Tourists of Oz

Went to Melbourne/Sydney with Meow last Tues. Was a great break.

Tuesday - landed in Melbourne airport, rented a Hertz Toyota Camry, !!! no GPRS system! Impacted the whole trip as I did not print out any maps. Managed to find our way to the Crown hotel (original rate 800AUD, wotif.com rate 300AUD). Walked across the bridge to the Aquarium and saw sharks. what big ones!

Didn't make it in time to see the rest of the musuems. one of the musuem recep allowed us in for free for 15 mins cos it's closing time. We went for a walk around in China town... the wind started and it got quite cold.

Meow saw a nice pair of cufflinks selling (200AUD). Luckily we didn't buy it cos we got to buy the same for 30AUD at Sydney airport a few days later.

Met our handsome colleague for dinner and i passed him a Terry Pratchet book. As a co-fan of the author, he was trilled. Meow was disappointed with the oysters, he was expecting huge ones. hahah.

We won 5AUD at the casino at night, after 3 hours of struggle.. was fun.

Wednesday - the longest drive ever. I'm the silly meow that didn't know Melbourne to Sydney drive along the Freeway is 8 hours with nothing to see on the way there at all. Good thing Meow didn't get angry.. just a lot of poutings along the way and complaining that as a Singaporean I have no idea how big a country can be... hee hee hee.. true true.

Arrived in Wollongong (great recommendation by the old uncle bellboy at the Crown) at dinner time. Nice little town. Stayed Ibis Hotel, thanks to Meow's secretary who booked it for us on Wotif when i called her during the long drive.

Thursday - went to the beach at Wollongong. nice. saw seagulls and surfers. Went to Crown Street Spotlight. Disappointed cos that's the only store that sells Yarn in Wollongong and the prices are the same as in SG. Nevertheless, Meow encouraged me to buy some mohair yarn (32 balls!!!) that he thought was nice, sweet sweet meow. Had some lunch and Meow got his Latte and we were on the road again to Sydney.

Arrived in Sydney, we went for a drink. in his drunken state Meow poured half my grasshopper on his black berry so at home the cats are in the habit of giving it a lick now and then. Wild life park is a small cubic building which contains more than we could guess. Kind of like the harry potter magic house where the exterior looks small but the interior is a whole zoo. Went Sydney opera house, nearly caught Macbeth but unfortunately tickets all sold out. they would be showing marriage of Figaro the next day but we won't be around to catch it.

Blue mountains and Sydney office folks, next blog.