Friday, May 18, 2007
Melbourne 2007
It was 6th April 2007, on a Friday evening. We headed for Changi Airport, in anticipation of a rather exciting family and wedding trip to Melbourne.
Caught in action: Mum wheeling Shawn&Wency's 'wedding present' while dad pointed us the way to the boarding gate. There's actually a story behind the 'wedding present' (on mum's trolley) .
After having our passports checked, we headed for the departure lounge and dad realised that the 'wedding present' had gone missing! We looked around frantically and searched the lounge, including the toilet that mum's just been in. Its not till minutes later that we thought we might have left it outside the departure gates! Hence we ran back and saw through the glass, that the 'wedding present' had indeed been left behind on a trolley! At this point we had to explain to the officials about retrieving this stranded 'wedding present' which they did, by giving us a special pass to go out and back in again. This finally brought light to the case of the mysteriously stranded 'wedding present' which for the time it had been stranded, had garnered full attention from several CCTV-cameras and airport security who were discussing the dubious contents on an unattended trolley. What a funny scene to think if the SWOT team were called down to uncover some dubious contents - only to find in that carefully wrapped 'wedding present' - contained an innocent box-set of micro-waveable cooking dishes! huhuh ...
[Flight to Melbourne was only 7 hours but we did not get to sit together because we got our tickets seperately and did not check-in online 48 hours before. Something we've now learnt to do on future trips.]
Melbourne greeted us with the lovely summer weather. We met Shawn at the airport who drove us back to the Docklands family service apartment where we rented on the 15th floor for a week. It wasn't all that cheap but it was a lovely location and the apt was very comfortable and well-furnished. It had 2 bedrooms and 2 good size bathrooms. It had a great view of the Docklands harbour, looking over part of the city. The kitchenette was also fabulous enough for my mother to get her cooking done.
A walk along the docks ...
Melbourne's evening skyline
TOUR around Melbourne
Melbourne city is so square on the map that I find it impossible for anyone to get lost in the city. There's the famous brown circle-line train that takes tourists into the city free of charge and runs a commentary at every stop. So we hopped off randomly at Kings Street and ended up at the Melbourne Aquarium.
Conversation with fishes :
The weird and the colorful of Australia's underwater world ...
Walk along Flinder's Street next to the Yarra River -
look out for street-art performances and some classic poses ...
NEXT STOP - National Gallery of Victoria (St Kilda)
A white-blocs lego-building competition in the museum hall ...
Crowded at Federation Square!
Cool white contemporary wild-life ....
Caught in action: Mum wheeling Shawn&Wency's 'wedding present' while dad pointed us the way to the boarding gate. There's actually a story behind the 'wedding present' (on mum's trolley) .After having our passports checked, we headed for the departure lounge and dad realised that the 'wedding present' had gone missing! We looked around frantically and searched the lounge, including the toilet that mum's just been in. Its not till minutes later that we thought we might have left it outside the departure gates! Hence we ran back and saw through the glass, that the 'wedding present' had indeed been left behind on a trolley! At this point we had to explain to the officials about retrieving this stranded 'wedding present' which they did, by giving us a special pass to go out and back in again. This finally brought light to the case of the mysteriously stranded 'wedding present' which for the time it had been stranded, had garnered full attention from several CCTV-cameras and airport security who were discussing the dubious contents on an unattended trolley. What a funny scene to think if the SWOT team were called down to uncover some dubious contents - only to find in that carefully wrapped 'wedding present' - contained an innocent box-set of micro-waveable cooking dishes! huhuh ...
[Flight to Melbourne was only 7 hours but we did not get to sit together because we got our tickets seperately and did not check-in online 48 hours before. Something we've now learnt to do on future trips.]
Melbourne greeted us with the lovely summer weather. We met Shawn at the airport who drove us back to the Docklands family service apartment where we rented on the 15th floor for a week. It wasn't all that cheap but it was a lovely location and the apt was very comfortable and well-furnished. It had 2 bedrooms and 2 good size bathrooms. It had a great view of the Docklands harbour, looking over part of the city. The kitchenette was also fabulous enough for my mother to get her cooking done.
A walk along the docks ...
Melbourne's evening skyline
TOUR around Melbourne
Melbourne city is so square on the map that I find it impossible for anyone to get lost in the city. There's the famous brown circle-line train that takes tourists into the city free of charge and runs a commentary at every stop. So we hopped off randomly at Kings Street and ended up at the Melbourne Aquarium.
Conversation with fishes :
The weird and the colorful of Australia's underwater world ...
Walk along Flinder's Street next to the Yarra River -
look out for street-art performances and some classic poses ...
NEXT STOP - National Gallery of Victoria (St Kilda)
A white-blocs lego-building competition in the museum hall ...
Crowded at Federation Square!
Cool white contemporary wild-life ....
# posted by Morgan & mummy @ 12:01 pm 
