Sunday, July 27, 2014

Bintan... One more time

Our company organized an off-site event in Bintan the Thursday and Friday prior to a long weekend. 
We had two options: decline and plan a long weekend somewhere nice - which is easy to find in south east Asia; or attend and spend the weekend there. We decided to stay even if it meant going back to the same place we had been two months earlier. 
We packed everything and had Tess joining so we could literally transformed this corporate event into a family trip with Oskar.
While I was not sure how this would work out, it turned out to be a great idea. We could join the event peacefully and not miss seeing Oskar after "work". We even managed to get him to the beach during the break before dinner.
The second day we had breakfast with him and colleagues. Obviously he was the center of the attention of all the girls.
While Wolfram went for archery I took him for a walk under the palm trees.
Later in the day I went snorkeling and saw a lot of funny fish but no Nemo unfortunately. I guess that he was too busy to wait for me to swim my way to the corals near the big rocks.
On Friday we changed hotel going back to Angsana where we had stayed last time. The one of the event was fully booked so we had to find an alternative and I'm not complaining about the choice: we just went back to Angsana.
This time with Oskar very keen to walk, we explore more of the place, we spent lots of time in the pool with him and also in the sea.
Once Oskar warmed up to the idea of the sea and the waves, he didn't want to leave. The Brinton genes are showing up :)
Wolfram, as usual, turned into the red version of himself, which you only get to see at the beach. Oskar did offer his dad his sun cream but the offer was declined. 
Fair enough Oskar's total protection cream is French and not Nivea.







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