Longing For a Family Trip

Hi guys! It's been crazy two months of school. I'm very fed up with the school's hectic schedule and now I'm currently missing my holiday trips.

Talking about holiday, it's kinda been a while since my last family trip. I mean, for the past few years, I more often went on a vacation with my friends. It's not like I'm not having fun getting to go on trips with my friends, but I miss those time of going to places with my family.

And actually it's a good thing travelling with my family because my parents got to pay for everything. When I'm not travelling with them, I need to be very sparing about my spending. It sucks to think about money when you want to have fun time travelling.

Recently, I only go to near places with my family. Like to Sukabumi or Bandung or Jogja. It's not that I don't enjoy those trips. But my brother who just got his puberty could be very annoying sometimes. I don't think a trip like that is enough to interest him and make him excited.

I want to go somewhere a bit far from home, like to Bali, or to Flores, or even going abroad. I know it's not cheap to go to far places like those, but I think we can manage if we put the budget of our individual travelling into a one family vacation budget.

We really had a lot of individual travelling lately. My mom and dad like to go to running events outside Jakarta, I like to go trekking with my friends, my brother like to go to Jogja to meet a cousin of his age. I bet all of those are amazing trips, but I just really miss our time together in a holiday.

The last far trips I had with my family is our Hong Kong trips. It's like... 4 years ago? It was such a looooooooooooong time ago. But we experience a hell lot of new things there and we came home with such a story! I was really happy going to Disneyland for it was a heaven on earth for me. Even if it was rainy, but I still had the time of my life.

Hong Kong was a bit tricky because of the language they speak there. We had lots of trouble with the communication, but it was another good experience for us. Hong Kong was also very modern. It was really satisfying to see many modern architectures and to try their city technology.

We also went to Macau and Shenzhen and had like the biggest story ever, when our family got split up and lost in a very strange chinese speaking city. But I had fun there. The food in Shenzhen were very cheap and you know how I love quality cheap things.

Another trip with my family is our Singapore trip. It was a summer before the Hong Kong trip. I think it's a shame that I have went to SG twice, but only one time have I went there with my family. I should have gone abroad with my family often!

My Singapore trip with my family was a total new experience for me. It was the first time I went abroad, so I learned a lot about using the passport and all. I was also very fascinated with the technology such as their MRT, and how things there were very modern and very well developed compared to Indonesia.

The time we had at Universal Studios was also very thrilling and exciting because it was like Dufan in a WHOLE NEW LEVEL. Getting to ride the roller coasters and all the attraction there.... I was having a great time in my life as a child, and oh HOW I LOVE THEME PARKS!!!

Before Singapore, we travelled a lot around Indonesia. We had trips to Bali, to Manado, to Tegal, Jogja, and many other places.

I really-really miss the good time we had in our vacations. I think that in every trips we had together, we learned a lot of new stuffs and we got to experience things we can treasure as a family. And so it will last as a good memory. Hope I can go to another real family vacation in the near time.