Eid Al Adha

In Muscat, Eid Al Adha was celebrated a day later from the rest of the world. That would be on the 9th of December. A night before, we went to Hj. Zunaidi's place for the takbir raya. At the same time we celebrated three couples wedding anniversaries. It ended at the wee of the night at about 11 p.m. and the gathering was continued at my place the morning of eid itself.

As the menu, it was definitely a raya menu with sambal sotong, rendang ayam, masak lodeh, kuah satay, nasi himpit and the satay itself. It was joyous raya as I missed one before for the Eid ul Fitr. I found it very pleasing as I have everyone just like my own family gather round and having a good raya time. Plus I have my parents around. Later thst day we planned our trip for Sur.

Sur trip with the lots

On the 2nd of Eid Al Adha which it was 10th of December...and also my dad 74th birthday....and we decided to have a trip with the rest of the crew to Sur. At first, the plan was to met up at Sultan Centre parking area but due to unforeseen circumstances our family were delayed. So, we let the rest to go first and we'll be tailing them from behind which we were late for about half an hour.

Later we supposed to met up at the Bima Sink Hole which was situated at the Quriyat area but unfortunately for us, we did not have any GPS or map to guide us to the place, then we missed the spot where everybody were waiting for us to have their breakfast. Again, we let them to go first. We finally decided just to join them in Sur. Once we reached Sur, everybody was starving...It was all because of us..hehehe...sorry yeah .....

Later, we checked in to the hotel and by half an hour we went to the nearest beach for the photo session. Thought of going to the turtle beach but it was nearly Maghrib prayer so we then decided to go on the next day on the way back to Muscat. The boys had a real good time of beach soccer. Night time was the barbecue. Though it was a cold and chill plus windy night, however, we did had a splendid time chatting and sharing opinion and changing ideas.

The next day after breakfast, after checked out of the hotel, we went straight to the turtle beach. Lazing there for about an hour with another photo session and then we went for lunch at one of the beriani shop in Sur. Later I requested my hubby to go to the Bima Sink Hole as I didn't get to see it on the way to Sur. So we dropped by the area which by that time it was again nearly time for the Maghrib prayer. However, I was glad and satisfied because I got to go those places before I headed for the hospital...

SinterKlass in school

On the 2nd of December,PDO School had made a date with the sinterklass to come and give out paper note(gingerbiscuits) to the children as Christmas will be celebrated in December and they had to make it early as during Christmas is a school holiday. So the kids were supposed to gather at the parking compound and waited for the sinterklass aka santa clause for the dutch. This was the Dutch traditional ways to celebrate Christmas.

Farewell dinner

Earlier this month also we had a farewell dinner to bid good bye to 2 bachelors who had been staying in Muscat for quite sometime and also a family who had been here for a year already.....they were Nazri and Mior and also Kak Roza and the kids....We started off with a maghrib prayer and later a speech from the ambasador who were able to come that night-Datuk Zamri, and the makan2 session...as usual..the end part was with the karaoke.

Rasyad's swimming gala

On the 4th of this month, Rasyad aka ABANG went for his four-day swimming gala....except for he was allowed to be accompanied by a parent. So he swam for 1000m through and back with his father. On the last day, he managed to received a medal for his achievemnet...way to go abang..!