we got up bright and early to head to paddy's market which is something like a flea market and the bus drivers are all like you've got to go there!! but we got lost again!! and everyone started getting annoyed with everyone...
and my mum just stood in one corner, took pictures of our grumpy faces and sniggered.
but once we reached paddy's market the smiles appeared!
so weird the sign said no pills allowed!
and here's paddy market...abit like bangkok stalls...lots of souvenirs and i ♥ sydney tees..
road sign with felix the cat on it!
bus driver also said there's the best ice cream in sydney near the end of chinatown...
the ice cream was okay only..
but the crepe was awesome!!
then we headed up the bridge right beside the ice cream place to darling harbour...at last..
and coz i had super horrible thigh muscle aches from all the stair-climbing the previous day i couldn't walk properly at all..couldn't even go down the bridge normally..and my family was all the bottom waiting and laughing ))): it was the worst muscle ache ever! and it lasted 3 whole days!!!
here's some scary-looking bark on trees at darling harbour...looks like army camo!
and look! oporto and krispy kreme nxt to each other!
and such a weird name if it were in singapore..heh..
and this was the day i got sunburnt..without even realising it...
yay we walked past the cupcake shop and it was opened!
it was sooo pretty inside. but the queue was pretty long...
and soon it was time to head back...there's sparkling lighted singapore from the plane...
and we're back!
so i guess sydney was much more than i expected..i guess a holiday to anywhere would be fun..loads of food, shopping and new places to discover isn't too bad a deal! and sydney with its huge asian population and friendly ppl made me feel very comfortable!
i ♥ syd (day 4)
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Day 4 of Sydney!
our day out to the blue mountains! was super tired after 3hrs of sleep only..but i slept for 30mins and got jolted awake by something. and our bus was passing past this car sale place where the whole street was occupied by automobile dealers. can you believe it? 40 grand for a bmw suv! i want!!!
first stop of the day was featherdale wildlife park. once i was in, i went bonkers! was like a crazy gal scaring all the animals. guess five days without bitbit did that to me. the kangaroo down there did a quick two-step and skipped off along when i tried to pet it. just look at it trying to avoid me. ))):
and i saw a real pelican for the first time!
it was HUGE!!! and really fierce....
and i was really excited coz on the brouchure they wrote, 'you'll get a chance to hug a koala bear!' so when i saw the koala, i skipped right up to it. and asked the park keeper whether i could hold it. he was super grumpy! he said no. so i was like okay. then i was reaching for the koala's head coz bitbit really like it when i sayang her head. and the park keeper was like no. all i could was to touch its butt. owells..still i was in close proximity to a koala!
next up was feeding the kangaroos! just look at this cutie!! looks a little like bitbit...
lots of hungry roos hopping around. my favourite wonderland..haha...for like half a day!
well they were all slurping my hands like any..and it stank!
found this really different looking kangaroo that ppl were avoiding coz it looked really old. but its fur was really nice to the touch. others were like normal furry animals. this ol' fella's fur felt like velvet! so i took a special liking to it and fed it. but it snatched my entire cone of food and started eating it..goodness!
and after it finished the entired cone. it started to scratch its own body..soo hilarious!
and while we were at the koalas' enclosure, there were two koalas that were like this.
and this australian schoolboy kept pointing out the koalas to my dad haha..and my dad gamely listened to him. oh and i think my mum takes the nicest candid shots...
here's me with the crocodile that's too lazy to hunt for food even when it's given to it voluntarily.
and albino kangaroos!
and this little cute thing which i don't recall its name just kept reaching for my hand. when i was on the bus after leaving the park, i read on the factsheet do not place your hands in the enclosure as some of the animals bite !!!!
same animal. still can't find its name after google-ing it! it starts with a Q though..
and here me and my sis finding something very amusing....
my dad communicating with more australian schoolkids...gosh!
and here's a wombat!
had to go back to revisit the kangaroos which were now really full and sated...
had to revisit the koala as well....
next stop was the blue mountains where the three sisters are!
