Melbourne Day 3-5

Combining day 3-5 because I realised that on day 4, I only took 3 photos and on day 5, zero. Haha anyway, on day 3, Derrick took a coach from Sydney to Melbourne to join Nikki and I :)

Did you know that a tram weighs as much as thirty rhinos?
Yup so its like thirty rhinos on a skateboard.

Docklands

Pigs

Breakfast for lunch again!
This is mine, the poached eggs were weird and I didn't like that there were no greens on the plate.

OMG LOOKS SO GOOD RIGHT?
Nikki's toast, poached eggs, salmon with hollandaise sauce

Derrick's big breakfast

We did some shopping at DFO @ Docklands. Not much there though, plus you gotta take a tram. Our tram back to the city broke down halfway so we walked alot...

Went to Degraves again for coffee :)

Later that night, Derrick's friend who lives in Melb brought us to St. Kilda for dinner. Went to a nice restaurant called Sapore, and I couldn't understand anything on the menu. Honestly.

Mashed potato
Told Nikki they look like durians

Ordered a gnocchi, which is some dough-like dumpling.
Had a three-cheese sauce over it yum!

That night after dinner, we checked out the beach at St. Kilda for like 5 minutes and then went to a bar, where I tried my first shot of tequila. Coupled with a mojito, I felt real sleepy after that haha I think I don't really like alcohol bleugh... I went back to the hotel to skype Jem and the rest went out for more drinks, it was a fun night overall :)

The next morning, Nikki and I split up - Derrick and Nikki drove to Great Ocean Road and I went to meet Juls! :) That Saturday was a real nice day, good weather + warmer than usual, spent the day walking around Brunswick and Smith, dropping into shops and a market, and just hanging out.

A wonderful wonderful lemon tart.
Really wonderful!
Juls got a pear one I think and it was delicious too. Esp with that cream!

A pic along Brunswick. I really didn't take many photos :/

It was really nice catching up with Juls + hearing about how life is in Melbourne. And it was nice filling her in on recent church happenings and stuff :) Did the most shopping on this day too I think - notebooks, tea (at a really nice shop, T2) and clothes, yay!

Had Vietnamese for dinner, a delightful bowl of beef and noodles

I stayed with Juls on Saturday night. The most coincidental thing was that Nikki and Derrick's hostel for the last night, happened to be straight (like really straight) across the road from Juls' apartment :O Really unplanned! So on Saturday night, I ran across the road in my pajamas to say goodbye to Nikki :( They drove back to Sydney on Sunday.. I'll miss you Nikki!! Till November I guess!

On Sunday morning, I went to Planetshakers City Church on Sunday with Juls, Jon and Beatrice. I haven't seen Beatrice in years, the last time was probably in Sec 2 or something. We talked about Mr Teh haha our beloved bald science teacher. Anyway I got a surprise when I found out Beatrice is Jon's sister hehe small world.

The experience at the church was eye-opening, different from Methodist churches. Really quite different, like halfway thru the sermon, if the speaker made a compelling point, people would stand up and clap hehe

Had lunch at Ying Thai 2, Kevin's very strong recommendation and it was really good - especially the green curry! Lygon street really has a lot of good food :) After lunch, Jon drove us to get ice-cream at Brunswick which was really yummy and soon, I was at the airport saying byebye to Juls and Jon, my trip was over :( :( :(

I really wished I had more time in Melbourne, I hadn't tried a lot of food on Kevin's list and been to many places. Next time! Jem says we'll go together haha :) And maybe then Kevin would be staying in Melb just to hold on to his PR and we'll all hang out. Wow, that'll be awesome :)