Untuk birthday tahun ini, rasanya nak buat kelainan sikit. Give myself a birthday treat. My only wish was to have a holiday trip with my parents. Yes, only me and my parents yang membesarkan aku ni selama ini. Meaning no wife and kids.
Sebelum-sebelum ini pernah je gi holiday dengan my parents but setelah kawin, semua trip mesti dengan anak-anak dan wife. Memang sesungguhnya lebih seronok. Tapi ada banyak masanya, tidak semua kemahuan dapat dituruti especially bab itinerari. Disebabkan age gap sangat jauh, minat masing-masing jauh berbeza. Orang tua tak kisah pun kalau ikutkan minat anak2. Anak2 pun x de la berkehendakkan sangat, bukan tahu apa pun. Tapi as a planner, merancang sebegini tak berapa menyeronokkan.
Oleh itu, aku pun beri cadangan ni firstly to my wife. Tak abis ayat dia dah setuju. Dia kata by all means... Please... Do it. And gi ahead. Gi la mana-mana pun.
Then aku try approach adik beradik if anyone want to tag along. So long as tak bawak your own family. My elder bro can't commit. While my younger bro says ok at first. Cumanya later dia pujuk nak bawak anak bini jugak. Which i finally i said ok.
My parents x berapa minat at first. Sebab dia suka je jalan dengan cucu. But i said to then that this trip is for them. I would like to serve them. Asyik dengar diaorg enjoy travel dengan kawan2 je. Now it is time to have itinerary yg suits them better. Dan ikut kederat dan kemahuan mereka. Although they are at their 70s, kederat masih ada dan masih selalu je ber holiday dan bawa kawan2 diaorg gi holiday. And finally they agreed.
So where is the destination... Some place new. Not too big to cover. Since my parents i would say have covered at least 1/3 of the world. Europe is no longer interesting for them except for Switzerland but aku baru je pergi. Africa diaorg tak minat. Asia... Hmm... Takde menarik sebab jepun diaorg lagi expert.
So ntah macam mana tetiba keluar nama Moscow. Actually thanks to my wife, dia yang beriya nak ke situ. But after did some reading, tempat tu mcm kurang menarik untuk anak2. So aku rasa sgt sesuai bawak my parents... And they agreed instantly.
And secara kebetulan. Boleh pulak keluar tiket murah via Thai Airways to Moscow. RM1600 per pax. Timing cantik. Aku nak book. Dpt jumpa tix pukul 9 lebih, bila ready to book pukul 2, semua tiket habis... Untuk harga murah tu lah. Parents a bit kecewa.
Later, after a couple of weeks jumpa pula tix via vietnam airlines. Timing x berapa best and harga slightly mahal. My parents mula nya taknak pergi sebab ralat dengan harga murah sebelum. Lagi satu diaorg memikirkan kos nak dapatkan visa, dia dah cek dengan kawan agensi, RM700. Itupun agensi di KL je. tapi akhirnya setuju sebab diaorg x akan ke Moscow sesama kawan. Ini lah peluang nya... (we shall discuss pasal visa in the next entry).
So beberapa hari sudah... Kami dah pun beli tiket ke Moscow. We'll be travelling in September insyaAllah. Now the time to plan. Ada 3 bulan saja lagi untuk plan... Here go... The fun part.
