(This is a backdated post for 6th December 2009)

As we were admiring the clouds and taking a rest on board Air Asia’s airplane heading towards Langkawi, Darius woke up halfway through the flight from his short nap.

He was a little confused on where he was and started to fidget a little, seemingly wanting to move around the seat. Worried that he might create a fuss, we took out our iPod Touch and played the Train Story video to him. He had liked this story since we first played to him at home on TV so we thought it would be useful for situations like this. True enough, his eyes were fixed onto the screen the moment the story started playing and he watched it quietly.

Since we first boarded the flight, Catherine had been interested to get a special Air Asia teddy bear as a memento for Darius’ first flight. However, despite us asking for it several times, the reply we got was always ‘okay please wait, I’ll come back later’ which the air stewardess never did.

It was only when the pilot informed us that we were about to land on Langkawi that I started pestering the air stewardess again for the bear, that she finally brought it over for us. Well, I didn’t expect much service from Air Asia, being a budget airline, but I had never expected that it would be difficult to even wanting to bring business to them by buying their merchandise. -.-|

Commenerating Darius' first flight!

As we braced for landing, we could catch a glimpse of Langkawi island through the window. Here’s where we would be for the next three days! Hooray! ^^

After we landed safely, we walked down the connecting stairs and landed our feet onto Langkawi Airport. As it is a small airport, we were able to walk onto the landing area of the airplanes towards the arrival hall. That was quite an unique experience for us, to be able to walk alongside the parked airplanes. On the downside, the sun was really shining brightly and the weather was uncomfortably hot.

Going through the customs and picking up our luggage were a breeze.

As we stepped into the airport’s lobby though, several locals came to us to sell us their car rental and taxi services. I had previously researched about car rentals at Langkawi and thought it would be better to check out the rates at the resort first before deciding on a deal. These free-lancers might be providing cheaper rates but the model and condition of their cars might not be comparable to those offered by the resort. Anyway, as I was intending to only drive around the island on our second day, I thought we would be in no hurry to confirm any deal yet.

Langkawi Airport

We then headed to a Kenny Rogers restaurant at the airport for our lunch before we were to head for our resort. We ordered a quarter chicken meal with muffin, spaggetti and soup so that Darius could eat his lunch together with us too.

Joyous first meal at Langkawi

For the side orders, I ordered two sets of their so-called ‘aromatic rice’ and one set of whipped potato. We knew from our Genting trip that the aromatic rice was actually some very tasty rice which tasted like chicken rice and we liked it a lot then.

Together with the chicken soup, vanilla muffin and whipped potato, we fed Darius with spoonfuls of the rice. He seemed to like it a lot and couldn’t stop eating. ^^

After our meal, we headed to the Taxi counter near the exit of the airport, where we told the receptionist of our destination. She then informed us of the taxi fare required and handed us a receipt after we paid RM24 for the ride. I liked this arrangement as errant taxi drivers wouldn’t be able to cheat tourists of their fares.

As we stepped out of the airport towards our cab, a guy handed me his name card. He was supposingly offering car rental services too.

We then boarded the cab and off we go towards our Berjaya Langkawi resort, which would take a 15-minute drive from the airport. Darius was exceedingly joyous and excited, seemingly knowing that we were on a vacation. His good mood helped lifted ours too. ^^

As for the scenery along the journey, it was quite typical of Malaysia and we spotted a few cattles by the roadside.

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