tunnel' a few hours later to take our plane 'home'.

That's it for today. We'll see you again in the next post. This Mama can't wait! Cheers!