FAMILY TRIP TO BANDUNG

This was initially my wife, my youngest son and another daughter-in law's company trip, make possible by their company's sport club.  Since most of the family members were going, my eldest son suggested the rest of us join in as well to make it a family trip. Of course  family member have to chip in their own. This is the first time we had our family retreat as a whole family. Initially I did not want to go as I still had the fear of flying, but at the insistence of my eldest son, I relented.  Bandung  is indeed a shopping paradise as there were numerous factory outlet and prices were cheap compare to malaysia.

I only got a pair of jean and two shirts and the rest of the stuff were for my grand daughter. My wife too bought clothings for our granddaughter,who will have enough clothings for the next couple of months as her parent too bought some as well. It was a very tight schedule trip, since it was through a tour company and everything was arranged as per their schedule and we had to meet their time table, but of course where there are shopping involved you can expect some people who can't keep track of the time and we end up waiting for them as least for the first two days. However on the last day, they were on time only because they had ran out of money!  My wife and daughter in law is already thinking for making another trip next year. This time they intend to travel without the big group and without a scheduled time table. Here are some of the shots  of our so called family trip. It would had been a perfect family trip had it not been for a little inconvenience. One of my wife's collegue who had this phobia of sleeping alone and my wife was so concern and took pity on her. She told me she might cry in the middle of the night and so she had to accompany her and I end up sleeping alone.  Being a good husband that I am(ahem) I gave in to her request , even though I don't like to sleep alone just as  Paul Anka 's song says.
My observation during the trip.  Lots of hard core poverty everywhere. A nice get away, and indeed a shopping paradise if you don't mind the hustling from the peddlers who seems to follow you everywhere.

One of the extinct volcano

IndonesianYong tau hu, 

All in the family

with my Darling wife

The rice is rolled in banana leaf to give it a nice fragrant.

this is where we had our lunch

One of the many factory outlet at Bandung