A day in the life of A Filipino Family Living in the UAE #2: Cassiel's first Movie Experience!

Hi Asean hivers! I hope you all are doing fine! I have heard that there was a typhoon in the Philippines last week and many of our fellow countrymen from the Visayas region was greatly affected by the typhoon odette. My prayers goes out to all the families that has been greatly affected. I hope reliefs will come their way since Christmas is fast approaching. Be safe all Asean hivers!

Anyways, but here in the other side of the world. "Spiderman no way home" premiered on Thursday (16 December 2021). My husband has been talking about this movie since last October! Multiple times he will tell me that we need to watch this movie in the movie theater, and so we did even before spoilers on the internet came in.

This is our family friday bonding for this week. We went out to last Friday to catch the movie with our eldest son. He was a fan of Spider Man Miles Morales, so we thought of bringing him with us so that his first cinema experience will be memorable. We are not so sure on how he will keep relaxed, calm and not bored with the 2 hours and 45 minutes movie but for his first movie I can say that he managed to behave himself so well.

The cinemas seating capacity was limited align with the UAE government's restriction. And as a requirement to all the people who are coming to the mall, they should have recent negative PCR test (within 14 days) and they should be vaccinated. All of these efforts to get rid of the spread of the virus so that finally we can all get our lives back to normal, and it is working!

My son stayed quiet for 2 hours, watching and laughing when the people are laughing too. But after 2 hrs he kept on asking me how long it will take more to finish the movie. I think he was a bit sad it was not Miles Morales. The movie was great, I will give it 8/10 rating. I don't want to go on details so I will not spoiled any Spiderman fans here.

Christmas Tree at the Cinema entrance

After the movie we needed to get back home. It was such a bummer we couldn't bring Caden with us since he is still a baby and he have to stay with my brother at home, but before we went home, we passed through the mall's Christmas themed decorations, the mall was filled with such and You can really feel the Christmas spirit. You can see how UAE also respects other cultural tradition of the expatriate living here. As an Asean from the Philippines that celebrates Christmas, we really appreciate these kind of things. It makes us feel like home. Nothing like a Philippine Christmas, but these efforts from the malls makes you feel like you are back home. We will be coming back soon, or maybe to other Christmas village of course with baby Caden next time. Here are our snaps from the place.

Giant Christmas tree in the middle of the mall.

Little Christmas Village entrance.

Me and My Husband, Photo taken by my son. He had a great angle.

I hope you liked my photos! It was a great for my son to have his first cinema experience! And also, we enjoyed this bonding. See you next time!

Thank you! Until next time!

@klarayle. xx

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