Year 02: Melbourne Trip - The Summary

we had a short holiday in Melbourne for 5 days and 5 nights to celebrate my birthday in advance:

3rd Nov 2010:
we departed from Singapore to head towards Melbourne. check out the cool boy with the headphones:


4th Nov 2010:
we "checked" into our friends' Stanley, Hanna and their two daughters' house and had dinner at Sophia's, where deng yun was actually sleeping due to the jet jag...

5th Nov 2010:
deng yun woke up and watched some Hi-5:


then while on the roads, deng yun was the one driving! well, sort of:


then we met up with my sister-in-law's family for dinner, where deng yun and ting yee had their picture taken with a tram:


6th Nov 2010:
at night, we had dinner at Tim's mother's restaurant where deng yun learned how to balance a spoon with his mouth:


7th Nov 2010:
we said goodbye to Stanley and family and headed towards Mount Dandenong to take a ride on the Puffing Billy, disguised poorly as one of the unheard of characters in Thomas the Tank Engine:


we also visited the Thomas Shop:


and bought nothing but took some pictures with a cardboard Thomas:


we even got to watch a Thomas show that was definitely made for children:


oh, and by the way, this was the car that took us around Melbourne:


after we left "Thomas' World", we checked into a cottage that was 3 levels tall:


for dinner, we had buffet at the Cuckoo Restaurant:


8th Nov 2010:
well, all good things had to come to and end, but not before we visited our old Alma Mater:


"and that concludes our infamous tell-everyone-last-minute-we-are-going-to-Melbourne or tell-no-one-we-were-not-in-Singapore trip!" - TheAvt