The Promil Kids Hit Hong Kong!

My mother doesn’t travel. The farthest my mother had reached was Lucena City in Quezon. She had never boarded a plane or a ship. We used to be extremely poor. We literally experienced “magdildil ng asin.” I remember eating just rice and cooking oil with a little bit of soy sauce for our full meal.

But because my mother worked hard, our lives began becoming more comfortable. She supported us until my siblings and I finished college. And now that my life had been so good, I promised my mother that I would take her on a trip out of the country every year. Starting with Hong Kong.

But this post isn’t about my mother. As soon as my niece Natalia and nephew Yoshke (I gave him that name) heard the word “Disneyland,” I knew I won’t be alone with my mother. They just “had” to be there, the Kids insisted.

So off we went went and my sister tagged along, too. It was their first time to travel abroad so we were so excited.

Anyway, the trip was AWESOME but it felt like the universe was trying to spoil our trip. Haha. We were prepared for the cold but not the rain.

The whole weekend we were there, it was raining. It did not stop until our last night, making it harder for all of us to explore the city. Not to mention that there was constant fear that the two kids with us would get sick while we were there. But we managed and regardless, we still had a blast. Our priority was that my niece and nephew would enjoy so my personal plans were quickly set aside.

Niece smiling for the camera while on the bus on the way to the hotel from the airport

It’s hard to travel with kids. There were a lot of places that I wasn’t able to set foot on because the kids got tired easily and my sister and mother were not confident they could find their way around the foreign city by themselves. They needed me to be with them all the time. I’m not saying kids are a burden when traveling; there’s absolute joy just seeing genuine happiness in their eyes. I’m just saying that I will be back. This time, no kids. LOL!

But here are some more of their pics.

At Cinderella's Carousel

Carrying Saturn

The Promil Kids and the Chipmunks ๐Ÿ˜€

I will also take my family to Singapore next year!

I’ll post my blow-by-blow account of our Hong Kong trip including the budget on my travel blog, not here. But I’ll start writing about it as soon as I finish work.

Comments

  1. sayang i was expecting for an anecdote or isa na namang malupit na banat mula sa promil kid hahaha

    but it was nice to see the famous promil kids hehe at hongkyut ng panda raincoats nila

  2. Sooooooooo cute!

    While I’ve never traveled with kids in tow, I can only imagine what it would entail. And while the rain somewhat put a damper on your trip, you’d never it from the joy in these kids’ faces.

    You’re a good uncle and son. While I love my own kinsmen, I very seldom travel anywhere with them because, as Winston Churchill once said in his Blood, Sweat, and Tears speech:

    “..we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight on the hills.”

  3. I’m also going to tour my mom around the world soon!

    Anyway, what’s the link for your travel blog? I want to check your blow-by-blow account of you HK expenses. Thanks and God bless!

  4. Panda rain coat! That aside, I always wanted to tour with my mum. She rarely travels not because she doesn’t want to but she just don’t have any time. Maybe in the very near future. Can I just say Panda rain coat?!

  5. well.. i would say…
    “good for you all” that got the chance to travel abroad…
    me, i’ve never been anywhere in the world…
    just here…

    when i was a kid…
    i always wished for that to happened… but never did…
    when i get older…
    i still wished… but still never did…
    now, i’m in my 30’s… still never did…

    but still wishing it would come true…
    and still wishing to come true…
    but now, not only for me…
    but also for my own family…
    for my husband & son…

    i wish to make my wish come true!

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