Parents are bringing me out!

Here is the Yeo's family all set for a fun-filled trip at Batam!!!

We got ready at 730am, pretty late considering that we were suppose to gather at Harbourfront Centre at 8am. But i was so READY and all set to go at 7am!!!! But Daddy had to cook the beef and feed the dogs first, showered, changed and then he was ready. haha, and he was quite embarassed that for the first time the whole family was waiting for him.

And we had breakfast at Mcdonalds, coffee from Wang Cafe, skipped Delifrance totally, got our boarding passes, immigration cards too and daddy's one had his name totally screwed up. The tour guide promised him that it will be ok, but he was "beep" at the customs, Q-ed pretty long to get thru the customs and woohoo! finally made our way to our Ferry!

here's mum and dad behind, all smiley for a photograph and we are so ready to go!

wj, mum and dad just outside the Sekupang Ferry Terminal. OKay people, after the half hour ferry ride, our tour guide advised us to take our peepee here cos it will be an hour and a half ride on the coach without stopover at any rest-rooms. And the toilets here are generally quite clean and new! Cos the rest of batam has no flushing system, and you have to use water to flush your pee manually!

"hee hee" smiles

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the big crack at my window seat on the coach.

First stop that day was the Barelang Fisabililah Bridge. It's quite a huge structure and seems to be the first bridge that was built on Batam during the reign of President Habibi. Consequent bridges were not so impressive or cost that much. This one took 4 years to finish! So much so that this "magnificent" bridge has become a tourist stopover in Batam.

According to the guide, the bridges were to link nearby islands to Batam, allowing room for future development and linkage. It was also a main connector to Batam as before, people who wanted to come to Batam had to travel via ferry. With the bridge, it has made transport much easier.

Besides this, our tour guide also made us guess...

if you took one day to visit an indonesian island. Guess how many years u need to take to finish all island in indonesia???

my guess was 10years. But i was wrong.

his answer was....47-48 years approximately.

Indonesia has that many islands.

ritey will post more photos on Batam soon!