My trip

Flinder street at night


Hola!It's been almost a week after my trip, and I haven't tell anything in this blog.It's fun, but i'm not satisfy enough with the trip since I joined the tour program.My group consist of 14 ppl, include me an my sist.Started from 25th Dec 04-01 Jan 05.

Day 1. 25 Dec 04.
Mery Christmas.
Had little trouble with my lugage bcoz its handle was stuck!
Bleh! *ga tau apa kalo orang kesusu...akhirnya diobeng, dikasi tali rafia supaya gampang narik*
Arrived at Juanda on 10.30 for catched up flight on 12.
Destination: Bali.
After arrived in Bali, we had lunch in Kuta at Bali Naga. Chinese food. Delicious.
WITA provided a hotel, Jayakarta Hotel while we were waiting for the flight to Sidney.
Just took a rest for few minutes, then me and my sist went to the beach behind Jayakarta. We were waiting for my aunt. She and her husband came then we went to her house then back to the hotel. I had few minutes to explore the hotel w/ Chris before had dinner. Not bad.
Dinner at Garden Intercontinental Palace (if i'm not wrong). Chinese food again. Yummy.
From there we had flight to Sidney by Australian Airlines for about 5.5-6 hours to Melb.

After tried their menu (pasta), red wine at left hand, and hot disguisting milk at right hand (bad mix compotition), I tried to sleep. Not too comfortable position. But lucky me... didn't hav any difficulties to close my eyes...hehehe...but not my sist, though she had very good seats to sleep ^o^When I wake up, and looked up at the window, it's already bright outside. 04.00, but still 00.00 in Sby time.

Sidney airport is soooooooo big...bigger than PTC combained w/ TP, I think.The distance between the gates is so far away. Cold air.We could drank directly from the tab. It's fresh.It has many counters that sell high quality goods.
We flew w/ Quantas to Melb using newest boeing (maybe).It use high technology to facilitate the passangers. There are a mini screen on each of back seats. The remote control has two functions, for menu access and telephone as well (the only line that allowed to be used in the aircraft). Sid-Melb took 1.5 hours. The plane was hopped when it almost landing.

Day 2. 26 Dec 04
Melbourne.
We had lunch at Jasmine Thai, a resto with Yarra river view, near Crown.
Crown has operation hour longer than other plaza/mall at Melb.
You can find hotel, casino and mall there.
I like Melb. Not too crowded, has many green parks.
Ppl can take a walk there, excercise, read, or play with their dog :P
Gulls, pigeons, and other birds everywhere.
We visited parliament of victoria, st. patrick's cathedral (the oldest catholic church in Aust if I'm not wrong..hehe), Captain Cook's house (English man, who discover Australia), and shrine of rememberance.

Got shocking phone call there, coz it's so silent there. Security guy told me to answer it outside (*malu2in ae).I rejected the call. I wouldn't answer it. International roaming bok!!!It's Ony. She was sms me to arrange our date..hehehe.Me and sist had to rush to back to our bus, since we're the latest group member who still left behind =P Lived at Mercure Grand hotel at center of the city.
Dinner-chinese food again at Shark Finn, at china town near my hotel.
We went there on foot.

I was very enjoy new things I got.
The traffic in Oz is so orderly.
Pedestrians have their own traffic light. Just push the button, then wait until the sign turn to green.
I waited for Ony at the lobby.
There is a flat TV screen at the lobby.
I just knew, on the day I arrived in Ozzie, my country (Aceh, and area around it) lost many things and suffered because of tsunami.
Not only Aceh, but Srilanka, Thailand, etc, etc as well.
Oh gosh! How ironic.
Back to the story...at last, she arrived around 8.Very nice to see her again. Her friends drop her to the hotel. Another good news was...she gave me the plug in...hooorayy!! Saving money, AUD 10..hihihi.

3 of us went to Crown to saw the torch, by trem. It began at 9 pm, and showed up for every half an hour, till 10. So lucky i had a chance to meet her.
I can imagine, that I must be very boring if I stuck in hotel doing nothing.
It's my first time rode a trem (Melb is the only city in Aussie that has trems).
AUD 3 keliling2 sampe mblenek. From 6pm to 2 am.
There are various kinds of tickets, depends on what we need.
I don't understand the rules. I'll learn about it when needed :D

Arrived at Crown, but opposite watched the torch, we watch the show inside it.
Ony said that the show only held once a year. It's like puppet show. Nice.
We took a walk when back to the hotel. Off course took pictures.
While Ony shoot the view with her handycam, and I captured it with my canon, a guy distract her sight.
But she just remind him softly.
The guy was so cute and lovely.
He has beautiful friendly eyes, green-blue, i supposed, with ragged blonde hair.
A friend accompanied him.
We had some chit chat for a while.
Nice moment.
Back to hotel around 11. Ony went home w/ last trem.
Very happy to see you again sist! Thx 4 everything.

..to be continued

Pictures sneak peek