First Anniversary .....

"Days are long BUT Years are short" - he ha .. I felt its so true when I realized Its been a year since I have married.. We both couldn't imagine we completed one year of our togetherness :). Time Just flies, and as I write this .. its been 1.5 year of our marriage and nearly 1 year that I have been here in Singapore..

We Planned a trip to Bintan Island - Indonesia for Anniversary celebrations :) 

Bintan is the largest island in the Riau province, area. It is truly an unique paradise. Simple life, beautiful beach, friendly people which bring us the leisure. The island gives refreshment to our mind. In Bintan island, most of the resorts accept Singapore Dollars (SGD) and  US Dollars (USD).The Bintan Currency is IDR (Indonesian Rupee).Its not equivalent to our Indian Rupee. 

1 SGD = 6000 IDR :) you can imagine the currency difference. Bintan is one of the costly Islands in Indonesia. Will explain  - We have ordered 2 coke Tins in our resort just before check - in. he simply gave 2 coke and bill which stated - 1,44,000 IDR which is equivalent to 24 SGD and 780 INR (Indian Rupee)Ha ha ha... Before going to Bintan , we heard its costly island but it was shock to hear 2 cokes cost around 24SGD :) (FYI - a coke tin in Singapore in just 0.60 SGD)

We boarded Ferry (ship/boat)- It's just 1 hr from Singapore to Indonesia Bintan Island on Ferry.  TanahMera Ferry terminal in Singapore is more or less similar to Mini Airport with Arrival - Departure and Gates as usual :) First time traveling through ferry on Sea.. We were fully exited and a bit nervous too. The Boarding pass is just a card they will give you, the door will open only on taping a genuine boarding pass. Why can't they implement such things in our places...(I have not been to much places , may be it's already there :) ) Finally we are on Board :) wooooo..... The initial 5-10 min were terrible for me... I felt nauseated as sea waves will be more .... after that we enjoyed the beautiful sea Journey, happily eating cashews :D We got down at Bintan Ferry terminal - Indonesia. Its on-Arrival Visa, so we need to take our VISA there in the Terminal. We got Mislead by some stupid terminal officer over there, he managed to gather some people for him (we were also part of them) and he gt our VISA stamped but took double amount that what it usually costs.. :( hmmm.. What can we do... got to be very very cautious and careful...

We booked a resort room already, it has a bus from terminal to the resort. We went out and boarded the bus to Resort...Its nearly one hour journey from terminal to resort... Finally reached the resort and checked Inn... We got refreshed and visited beach...Its awesome... I say awesome... white Sand Beach and Blue Sea...I have seen such beaches only in movies till that date.... but now... I have seen them directly , touched the white sand , played and enjoyed :)Evening we have plan to go for jet ski.. but as the waves are high they have canceled and asked us to come next day morning..We had a walk along the beach awwwwww.... A.B.K was eager to swim , as he got a chance after soo long time after marriage :) We went to swimming pool... Its not too deep, but I dint dare entering the pool as I do not know how to swim. He enjoyed swimming, and I enjoyed resting on swim chairs (:p I mean the chairs which they place all around the swimming pool... Who might have seen in many movies... :) ) After completing this task we went to a beach restaurant  for dinner.Its beautiful dining at sea shore:) seeing  waves.. enjoying  sea breeze... though the dinner doesn't taste much good... I can say we had a nice and pleasant dinner...

Next day morning as usual got up bit late...Entire resort is wifi enabled... All our people came online in skype and wished us for our anniversary(I have my PSP with me ) :) It's nice ... staying sooo long and without mobile access but still .. i am able to talk to my people.. :) We felt happy for that :) .Next we had a complimentary Breakfast from resort :) Its too good:) (For First Time I ate noodles with chopsticks :) not too difficulty but we need to get used for that :D) We went for water sports area and got jet ski tickets and jet bike too :) Initially I was soo afraid I didn't allow ABK to go far inside.. I asked him to just go all along the shore it self, We have got a trainer too .. he advised we can't do jet ski on shores as people can't swim there coz of the fuel from these bikes... Finally I agreed and we went into sea on jet bike......I can't imagine its sooo good... After 5 min of skiing, I don't want to come out of that :) We enjoyed long circles so long from shore that we cant see people on shore :) . We feel as if we are in middle of sea as we see just water all around us.. (chaaron tara paani hi paani :) )Its amazing and wonderful experience.. :) .Our times up after 30 min:( We got some still snaps on jet ski and got down... had some rest at shore and headed back to our main place. (Nirvana Restaurant has many hotels and restaurant along the coast, they provide shuttle buses for every 15 - 30 minutes from one place to others). Reached our room, packed everything, took some nice snaps and finally bus to ferry terminal and ferry to Singapore... 

Totally Totally we enjoyed our trip a lot and captured wonderful memorable moments :)