Hotels!

So, as you know, we went for the 17th Aug celebration last month (eek! last month!). The celebration was held pretty early in the morning, like around 9.30am? It was kind of funny how people started asking what time we started for Manila just to make it there so early. Well.... good for us, we didn't start early in the morning, we started the day before!
(Daddy had a meeting on Friday, so we stayed 1 night only to go back on Saturday, after the ceremony and catching up with some old friends).
The trip seemed to be a confluence of a few incidence of good timing. We mentioned about the Indonesian Independence celebration, then it also happened that Mama had a few old colleague in town, with whom we ended up having lunch:

We also took them around the hotel, just for fun. We hotelier love to do that, you know.
After they left, we simply spent the rest of the day enjoying the hotel facilities, including, of course, the swimming pool:

It struck Mama there and then, actually, that Kecil seemed very much at home in the hotel environment. She actually knew that a hotel would have a swimming pool. Back in the room? She was systematically checking all the hotel facilities: the toilets, the bath tub, the cabinets, the stationaries, the TV (oh yes, definitely the TV!)....
I guess she HAS been exposed to hotels all right. Take a look at those below:

From her baby days in Singapore, Kecil got to stay in various hotels, with Eyangs, with Tante. Why.... she even swam (and got showered in a wok) at a resort in Thailand, sans Mama & Daddy (who had to work then)!

Oh, and that crying baby? She did not like to shower in big bath tub. I guess that kind of explain why she took to the wok so well, eh?

Fast forward a year or two, the toddler Kecil still got more hotel trips to follow, in Singapore, Philippines, even in Indonesia.

As for the big kid Kecil... well... you know how it went on, right? Yogyakarta, Singapore, Manila, Bali.... whew... what kind of travel bug bit this kid?

Well... all in all, I guess I shouldn't be too surprised that Kecil would know her way around a hotel, any hotel. In any case, we sure had lots of fun, and while the accommodation certainly add a nice touch, I would say that the amount of fun had more to do with the company we kept. Family, friends.... I'd say their company was the one that make all the hotel stays so special.

We never know where our wandering feet might bring us, but one can certainly hope for more fun in store in our future. Here's for more wonderful moments with great company, wherever those moments would find us. Cheers!