Last week, my mom, Chez, Jay and I decided to go visit kuya Reggie and his family in Hong Kong. It's been a year and 5 months since I've been there and to tell you frankly, that last trip, though it has some good memories, was my dad's last trip before he died. So going there now kinda got me a little giddy; I honestly didn't know what to expect now that this trip didn't include dad.
I even asked my mom if it were going to be an emotional trip for me since I am the only family member left who hasn't been to Hong Kong after dad died. (Mom went there on Jinggay's graduation while Chezka and Jay spent their honeymoon there) So they, pretty much, know what to expect this time around.
Praise be to God that it wasn't that emotional for me. Yeah, every once in a while someone would blurt out, "I miss dad" but what can you do? Everybody did and does still miss dad.
But we managed to make this trip memorable. We went to Macau and stayed at the Venetian for measly pennies and went to Disneyland two days after. We had a blast in both places. Even though 75% of the Macau trip was spent walking around looking for restaurants and our room, it was so worth it.
Disneyland naman we had to go through that place under the rain. That was the only day we could go so sumugod kami.
On both those trips, we thought of dad again and I told mom that at least now, he is resting and that mom is finally maximizing her vacation and having fun with us.
So overall, the trip was the bomb. Yeah, it would have been much better with dad around but God does know what is best and we could not go against that.
And I couldn't have wanted it any other way.
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