An Aus-some Holiday!

We have just returned from a fabulous 7D6N holiday in Melbourne, Australia. I had no problem waking up as usual at 7am to go to school today although we came back rather late in the evening yesterday.

Daddy and mummy actually planned this trip (booked our air tickets) early this year, taking advantage of the long Merdeka-Raya holidays to minimize taking annual leaves (for daddy) and skipping school (for me).

Here's a summary of our holiday:

- We stayed in Mei yi-yi's (mummy's cousin) warm and cosy house throughout our stay in Melbourne and we were given first class hospitality by Mei yi-yi and her family (Uncle David and cousins Nathan & Alyssa).  

- The weather was exceptionally good... no rain (only light drizzle in Philip Island) and no chilly winds with temperatures soaring as high as 20C in the day, and dipping to as low as 5C at night/early morning. We arrived on the very first day of spring!

- We had 2 family gatherings with relatives living in Melbourne and feasted to our hearts' content.

- We enjoyed visiting places of interest in and around Melbourne, thanks to Mei yi-yi and Aunty Becky (also mummy's cousin) who tirelessly drove us around. 

- Mummy and daddy brought along 2 cameras with them and snapped a combined total of more than 2000 photos in this whole trip.

- This was my longest holiday so far (in terms of duration) and it was also my first long-haul flight. 

- I loved and enjoyed this trip so much that I cried on the morning of our departure. I missed playing with my cousins the most. 

Some photos of our flight on the first day...

My very first time on board Air Asia (but my 3rd flying experience)

Not as bad as we had anticipated... the seats were quite comfortable after all

View from the plane... flying over the exotic island of Bali and that's the volcanic mountain that the captain told us to look out for

Daddy rented a PSP to keep me occupied but guess who ended up hogging it? Daddy, of course haha!

My kiddy meal. Frankly speaking, the meals on AA were pathetic and meagre. They even ran out of hot meals (except for instant cup noodles that we did not want to eat). With only one allocated meal each (portion was tiny!), poor us flew 7.5 hours in hunger and snacked only on some biscuits and fruits that we brought from home :(

We landed in Melbourne airport at 11.30pm... we did nothing on the first day but went home to eat and sleep

Famished! Luckily Mei yiyi already cooked us supper... delicious fried noodles and a pot of hot soup to fill up our empty tummies and warm us up just before bedtime. 

To be continued...