Saturday, December 10, 2011

Day 3 at Melbourne

Had some time in the morning so we went to Queen Victoria Market since its near our hotel

Lots of food, fruits..and its very clean n tidy


The two of us were crazy enough to buy a carton of mangoes n carrying them back to the hotel..lol :P

Tour started with a farm visit at Philips Island..


Horse riding..


Lots of animals that roam freely

We get to get in close contact with the farm animals too..

Next was chocolate factory..


Pic made with chocolates

This is one tonne of chocolate
Made my name out of chocolate too..

Amaze things was next..

Lots of things to play inside..something like science center..

Then Koala time..was looking forward to it cos i wan to hug the koala..but in the end....

I can only watched them from afar..cos they were all wild koalas..

Last to end the day was the penguin parade



Was waiting in the rain for their return..wet wet wet! and they return so late..at around 8 plus pm..nevertheless, they were a cute batch of furry animals..lol :P

Friday, December 09, 2011

Day 2 at Melbourne

Day 2 started off with the Mashcombe Maze..

Lots of lavender in the garden..


Lots of flowers n flowers..


We also go around playing in two mazes and we managed to exit the mazes quite fast too..

Lunch was chicken mushroom pie..
With lavender ice cream which i really cant stand it..
Then it was strawberry picking time :)

Had strawberry ice cream too..yummy!

Then it was hot spring time but since kelly cant go so i acc her loh..

We did managed to test the hotspring with our legs..lol..

Relaxing while waiting for others
Then it was back to hotel after dinner..since it was still early, we decided to go town and shop.

Unfortunately we lost our way back to the hotel cos we were following the wrong map..argh..
Walked rounds and rounds for half an hr to one hr before we finally found the hotel..

While we were lost, i spotted AE86 in Melbourne too :)

Thursday, December 08, 2011

1st day at Melbourne

Holiday in Melbourne..going for a 6days tour but in actual fact its only 4days cos 1st n last day were all in the air..

My first trip to Melbourne on A380..

After 7hrs and 15mins we reach the airport..
First stop for the tour, a gold mine exhibition..

A very oldies western place..

There was even a horse carriage..

The gold mine tour..

We had to sit on a tram n it traveled down into the underground..it was pitch dark for a few minutes before we reach the bottom..

The tunnels

Guide demonstrating how to do the gold mining..

The gold museum

2nd stop is the Eureka skydeck

Super nice view of the whole Melbourne

Next stop was St Patrick's Cathedral

Saw a super big christmas tree n had to snap a pic with it..

Went to Fitzroy Gardens to see flowers n flowers

Dinner was at a chinese restaurant

Back to the hotel at around 7 plus but the sky still seems so bright!!

Sunday, December 04, 2011

Christmas coming soon...

Christmas coming soon and we went to see see the Christmas lightings at orchard road..

The few pics we took..

I love December!