We arrived at Gold Coast, Queensland on Scoot's inaugural flight with Barberella and Pornsak Sukumvit from The Noose. And we were welcomed by the Water Salute Ceremony whereby Barry the plane scoot under plumes of water expelled by lined up fire-fighting vehicles. That was to mark Scoot's first flight to the Gold Coast Airport and it was a really fresh experience. When we touched down lots and lots of media were there, noting and photographing, noting and photagraphing.
We checked in at our apartment and were greeted with this splendid view. I almost couldn't believe my eyes and what I've got in return for the price we paid.
On the second night, we went for a night walk down to Surfer's Paradise Beach. It was freezing winter. I brought 4 sets of clothes for 4 separate days, but I layered ALL of them over each other on day2. That exhausted almost all the clothes I brought, which also means I have to shop! Yay! So earlier that day we went to Harbourtown where all the factory outlets are localized at, none of us went back empty handed. Google says it is a must-go, I feel it is slightly overrated.
On day3 we went on a road trip to Brisbane, drove for what seemed like forever, and arrived at Brisbane finally after forever-hour. Finally arrived at the correct Queen Street after one or two Queen Streets.
Brisbane was like our Marina Bay Sands, with street performers. Did some shopping and had our steak there. Did I forget to mention that Allison and Junkai had steak almost everyday?
On day 4 we drove up north to Currumbin, to see polar bears. Did I say polar? Koala i mean.
The sky looked lovely every single day. The photo says it, and bear in mind there is no filter to this photo.
We arrived at the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary. That's Junkai, Allison and Jolene with our car, Victoria. They were my pals for this trip, cool stuffs here.
Jolene and I having fun with the koala ears.
Koalas are crazily adorable creatures. They don't need to drink, nor do they have a tail. Now you know...
That's us hopping onto the tram, or 'train' as my friends called it. haha.
Look who we met? Hedwig!
It took leave from Hogwarts, which is also secretly my school. Don't worry, it wouldn't tell Dumbledore.
We went into the Kangaroos' enclosure. They share it with the Emus but who cares about the Emus, I heard they poke people's heads with their beak, or mouth, or beak.
Kangaroo feeding was fun. It felt like Wangwang or Cuecue eating from my palm. Nothing special except that they're kangaroos. My dogs could hop too.
Ally was busy making friends.
Had to snap the cute angmoh toddlers playing with young kangaroos.
This handsome dude here, he asked for my number.
Haha kidding but he was flirting with my camera.
And the much awaited photo session with PJ the koala! We paid a preposterous amount for those photos we have with it. But looking at this, just looking at this.... how can you not want to be in my place? You're right, as seen here we're already in love thanks.
This lorikeet had the audacity to mess with my hair! How can it be so stupid, the yummy thing is just right in front of me, between my hands and it made a bad landing. Learn from your friend, buddy.
Everyone around us had platefuls of lorikeets, but 2's about the most we had. That's fine by me because a flock scares hell out of me although they make pretty pictures.
On day 5 we drove to a mall in Palm Beach and did our last minute shopping. To my horror most of the shops there were either closed or closing at around 4pm? We decided to make our own dinner so we went to get groceries.
Back in our apartment I set up the ambience in our balcony. Looks pretty yes?
Hahaha But it was freezing!!!
Ally cooked the salmon, Jolene the vege, Junkai the steak and me the eggy. Everything tasted like mixed herbs that night, because we bought only one seasoning lol.
Really hate to say goodbye to Aussie. The worst part of our departure was the fact that our 8hour flight got delayed by 6hours due to engineering faults. Which made the 14 hours dreadful and tormenting.
Where is my travel voucher, dear Scoot?
I was really glad when Ad gave me a bundle of letters at the airport before I left Singapore. It looked familiar. I had a bundle too when I was on an overseas CIP trip to Chiang Rai, so these became my daily feed in Aussie every morning. *Starstruck*
Ending off the post with my favourite part of his letters where he coincidentally punched a hole right smack onto the smiley he drew. That's a bingo my dear.
