Melbourne Trip Day 4

Back. Saturdays are starting to get boring. Shall try to continue updating the trip as much as i can before i forget most bits of it.

Day 4 was to be the highlight of our trip. We are finally gonna do some activities instead of plain sight-seeing and loads of eating! We were gonna do snorkerlling and horse riding!

We went to Mornington Peninsula. We visit Mornington on our previous trip to Melbourne. We were suppose to do horse riding then but so happened the horses had the flu and had to be quarantined.

We went to Port Sea to for a snorkelling session. We were too early for our session so we went for a little exploration and photo taking ard Port Sea.

The beaches were beautiful but we were irritatingly bugged by flies. If pple were observing us might think we were having fun at the beach, but we kept running ard wildly to run away frm the flies. Haha!!

The snorkelling session was quite fun! We had the full wet suit on because the water was really cold that day, ard 20-21 deg C. It was rather hard to move with the suit because its quite bouyent and the currents are rather strong. We saw some fishes call "leather jackets", "goat fish", the sea dragon (a sea horse) and also many many puffer fish!! Puffer fish are so cute!! Wanna grab them home!


The jetty which we snorkel under. This is where we saw the sea dragon and cute puffer fishes!


A group of divers getting ready for their dive.


We spotted a sky glider? (what are they called?) while at the beach.


The beach


A beautiful lookout.

After a quick rinse, we head for our horse bush trails. Both of us were kinda nervous. It was our first time to ride on a horse. The horses were so huge!! eeek! I got a horse called "CHewy" and BC got on a horse called "Jet". My horse was the greedy kind. The moment I got on, he went for a drink and grab a bite on the grasss. hehe! N the horses are not allowed to feed on the grass outside the stable. So during the bush ride, i had to keep pulling his head back to stop him from eating.

The scariest thing happened midway during our session. We were moving on a single file (1 instructor, BC, me and the other instructor) as the pathway in the bush trail is rather narrow. Then we were going down a small slope where the front instructor's horse suddenly stop moving and refuses to move forward.Then in the quick second, the horse threw the instructor off and the horse kinda fell (not completely, because of the bushes) to the side. It was so scary! BC said he wanted to jump of the horse during that moment but he knew it be worse if he got off. I was shocked. We cant move anywhere in that tight position....n we were afraid our horses will be influenced by her horse and gone berserk too.

After that, we did a u turn and continue to rearrange our position (the berserk horse and instructor is at the back this time round) and then continue out ride. In my mind, I was hoping we turn back. The instructors later explained the horse was scared by the shadows of the trees and that's why he refuse to move. Poor horse. But its was a really dangerous moment manz.

We din exactly enjoy our ride after that.


Victory pic of us surviving the ride... KEKE.


Our mucus was black after the horse ride. This was like my 4th tissue. Imagine the amount of dust and horse's poo vapour i breathe in. ( i forgot the horses keep pooing during our ride..haha)

We headed back for a quick shower and then met up with BC's ex roommates for a Korean BBQ dinner. Sweet gals and a cute brother. We wanted to give them a treat and ended up being treated by them. An enjoyable dinner. We ended the night early as we had to wake up early for the arrival of our other travel mates the next day.


Hmmm.. we all looked kinda solemn dun u think? haha.

Ends Day 4.

CNY Weekend!

Manage to celebrate abit of CNY over the weekends! Celebrated with frns, not with family though.

We went pgy's house for steamboat on saturday! hehe! We were in-charge of getting the beef. We went Meidi-ya to get some shabu shabu beef, shabu shabu pork, bbq beef and some other miscellaneous stuffs. Spent ard 100. HoHo! Sinful steamboat!




Yu Sheng kindly made by Pgy's mummy.


Lao ah! Huat ah! ( where am i? taking the pic!... keke!)


This was just 3/4 of what we had... keke!


BBQ our fatty beef! Sinful!!


Let's EAT!!


After dinner, the guys played mahjong and the gals played blackjack! I was winning!! Until PGY started eating up all our money towards to end. keke! Look how filled her turtle coin bank is!! My money is in there!!! boo hoo!

We all had great fun that night! thanks for all the trouble pgy and your mummy!

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On sunday, i met my gals for our annual CNY gathering. But we were 3 gals short this year. Our group felt so small. So sad!

We went The Paramount for dim sum. Very little selection choice of dim sum. I think it was because of its CNY period. The dim sum tasted pretty ok. Din take any pics.

I wore a bright red cheongsum-like dress. Trying to get into the festive mood. But I feel i look like those chinese restaurent waitress."Ha Gow, Siew Mai, CHar sao bao?" keke! Thank goodness the waitress at paramount werent wearing red cheong sums. keke

Then we went Auddie's house to lou hei! hehe! Went to get Sakae yu sheng again! Its really quite tasty manz. They summore buy extra sashimi from the Japanese shop. So fresh!! Mmm!!! ALso, Auddie's mummy specially peel pomelo for us to put in our yu sheng! give it such a nice refreshing and tangy twist to it! We kept pinching the pomelo towards the end. Keke!




