Chasing Light: Awesome Australia Adventure 2013

Awesome Australia Adventure AAA

10th Feb 2013-17th Feb 2013

Day 1:

Pre-departure: On Chu xi, we had reunion dinner at Clementi. Our plan was to bring HL's luggage back to my hse and pack everything tgt. So we board a cab and halfway thru the journey, there was a loud bang. So we tot a stone hit the car. But there was another continuous noise and slowly the driver move from lane 1 to the RS. Yes, tyre "pong zek" liao! Right in the middle of PIE. The taxi uncle tried to change the tyre but i STOP him from doing so. And he manage to get a cab for us, flag down at the middle of PIE.

We left for Melbourne on the first day of CNY. Our flight was1025pm. We reach there around 830pm to get our seats sorted out since Emirate mess up the sitting arrangement. Lucky enough we manage to get to sit tgt, but away from Alv &Lin.

First dinner of the yr- Chicken Rendang fr Coffee & Toast while we wait for them to arrive and yes it's the start of our trip! =D
7 hr+ flight, night flight is gd for slping but I spend half the time watching the inflight entertainment. Can't really slp as the person on my right is super big size and he took the right side hand rest :s

Melbourne was pretty cooling early in the morning, airport wasn't too crowded. Custom in melb seems to be less strict than in NZ. This time rd we didn't get stop for soiled hiking shoes :x.

We got a mini bus cab which is super ex, from airport to the discoverycampervan pick up place. :(

I was really excited to see these big vehicles again. This time round, the 6 berth baby is bigger than our 2 berth in NZ. But SIAN our vehicle got delayed and we can only pick up until very very late, like 4pm. >:(

So we went for lunch and grocery shopping at nearby to save some time. We also catch up some lost slp. So sad for the time wasted :/

First meal in Aust, Roast Chicken and lotsa chips.

Finally at 4pm the vehicle is here and we were re-excited again. Wanted to ask the CS guy to take a pic of us but he took a pic WITH us instead. LOL.

Hop and we head to the first destination-Buy a GPS since their GPS all rented out. o.O

Good thing abt summer is sun set very late so at ard 8pm it's still bright, when we reach our first destination at Mansfield.

Yea Holiday park was not very big but seems very cosy. We had a good bath after a long nite and day. First dinner of the day of cos will be at our cozy house! THe guys were pretty(very) excited about the awning lol...There is UV rays at night too.