Tioman Here we come!

Hello!
it's a long weekend holiday for us here in Singapore. So we are going for a short getaway in Sunny Tioman with my colleagues. I'm bringing the boys this time round without baby Jade as I'm afraid the long ferry ride to Tioman will be difficult for her. Plus I didn't want my colleagues to become nannies for us.

ritey...we have just dropped my helper and baby Jade at my parents' place and we are now waiting for the taxi to bring us to the meeting point.

We were slightly late due to heavy traffic...nonetheless, we managed to hop onto our coach and now we are approaching Woodlands checkpoint. The traffic was terrible....thousands of people were also crossing the checkpoint. From 5pm all the way to 11pm, we were trapped en route to the checkpoint and only manage to reach Mersing Ferry Terminal about 230am.

Both Jules and James were very corporative during all the transfers. So I'm really glad that they were so "good". Both of them slept awhile on the coach and the 3 hour ferry ride to Tioman.

 above: hubs carrying James who is snoozing on the ferry ride.

About 4am...we reached Berjaya Resort and guess what was my immediate reaction - start pumping!!! It was almost 9 hours since my last pump!

The boys were so excited that they couldn't sleep so we let them watch a little telly and waited for them to fall asleep.

Tioman Day 1 - Good Friday

It's a Friday early morning. We are off to our breakfast area....for this trip, all of our meals are covered and it's buffet style. We are going to this holiday easy and going to laze at the pool and beach to while the time away.

we packed all their swimming gear, sand castle kits, sunblock, caps, crocs, swimming vests... so it's just going to be the SUN, SAND AND SEA!!!

 above: Jules and James looking at a dead toad

above: Ayura Spa...very popular. So if you are here, please do an early booking to avoid disappointment.

 Above: Changing the boys into their swim gear after our hearty breakfast.

above: Boys back from their swimming activity...will blog separately cos the photos are in a different camera.

 After swimming in both the pool and sea, it's time for lunch! The restaurant is having a promotion for wine and beer. So for every 2 cans of beer or glasses of wine (red or white) you get another can /glasss free!

 above: our cans of beer!

After lunch, we decided to check out the games rooms which was deserted. Guess everyone is at the pool. The games room was air-conditioned so it was a refreshing welcome when we entered the place after a warm lunch at the restaurant. Tioman at this time of the year is very very sunny and hot. I even bought the boys ice-creams to cool them down....

 evening, we brought the boys to the resort's playground to play.

Above: Sun setting and that was our first day in Tioman... now we are waiting for the divers to come back from sea so that we can all have dinner together.