Melbourne Day 2

This day is city city city all the way for us! keke! It was sunday! It's meant to be relaxing!

So guess where's our first stop? Victoria's Market of course! Wanted to buy some gifts and food!

Victoria's Market seem really quiet this time round. It was sunday and some shops aint open. We learn from BC's friend later that pple are going to another market where things are cheaper and the stalls vendor are friendlier. Guess Vic market is becoming too upmarket for the residents there. I pity the stall vendors though.. even if it is a hot tourist attraction. How much meat, fish and vegetables can tourist buy?! Fruits are still fine. It seems they are there for us tourist to snap photos... hehe!


MEATS!


How come we dun display minced meat like that in Singapore?


The fruits are so fresh and beautiful! I love the colour combination. When can our market vendors start displaying like that? keke!


Banana? Mushroom? then grapes?! haha! so wierd! We bought the mushrooms! They tasted so good!! so chewy!! Mmm!!


All kind of potatos! I shld live here manz!


Apples! Apples! and more Apples!


red, plump and juicy! :p!


A chick pet, anyone?


Fairy costumes!


This pic is for my mum! to make her jealous! haha!

We then headed for our brunch!! wee wee! we were going for dim sum!!! i haven had dim sum for ages.


"har gow... siew mai... char siew bao... "... haha! sorry! its har gow, siew mai and fried wanton! keke!


The carrot cake was delicious! but the veggie thing beside it sux big time! bleahz!!!


Chee Chong FUn.... so so


Fu Pi roll...


Egg Tarts!


This place is really hot in melbourne manz! I was shocked by the long queue when i came out! Good thing we came early!


Went to another place to buy baos! Hehe! They display their baos so interestingly.


Got myself a custard bun! Nice!

We then went smith street for shopping! Loads of factory outlets along the stretch... Did buy much! Cause i still dun feel its that cheap enuff. Haha!

We finished the street much earlier than intended. So we headed back to our apartment for an afternoon nap. We slept for nearly to 3 hours manz! How lazy! haha

We went to Latrobe street for dinner. This street is filled with italian restaurents. It kinda reminds me of boat quay/ clarke quay. The restaurents will have pple to approach you to persuade you to dine in their restaurents.

We finally setttled in a restaurent where there was no1 bugging us.




Pizza was not that nice.


The tortilli with bacon in creamed sauce was super good!


Caesar salad!

We then headed for crown!!! My request!!!

We played Baccarat and won $50!! Weee!! I had my lucky undergarments on that day! HAha!!

After that, we went out to see the Crown's fire. Also met BC's old army frn for a chat and a drink.

A fun and relaxing day it was.

Back! - Melbourne Trip Day 1

Hey peeps! I am back! CNY is ending but i feel like I have not even celebrated it yet! How sad! That's the bad thing abt going overseas during festive season! U miss out on all the fun! GOod thing is that CNY is 15 days long. Gonna catch up on the festive mood this weekend.

The trip was pretty good! But I got really homesick on the last day! Was really glad to be going home! haha!

We headed off for the airport right after work on friday. Thanks to ays, we manage to arrive in airport just in time.

Leaving on a trip straight from work simply means we arrived at Melbourne with the same clothes we wore the previous day at work and also, really exhausted from work and the plane ride. But the excitement of the trip kept us pretty awake in the early morning.

We had a tight itinery that day. We collected our rented vechicle and headed for Lake Entrace immediatly. With our well printed out itinery, detailed google map direction and the supplied Melway (Melbourne's street directory), we headed for our destination. Thanks to BC for his detailed planning. His itinery is well informed, detailed and neatly organised by days. So impressed!

However, Lake Entrance was about 5 hours drive away. After the first 2 hours, we started nodding off. Seeing all the road signs asking us to take power nap made us even sleepier. So we really stopped by the road side to take a powernap! Felt so awake after that!


Our nap stop.... :P


The driver sleeps...

We made a stop at St Mary's church to look at the handpainted ceilings (like the one of michelangelo's). Exact location.... forgot! Itinery isnt with me. Sorry. The church seem so quiet when we arrived. We werent sure whether we could go in. But the doors of the church is always open (during official hours... keke) so we went in anyway.

So beautiful the inside of the church was!! So Magnificant! How i wish I could get married there. I couldnt resist taking some pictures. Pity my pics turn out rather blur.


The altar.


The entrance.


A small section of the ceiling


The outside


Its side view.

Finally Finally! We arrived at Lake Entrance. The scenary was beautiful. I think its a place where the city pple come to for relaxation and enjoy some water activitied. Pity we were not staying there that night cause we could not manage to get accomodation. So we did not plan for any water activities. Although our luggage was still with us, we decided to forgo doing any activties cause there's still a long drive back to melbourne city.

So we took a relaxing stroll around and look for our fish and chips lunch.


Lake Entrance.


Swans & gulls... ard around...


More gulls!


How to escape from fish n chips when u r in aussie?


Crossing the bridge to the beach


Can see the boy? A group of Aboriginal(i think) boys were having fun jumping off the bridge. They were doing it again and again. Like our kampung kids last time.


Lifeguard's hut!


The beach! - Actually, aussie has quite nice and quiet beaches. I wonder why pple bother to go Bali. It is not as beautiful as everyone claims..


1 more pic of Lake Entrance before we head back


Beautiful sky while we were on a way back to Melbourne.

We arrived at Melbourne ard 7 that day. The sky was still shining bright. We checked in and dump our things and then headed for dinner! My favourite! Nandos!!! How i miss it!! Keke!!


My quarter chicken and peri peri fries!!


Yummy sauces! I bought 2 small bottles back to SG!! Hahaha!! :P!

We headed for our favourite roulette game again! We lost 20 bucks! really fast this time! So disappointed! haha!

We went for a short walk ard the city.

We decided to share a second meal @ dessert house. We were really full from nandos! Jus plain greedy cause we wanna try many things and not much days here in melbourne!


Pork chop rice in house sauce + milk tea!! Yumz yumz! We mostly ate the pork chop! The rice was barely touched. The portion of rice is the amount of rice i eat for like 2 days lo! MAdness! BC sae he used to be able to eat that amount. haha!


We went back to our apartment after that. I noticed something funny when BC parked his car.
Can you guess which is our car? keke!

Our apartment looks like some old dorm from the outside but it was pretty clean and nice on the inside. So it was quite comfortable.






My travel mate is so neat. I was so amused when i went to the toilet to find all the toiletries lined up so neatly. Haha!


Forgot to mentioned that i stocked up on my favourite drink! Calpico!! I still cant find it in SG!! :(

That ends our first day! barely did anything but exhausted already! keke!

A pleasant surprise