~My Life~ Happiness & Joy Vs Sadness & Sorrow: Day trip...

Sunday, October 22, 2006

Day trip...

After the zoo outing on Thursday, there's no particular outing on Friday. At first we planned to go St Kilda but it was cancelled. (Wow! I have to admire myself man... I remember so well!) Wen Kai flying back that day, Yin Ci stayed home, me, May, Joyce, John and Zhong Yong went out for lunch at Shanghai Dumpling, favorite lunch venue on Friday.

Half way thru, we saw this ad of Melbourne day trip centre, took a brochure and head to lunch. Decided to go this day trip of Puffing Billy+Yarra Valley+Healsville the next day, cost $130 after discount. Perhaps we made a booking of 9 plp, the gang+Janet & friends, so we got the discount.

Also, I accompanied May, Joyce & Zhong Yong to RMIT open day, got a nice goodies bag. After that, go hanging around and attracted by FOX 40% off sales. Both May & I bought thongs which turn out to be not really comfortable to wear, nevermind, I bought tees too. Later, went Max Burner, believe me, this is my first time going to Max Burner. Ate waffle then off to shopping again! Went Myers and both of us bought sunnies from Basement. They are Playboy ones & had 50% off already reduced price, so i bought on a kiasu mindset. Cheap mah~~~

Kinda out of topic. Let's go into our day trip on Saturday now. We travel by coach, first stop was at Dadenong Ranges, we were served Morning tea there. Tasted Billy Tea, Lamington & Crackers with Vegemite. And we get to feed birds here. May is so excited (she love birds!). The birds are wild & we saw a few different type of them like Parrots & some which I dunno their names. :p Zhong Yong got beaten by a big bird, pity him...

The girls feeding bird

Then, we are off to the reknowned Puffing Billy, the old steam train ride. Obviously, we were the noist plp on the carriage. We are so so excited, took pictures all the way, from start to the end of the ride. We can cling ourselves onto the 'bars' during the ride too. That's cool man! Btw May wore different socks on both feet. Speechless...

Puffing John??? Haha..Dunno why all of us pointed at John. On our way to the ride...

Trying to pull the old train down! Outside the carriage.

Joyce, Yin Ci & me in front of the Puffing Billy

After that, we travel by coach to a winery in Yarra Valley, Ferguson's Winery. It's spring now so we cant see any grapes. Too bad... Had our lunch there, roast beef + salad, quite good though. But the wine served at lunch are not to our liking, not that I know how a good wine taste like but it's not nice to drink lo... While others are doing some wine tasting after the spit roast luch, we as usual went outside to snap shots. The driver had to chase us on to the bus as we were so busy posing at the winery and unwilling to leave. Typical us...taking photos at every inch we can find.

Cheers~~~ Yin Ci, me & May

With our tall driver + Janet's group

Yeah! Anyone notice the background, the scenery is so breathtaking, I come here again!

Decision time- We were given a choice of wildlife park or wineries. I wanna go to both though but we can only chosse one, since we were not interested in wine tasting so we went to Healsville Sanctuary. Followed by another decision where we had to chosse visiting animal hospital or watching bird show. May chossen the latter and the other of us abondened her. I visited animal hospital, nothing fantastic, only get to watch the staff there feeding an injured baby wallaby, listen to several types of wildlifes' heart beat and snap a few photos that made May jealous of us. Haha! Btw the animals here are so much better than Melbourne Zoo ones, at least they are more active. Also we can get a closer look of them and there were guides explaining to us all the way thru.

According to the guide, the Kangaroos arent moving around because it's hot. What the hell? It's not hot lo... I finally know why I'm always lazying around, it's not my fault though, it's the influence of Australia, see koala also sleep more than a dozen hours, kangaroos also so relax, you cant admit the fact that I'm influenced by the environment...