Second Umrah trip for the family

Alhamdulillah – we completed our 2nd umrah trip to Makkah last weekend. Unlike the first one, we were “quite” well prepared this time knowing what to expect from the children.
We left Riyadh at around 8pm, Wednesday night on a Saptco bus with 7 families (almost 50 of us from the “Sri Wangi” aparment!) and reached Makkah 12 hours later.
Ammar was in ihram for the first time but only later when we reached Haram (we were at Miqat area at fajar , crowd was huge at the changing room + subuh almost ended so I only managed to get Imran to wear ihram ) Around 8am the bus reached the New Safa hotel and 30 minutes later we were ready to do the tawaf –Masjidil Haram was just around the corner + we can see the Door 56 from the hotel.
Thanks to Bro. Zamhari , an ustaz accompanied us during this umrah, he lead us during tawaf and saie + giving us a short tazkirah too before dinner.

As for the family — our tawaf was OK, I carried the 10kg “baby” Alysha all the way + holding Imran while ummi taking care of Ammar and Sabrina.
The new saie area was crowded that day as they’re still renovating the original one (also Saudi school holidays!) + it was quite dusty , so Sabrina started crying after the 4th round –Ammar was cool, Imran was busy chatting with his new best friend Amir and Alysha was asleep on my shoulder.
We completed the umrah 1 hour before Zuhur at 11.30am and all of us went straight back to hotel.
As usual I bought few books from the bookshop here, my Imran also asked me to buy him a Quran to be given to his favourite ustaz “mengaji” — I was surprised at first but glad that he appreciated his Quran teacher.
Our bus left Makkah around 3.30pm to head back to Riyadh — we reached home on Saturday, 9th February at 2am . Alhamdulillah!