Melbourne Trip

Okayy so i finally got the pics from my mom, so im here to blog about my melbourne trip. Beware, long post. We were supposed to take the 9pm flight, so we left house at..5pm? I think. Did the usual checking in and stuff. My mom saw that our seats are at 59 EFGH, and she was so pissed that its gonna be the seats at the very back, where we have to endure the smell of the toilets and the heat of the engines (had a bad experience once), but turned out, it wasnt the last. Plane was really warm, we just thought the air con was not turned on, since a lot of ppl are not on board yet. BUT WE WERE WRONG. After waiting like 15 mins, the plane captain told us that the air con got problem, need to wait for engineers to come and fix. There were also no other available planes, so we had to endure the warm conditions for one whole freaking hour. ZOMG.

Reached Melbourne the next day in the morning. The time there is 3 hours ahead of singapore time. After waiting ages for our whole tour group to gather (26 ppl, including my family), we finally left to tour around. We didnt head to hotel straight, cos the plane delayed everything, and we didnt have much time left. We took a coach, got to know our driver Nick, our tour guide Nancy, and the rest of the group. After travelling for like 1 hour+, we arrived at Ballarat Wildlife Park.

Me and my bro.

We had close contact with animals like Kangaroo, Koalas, Echidnas, Wombats, Eagles, but mostly Kangaroos since they are everywhere. Also saw many snakes and crocodiles.

Me feeding a Kangaroo. The very first thing we saw after we entered. Everyone was afraid of touching it, so i went to touch it first, and everyone else followed. The lil kangaroo is so cute. HAHAHA.

My family with a Koala. I wanted to carry it, but the guide said there's a national law that normal ppl are not supposed to hug them. =/ There were 2 more koalas on a tree branch, but they were not in the mood for phototaking, kept looking away, so they arent in this pic. xD

Me with wombats. OWN UP! Whoever's thinking that wombat is a type of bat. LOL. They're all sleeping, and dont seem to wake up even when so many ppl are touching them. I bet they wont even know if they got raped. =x Anyway, it was really funny, cos they were covered by some metal wall at first, so nothing could be seen. When the guide opened the door, this small lil girl saw the wombats and started crying. HAHAHA.

We didnt take pics for other animals. But the entire tour around the wildlife park was FUN. The animals are so cute and friendly. I seriously dont mind working there with the animals, gonna be fun. Anyway, we went to the Great Ocean Road next. Supposed to have fish and chips there for lunch, but we were way behind time, so we just stopped somewhere are ate Macdonalds. LOL. It's crazy, beef burgers are much cheaper than chicken burgers there. Was quite excited at first, cos there're a few burgers that are not seen in Singapore, like the triple cheeseburger, and the double beef and bacon burger. I had the double beef and bacon burger and... -.- It's just a double cheeseburger, with a layer of bacon on top. And i've nvr liked mac's fries, so dam salty. I always remove the salt before eating them, which takes a great deal of effort, and always results in the table being salty. Oh and they had a national law that people are supposed to clear their own tray after eating, there arent any workers to help you clear your tray. Good place to cultivate good habits. Hahaha.

Anyway, after another 1hr+ ride, we reached the Great Ocean Road. Our tour guide was hilarious. Her chinese is pathetic, she didnt know how to say 12 wen2 tu2(apostles), and kept saying 12 sheng1 xiao4(zodiac). HAHAHA. The air there was really fresh, though i couldnt really breathe well with my flu. And the scenery was beautiful, the great ocean. Zomg.

Me and family, with the broken london bridge behind. Whoever took geog before will know what happened to that bridge. Story goes that 2 ppl were stranded on the lonely piece of rock when the bridge broke, and a helicopter had to be brought in to rescue them.

My mum, bro and myself, with the great horizon behind.

Family, with the apostles behind. Supposed to have 12, 5 eroded, and only left with 7. But only can see 3 in this pic.

Okayy actually got a few more pics here, but lazy to upload. So after this, we went to eat dinner! Zomg buffet, and a lot of stuff are beef. My mom and bro had a hard time, cos they dont like beef. But i loved it, and ate so much. =/ And we went to our hotel. Didnt stay at melbourne city that night, stayed in some hotel in Ballarat. Stupid, we reached the hotel, found out another tour group from China took our rooms, so we didnt have rooms although we booked it. The hotel staff didnt even check whether the names of the ppl and number of ppl match, they just saw that china group was quite big, and just gave them the room. -.- Nancy sorted things out somehow, and we went to our rooms.

Next day morning, had buffet for breakfast, so ate a lot again. We then went to Murrays Lookout. Great view.

Can see all the little houses from there. But theres nothing much other than the scenery. So we went on to Geelong to the strawberry farm! We were given this plastic container to pick as many strawberries as we want, but we have to be able to close the cover, if not have to pay more. Also, we're not allowed to eat while picking the strawberries. But nobody cares actually, there isnt any strict surveillance, so our tour guide was telling us to pick one, eat two. HAHAHA.

Mom, bro and me with the strawberries we picked, and the farm behind. OWN UP! Whoever thought strawberries grow on tall trees. HAHAHA. The strawberries are really BIG and RED and taste so NICE. But my container was too full, and i got caught. Or rather, the person just called me to a station to pay extra. I just took out one strawberry, popped it in my mouth, and showed the person that mine can cover, so i didnt have to pay extra. LOL. Then we were provided with strawberry ice cream after all that picking. Wasnt exactly fantastic, but its free ice-cream! Im like my dad, ice cream lover. =)

We were actually given one whole hour to pick the strawberries, but all of us finished it within 20 minutes. We had free time, so the tour guide brought us to an apple farm next! No, no picking of apples, just there to take a look.

Look at the apples, so SMALL. Want to pick also cannot. Hahaha. Its not the season, i think, or the staff picked all the big ones already. They also had a cherry farm, but its not accessible by car, and its 1km WALK away, so we didnt go. But the staff there gave us free samples of cherries. Zomg they're so big and sweet!

We went to the Ashcombe National Park afterwards. No, not more animals, it's plants this time. There are so many flowers in there, but mostly lavenders. There's a lavender maze, a rose maze, and a high hedge maze. It's really a maze, have to walk around to find the way out. But was quite easy to get out, no kick. HAHAHA.

Lavender maze. My bro was kinda scared to stand there, cos there are SO MANY bees around. Like really really a lot! Ohh i forgot to mention. Now is houseflies season, so there are A LOT of houseflies around. They just stay on your shirt and fly around your face, so irritating. =/

At night, we went to philip island! Went to a chocolate factory, but workers all stop work already. Go there only see machines. o.o Bought some chocolate lar, but didnt buy a lot, cos my dad dont want give my mum money. LOL. Andd we went to the penguin island afterwards! We're supposed to camp around in this sea shore, and wait for the penguins to come back from fishing. Had to wait till nightfall, which is like 9pm cos of daylight savings. And the penguins came back from the sea! They're really small, like only 30+cm, and cute. They build their home, small lil caves, on a small hill. The penguins will return in groups, like 7~10 per group. They will come to shore and swim back to sea while waiting for the whole group to come. Then 1 will stay behind to wait for another group while the rest go home. I bet they're really muscular, climbing hills to go home everyday. But no pictures though, cos at night, need flash to take picture. But no flash allowed, cos may blind the penguins.

Okayy im quite tired from blogging, will blog more tmr or something. xD