May Gathering with the Aunties

After various discussions, we decided to meet yday, midweek and a PH. Then somebody suggested beach and what is a beach gathering without kids? If without kids, we would choose a nice aircon cafe over beach anytime. The teenagers had their own chat group and decided to all come for the beach gathering. 

Bcos ECP is fairly near, we decided to all cycle to ECP. 

Ya, it was my suggestion but I forgot that I had a 100km ride with the PPCG group the night before. I haven’t rode this long distance for a long time. In fact, my last roadie ride was in early April. The distance was manageable bcos the speed was controlled, what wasn’t is the butt ache. Lol. 

The moment I sat on my bike, my butt nicely reminded me of the consequences of a 100km ride. Lol. I made it safely to ECP. It was about 10km and took us 45 mins. We brought picnic mat, frisbee, vball and a huge thermal water bottle, all nicely strapped onto the foldie. 

We were the 1st to arrive at the park and had to wait for other families, so that there are food to snack on. Haha. Thankfully, the rest arrived shortly. ECP was crowded and we joined the crowd, found a grass patch near to the beach and grew our territory as more families came and brought more mats. 

While the teenagers were happy to sit around to either game or chit chat, the tiny ones were eager to hit the beach and water.

The only thing in my head was the clean up required of the tiny ones. Look at that amount of sand. Lol. Thankfully, my kids are way beyond this stage. At dinner, auntie J and I were happily taking care of our own dinner while some of the aunties were ruining after their little ones and cleaning them up. 

Speaking of dinner, the teenagers had MacD under the moonlight and torch light. The adults nicely sat in the Briyani shop, away from the mosquitoes and comfortably in the aircon restaurant. It is ok, young people like to do this kind of things, I did that too many years ago. 

We finally left for home at about 8.30pm. We all have work and school to go back to the next day. We had to take a picture of the teenagers. 

The ride home was just as traumatising for my butt. Nana was tired but still had to ride back. At one point, she decided to take the ride slowly, which my butt totally disagreed. Daddy Lim kindly stayed with Nana while Zaky and I sped home. My butt is saved! 

It was a nice gathering. We don’t always have such a big group of hubbies and kids. We all found different things to do, whether it is gaming, sand, coffee or catching up. May God bless and bond this group forever, big or small people alike. 

Mummy Lim