Maiden Batam trip-Part 2

What do you expect to do when you go on a trip with all women? Shopping of course!

With 2 hours left to the returning ferry for those not staying over, we make a rush stop at a local provision store for shopping.

Mr Love is somehow used to seeing how madly his ex-colleagues shop but not me. Haha This is the first time I seen them in action.

Frankly speaking, I am not a good shopper overseas since I do not like to lug the heavy items back home. The funny thing is I am now at the stage of not wanting my home to be piling up with useless things we buy on impulse. That being said, I might sometimes lost control. This is the reason why we changed a minimal sum to avoid over buying. Haha.

Local provision store

I did not know why this store was chosen, think is because 1 of them came here on their previous trips. Anyways, they sell all sorts of keropok here and some very nice chilli sauce that can be used for cooking.

But it was the shop on the opposite street that caught their attention. It's a shop selling all sorts of Hello Kitty and many other cartoon characters items. Water bottles, soft toys, bags, stationaries and tons of other thing you can think of but mostly it's kiddos' stuff. Most importantly the prices here are cheap. I mean real cheap.

I didn't go into the shop since there isn't much time left and we went back to the car and chit chat with Mr Love's ex boss. Furthermore, I knew I will lost control and start buying all sorts of cutie stuff available in the shop.

The other ladies got excited when the 2 who went in came back and share their loots. End up, everyone else got down the van again and went in for a quick shopping despite having a ferry to catch in less than an hour. We stayed in the van still to chat. Haha Mr Love was impressed by my self control today.

We finally set off to the ferry terminal 10mins later with most of the ladies having a big bag of loots from the rushed shopping. Haha. Our hotel is right beside the terminal and we proceed to check in before moving out to the next destination -Barelang Bridge.

The only attraction here is the bridge and there is a line of street vendors nearby. There was quite a crowd here taking pictures on the bridge and we joined in the fun.

Start of many group shot on the bridge

 The bridge is around an hour ride away from our hotel, giving me some time to catch a wink since I slept only 4 hours the previous day.

 Seriously, there is nothing here except for the bridge. Perhaps the bridge is one of the nicer and modern building in Batam and therefore became an attraction. You see a lot of couples here dating, sitting on the bridge chatting.

We tried a selfie here

With the only kiddo of the group who is obsessed with him

 We spend quite a while here taking photos before going back to the van to go eat dinner. 1 of the street vendor caught our attention and every one began ordering grilled corn from her. I was hesitant to eat from the street for fear of diarrhea but Mr Love decided to  buy 1 and share too.

The helpful driver who took this photo for us

Grilling corns

The corn were tasty and even  sweet. We choose the non-spicy version as Mr love could not handle spicy food well. Some kind soul of the group let me have a taste of the spicy one and it tastes better. Still for the sake of Mr Love, I struck to the non spicy one.

A pic before I savour the corn

A short stopover here and we proceed to our dinner place. It is said to be a kelong inside a kampong. We are so looking forward to another tasty and cheap sea food dinner tonight.