As I was rummaging my hubby's office bag for his notebook, he said to me, "Come, lets change and wake our girl up. Lets go to Klang". I happily quickened my steps to the drawer, took out a pair of jeans and a shirt for our precious and visualised myself in my new weekend dress. And before I could turn around, my girl cried, "Mummy! daddy is taking us to see fireflies!". I thought hubby was only kidding us and futhermore, we weren't sure if that place still existed. We did a quick google search on the internet and found a place called the Firefly Park Resort, Kuala Selangor. Hubby copied down the map and we wasted no time, get changed and dashed out of our home without further ado (btw, my new dress has to wait till the next weekend ;-)..)
Our girl was so excited and chatted cheerfully in the car and just couldn't wait to be there. The journey took us almost 2 hours. We weren't sure of the exact location and had to keep looking out for signs. The sky was getting dark and the streets leading to Kuala Selangor were not properly lit and narrow. I was beginning to worry that we'd missed the resort and ended up going home instead as they shut at 10:00pm. Even the signages leading to the resort were quite confusing enough. I was doubtful that we could reached there on time but hubby never gave up *I admire his patience*. He kept going and searching in the unfamiliar territory. As we were almost giving up, we saw the arrow sign leading to the park!!! Phew, what a relief.! Otherwise, it would be a huge disappointment.
It was almost 9:00pm by the time we got down from our car and thank goodness there weren't many people left. I supposed visitors mostly had gone home. I made my way to the ticket counter, bought our tickets and managed to snap a few photos before we hit the jetty. We helped ourselves with the life-jackets and hopped onto the awaiting boat and getting all ready for the boat cruise, which lasted less than 25 minutes.
Though it was just a brief river cruise, I knew our girl was truly fascinated by the sight of the lighting bugs. To her, those mangrove trees were like Christmas trees being illuminated by hundreds of twinkling fireflies instead of christmas lights. Prior to this, I doubt she could fathom what these nocturnal bugs would look like during the night . It was certainly a learning experience for her :-))
Finally, it was time to go home. To make it a more memorable trip for our little one, we pulled over at KFC (her fav, of course). Besides food, I signed her up as a chicky member. She was thrilled to get a watch plus other premium items. It really made her day. And guess what? She must be overly exhausted by the long car ride that she fell asleep twenty minutes into our way home. In a way, it was good for hubby and I. We managed to have some quality time chatting without her interruptions for a good one and a-half hours on our journey home.. :-))
