('Do'..? That's not the right word..ahahaaha..ha.)
Well anyway, I know two Sundays ago we went to West Coast Park with the amazingly fun structures thingamies to climb.
Mama didn't come with us, so it was just Papa and the rest of us.
There were slides, and swings, and that parallel-to-the-ground flying fox things you sit on and you whoosh to the other side, and sand everywhere.
It was supposed to be raining (it's always supposed to be raining nowadays), but on that day, it didn't.
So we had free reign over the area.
Long story short, I climbed to the top of that 3-storey (damn how many times have I got to type 'storey'..honestly!) structure near 5 times and (surprise, surprise!) so did my 5-year old little bro.
He was a brave, brave soul.
I mean, even I was terrified the first time.
It was wonderful exercise, and at the end my face was flushed a perfect pink and I was sweating buckets and it felt so good.
And last Saturday was one of the best family outings ever.
Ever.
Ever.
How about arriving at East Coast beach at 6pm and going straight into the sea till dusk descended upon us and you can see the setting sun to your right with the gibbous moon high on the left, and you are with all your cousins, like all of them, and you are talking and laughing and splashing water and spilling wet sand onto one another, and your eyes seem to be one with the horizon that seemed so, so endless.
Holy shit it was fun.
After we took a shower it was a complete stuffing-oneself-silly session.
Then me, and Haiqal and Anis and Daiyana went walking at THE creepy secluded pathway.
It was..well, plain eerie.
At the entrance there was this most unusual, guttural, animal sound that was almost like a deep moo/quack.
Yes, where no animal was supposed to be there.
And you know the sound of ducks at night mean that 'she' is present...truth.
It was downright unnerving and I don't have a clue why we braved ourselves to venture any further..but ultimately we did.
We walked on and on, into the static stillness of the dark, and paths diverged and vines climbed and thickened.
It really was very dark, and we were so desperately making us talk of UNscary things (X-Factor) and laughing stupidly, nervously, and suddenly the lamp post right above us flickered straight off and the area about us went completely dark and how we ran and screamed and ran.
Okay, so it is not as scary when I say it like this but wait till it happens to you.
And that singular black cat that seemed to tail us wherever we go...
We played like little children that night.
God it was so fun.
There's this garden maze thing by Sunset Bay that is not really a maze but we call it one, where we would play catching and things like that.
And...I stepped on two newlywed snails.
Sigh.
It was a sickening *crunch*.
Ew.
Speaking of snails, Adani, Shireen and Arinah gathered 23 snails and put them together on a grass patch.
Ew.
There was some kind of...unrestrained..party..the snails were having.
And at the end of the night, yellow eggs was emerging from a pair of two stuck-together snails.
Yeah, they sure had fun.
It was fun.
A nice, casual, childish family get together and it was great.
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