not really blue in the picture. but it's blue because the eucalyptus trees give out a vapour that gives a blue hue to the mountains...
the bus driver said that it was 60 steps to the bottom of one of the three sisters. apparently he was joking..coz the sign here says it's VERY STEEP for strong walkers only...as usual didn't see the sign until i descended and came up!
rickity rock stairs and mesh steps all the way down..and i have a phobia of heights!
my sis left me at this point )))): my parents decided to give it a miss as their knees weren't feeling that good
the rest of the tour group stopped halfway but i continued with 3 other guys coz how often does one claim that they have been down to the bottom of one of the three sisters.
the view down there was great! but after climbing what seemed like hundreds of steps, we saw a sign that said HALF WAY POINT. gosh.
so we decide to turn back...i wanted to take the rear end coz i didn't want to hold up the front. but the guys were like we're all supposed to go tgt as a group. so as we climbed and climbed, my thighs started getting trembly and weak. and i didn't dare stop or slow down too much as they were all behind me. thank god one of the guys made us stop for breaks along the way. took pictures on the break too..here i am with this guy who's super metrosexual! he wears super thin cigarette pants and loud belts and pointy glittery shoes! haha and he came along today as it was an optional tour. his parents have been to the blue mountains before so they didn't want to go along...and his brother is too young to follow him..
one of the other guy who skipped past me on the way down and said 'take your time arhh' while i was on my slow way down coz i was super scared...boooo...and metro guy is wearing a belt that says playboy...ahaha...
bernice was at the top waiting for me awwww and she suggested we take gossip girl shots...which are shots taken while walking..or define it again if i'm wrong!
then we headed on bus to something 5 mins away...the world's steepest ride i believe!
we sat with metro boy! and bernice's favourite hot bus driver who looks like wentworth miller sat right behind us!
and they had all this sign that was scaring me coz i was sitting on the outside end of the seat that wasn't going to be covered like the inner seat was!!
limbs are difficult to replace...haha like that's not gonna scare me...
i'm trying to upload the video i took while heading down the ride..hopefully it gets uploaded! and here it is! have fun watching it!
then we had to walk around this rainforesty area....
metro guy again!
and to head up we had to take this cable car ride!
back at the gift shop..bee and a psychadelic hat!
next stop was the stadium used for the sydney olympics...
next up was homebush bay factory outlet shops..which there was no photos because the bus driver gave us freaking 30mins for more than 20 factory outlet shopss..wthh....angry with wentworth-miller lookalike!
there were shops like cotton on, oroton, nine west, puma and all the surf shops like ripcurl quiksilver...guess what we were back at the bus 20minutes late. and we were the last ones too. bernice and i were running back to the bus like any...like sprinting even!
but the gladiators i wanted to get the day before? it was 50 bucks off at this place wheeee!
well..my dad ran back as well. he said he was 5 minutes late and he was the first one back! ahaha...
and since thursday was late shopping night. we went shopping at last! but we had to rush coz we were back to sydney around 7 and the shops closed at 9!
the lighted-decor church in the day....
queen victoria building again..this time round we got onto the higher floors..
had dinner at myers food hall...wanted to eat kfc but we had something better called Oporto! kfc running out of stock of their chicken was the best thing that happened coz Oporto's chicken is the best tasting chicken ever!!
at the entrance of myers foodhall was just this whole troop of xmas trees!
and after all the shops have closed we went in to woolworths the grocery stall to get all the last minute souvenirs coz the trip was just too packed with activities. so expect loads of chocs everyone!
and on our way back to the hotel with all our groceries we passed by this cupcake shop! the cupcakes were exquisitely decorated and they only cost like 2 bucks a piece! and so it was the end of day 4 which was the end of the trip really coz we were going to the airport the next day. stayed up late yet again with my mum to pack and i watched Whose Line again! it shows at 3am aussie time ((:
p.s. please use IE as firefox doesn't go well with the html of my template and it gets cut off at the end! i used firefox as well though ((:
