Early Morning Faces

What we did exactly 10 days ago...

1) Woke up by 4am on a weekend morning (!!)
2) Showered, get ready, make oneself look decent by 6.10am. Yawn.
3) Made sure necessary things are packed. Hair dryer, flat iron, extra camera battery, cellphone charger, nasal spray, etc.
4) Made sure that all the switches are turned off, windows locked before leaving the house.
5) Dragged oneself down the stairs to the void deck and look out for the mini-bus that was supposed to fetch you at 6.20am but was 15-20 minutes late.
6) Grumble to your mum saying that you could get an extra 15 minutes sleep instead of waiting for the late mini-bus.
7) Mini-bus finally arrived with family #1. Family #2 and #3 boarded the bus.
8) Bus driver drove to another pick-up point to fetch family #4 but said family was late for 5 mins (!!). An aunt called for info.
9) Members of family #4 were seen running and crossing the road to get to the mini-bus.
10) 3 families said hi to family #4. Owner of this photo blog yawned. Definitely not an early morning person.
11) Bus driver drove to bus "terminal" of the travel company.
12) Waited for over an hour for the allocated coach bus to arrive at the "terminal".
13) Did something useful like buy hot tea with condensed milk or yawn or talk with your cousins or snap candid shots of peoples' faces.
14) Spotted designated coach bus 100 metres away and said out in a loud voice "OI! Bus is here already!" and proceeded to pull/drag/carry individual bag to the designated bus for loading.
15) Boarded the said bus, leaving the fathers, the astonished bus driver and his assistant to load all *50 small luggages, 2 strollers and 1 wheelchair and a patridge in a pear tree, in the cargo compartment.
16) Scrambled up to the upper deck to choose your seat. Or in this case, we just said... "OI! That's my seat!"
17) Fiddled with the gadgets and gizmos of the plush seats while your aunt tried to do a head count by saying... "OI! Faster sit down, must do head count!"... and looked out the window to see another aunt supervising the men loading the *50 small luggages, 2 strollers and 1 wheelchair and a patridge in a pear tree, in the cargo compartment.
18) Listened to the bus stewardess giving some kind of announcement but then ignoring the said bus stewardess after finding out the plush seats are equipped with massage functions.
19) Test out the massage functions and say, "Oooh. Aahhh. Nice lah!"
20) All human and cargo were finally boarded and loaded on the bus...

Then and ONLY then, could the bus driver wiped off the sweat from his brow, heaved a sigh of relief, started his engine, checked the rear view mirror plus side view mirror and blind spots, signalled and moved off.

Heheh.

Ain't family getaway grand? :)



*There wasn't actually 50 small luggages, 2 strollers and 1 wheelchair and a patridge in a pear tree. Only 25 small luggages, 2 strollers and 1 wheelchair.

*Plus 2 HUGE luggages which belonged to my elder cousin and her husband who kidnapped 2 billy goats from a farm, stuffed them inside the said HUGE luggages and brought them back home.