We were trying to think of all the auspicious words as we pile up the rest of the ingredients. HAha! It was quite funny cause we came up with all sorts of "chen yu". Only ah mei is the best can think out of appropriate ones.


All SET!!


Huat AH! 10 million toto is ours!! Haha!!


After we lo hei, auddie's mother ask us to pick a number each! we got 7 numbers in all! Can buy system 7! haha! Summore, i heard this yr is a good year of wealth for those born in the year of the dogs. Haha! I have a good feeling of the numbers we picked out. I bought already! hehe!!

It's a pity I couldnt stick ard to play cards cause we have a dinner appointment that night.

Now it feels more like CNY to me...
Jus a couple more days left....

Melbourne Day 3

Had a super filling steamboat session at a frn's place earlier. Decided to stay up a little to blog about 1 more day since i feel so full still and still feel so awake after my bath.

Melbourne day 3 was another long and tiring day ahead! We were heading to the Grampians! Another 5 hours drive away too! yikes!! Our itinery did not even had a timeslot for our meals! Got to pack our meals!

Woke up in the early morning to find BC cooking away! There was mushrooms, scrambled eggs and bacon. He even made such beautiful sandwiches with them. Suddenly, i felt ashamed as a woman. Haha!




All packed and ready to go in our "Lock-Lock" containers. keke!

We were suppose to head to an orchard as our first stop to pluck some fruits for our consumption! The main reason I resisted buying some fruits from vic mkt the day before. Turn out the orchard only open on sundays!! imagine the frustration! The website states that it opens everyday!!! They obviously did not update their website!

All we could do is to stare at the rows n rows of ripe apples tree infront of us but unable to reach them. The longer we see the apples, the more we felt cheated. SO we decided no matter what we should go down and take a few pics. So we stopped our car and went down to snap a few pics of us with the apples. In the end, an apple fell while BC was holding a branch. Both of us look at each other and went "opps", quickly grab the fallen apple and went into the car! hahaa! I think at that time we needed something to satisfy our cheated feeling. We were so happy! Only thing the apple was not ripe enuff! So hard! it was really sweet though! imagine how nice the ripe apples will be.


So near but untouchable!


God's gift to us! Haha!

We then head towards grampians! Took a toilet stop at some park and saw a group of aussie aunties doing taiji! decided to snap a pic of them for my mother to see!



After few more hours of navigating (for me) and driving (for him), we finally arrive 1 of the information stop at the Grampians national Park.



We decided to take our lunch break @ the picnic area before going to visitor's information counter to see which scenic spots of the national park we should visit. We finally decided that we should head for Mackenzie falls and then stop by any scenic spots while we are on the way there. We were looking for spots where we need to walk the least. If u noe by now, we are really lazy pple. keke!

I really forgot all the names... and at this hour, my brain is pretty much gone. so jus enjoy the pics.






Nice rocks.




My arse was being roasted by the hot rocks to take this pic... HAHA!



The mackenzie falls pics are next. This was suppose to be a breezy walk! I got cheated by the brochure!!! It was such a long walk to get to the fall. and it was a pretty small fall. I nearly died climbing back up. We went past a norwegian old couple. I think they were pretty amused abt how weak i was. I mean they have difficulties getting back up but I was the one taking loads of long stops to rest. The super hot weather that day made it 10x worse!! I never felt my heart beat so fast! i think i seriously lack exercise!


it didnt seem to be so far from the top..


the path still looks breezy...


After many steps and turning! We finally reach the bottom of the falls!


Got to take more pics to make the walk more worthwhile!


Taking a pee... HAHA! no la! Jus on 1 of the big rock to cross to the other side of the river or watever u call it.


"Mr Evil" was so amused about how weak I was... decided to take pics of me even though he is dying frm the climb back up too...


If i could, i will have "whack" him. But i was at the stage that nothing matters anymore.... all i wan is to be back up there......dun wanna climb anymore!!!


My reward...... I rewarded myself! haha! i felt i deserve it big time!




@ another scenic lookout. I was so tired.... i did wanna go for anymore scenic places!! jhaha!

We decided to head to another destination stated in our itinery. But we were so tired from our climb we stop our car by the roadside again and slept for an hour odd. After that, we really felt like going back to Melboune. I was starting to crave for Mekong already after the long walk! I was hoping we can make it back in time! But its another 5 hour drive back. We decided to look at the melway for an alternative route back..I glad we did... we make it back in less than 3 hours time. Weee!!


a quick snap from the car at some place before we stop for our nap.


some silly stunt we were doing to make our car ride back more passable....

we saw 2 really huge and beautiful rainbows on the way!









We made it for Mekong! We arrive ard 9 plus! wee! Absolutely famished!!! BC sae not as nice as before but I cant rem the before taste. HAha! I still think its kinda nice.







After dinner, we decided to give our favourite roulette machine 1 more chance!!


I glad we did! Cause we won 20 over bucks!! Love the sound of the coins dropping from the machine! It isnt much! But we sure gotten loads of coins after that! keke!

That's all for day 3!
N thats all for tonight...