A lot of australian companies close for business from 25th Dec to 1 Jan.. much like many family businesses in Spore during the CNY period. So Ed had to take leave for the remaining working days after christmas till New Year.
On Christmas Day, everything was closed.. so we decided to go to the beach.. As usual, Ben had lotsa fun ( don't you envy his lifestyle? Eat sleep play and throw tantrum!). We went the the usual spot, cause the playground was just beside it! haaha. Here are some photos.
On Boxing Day, we did the Singaporean's most preferred exercise - shopping. Got some work shirts for Ed and took the opportunity to get new kitchen ware(steeply discounted)! heh heh. Don't we all love bargains!
Today we went to take the Puffing Billy train. Getting there was an adventure of sorts.. Our 'driver' (I shant name him) didnt check the map and assumed it was near the trout farm. And so we ended up at the Emerald stop for Puffing Billy instead of the Belgrave station. (where the train ride starts) And so we only took the Puffing Billy train one way for 15mins to the Emerald Lakeside stop haaha. And that our only trip on Puffing Billy -all but only 15 mins! Luckily it was quite full so the conductor didnt bother to come to collect payment.. and we had a free ride! We got off at the Lakside and had our picnic lunch there.
From Emerald, we drove to Frankston Beach. Cos we heard that the sand sculpting exhibition was there.. we saw it on tv. Wanted to go there to take pictures of it with the new polarizing filter that we bought for the camera over the weekend... Figured that since we already drove to Danedongs, might as well go to Frankston from there. So we went! And well worth it. The beach was really nice. And there were lots of people there enjoying the beautiful conditions.. Some pictures of the beach :
The dinosaur sand sculptures :
They look nice... but the entry fee was $10 per adult! Kar-lang hor? haha. Somemore Ben was quite restless, can see cannot touch. So we ended up going in and taking all the photos we could and then getting out. Didnt have the luxury of stopping and reading the descriptions of the different dinos.. Anyhow.. thankfully we managed to get some nice photos. And the most important thing - test and see the colours of the photos when taken with the filter. haha. The silly things we do for photos! :O
We left the sand sculpting area and let Ben run along the open areas and play. Then we ate at the restaurant right on the beach. Its name was Sofia Restaurant. They have the most GINORMOUS portions! We ordered an entree sized garlic prawn and a large pizza. And ended up having to ta-bau half of the pizza home! haha. This restaurant was also featured in the news recently about their enormous sized portions... haha.
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