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Saturday, June 6, 2009

blue mts - wentworth falls

this is a super outdated post... at least by the standard posting rates for this year.. hehe.. much more efficient this year as compared to the last... avg 3 months delay last year.. hahah... so here are some photos of the wentworth falls in the blue mountains area....

the nice autumn feel in the blue mts area.... on our way to the wentworth falls... we jus randomli stopped by to take some photos....

the jamison valley....

Upper Wentworth Falls, the first section of Wentworth Falls waterfalls near the town of the same name... The falls are in two drops, with Lower Wentworth Falls below....

took the under-rock path to wentworth falls...was quite a bit of walk... n the fact that it was drizzling n muddy didnt help much....

the fletcher point lookout.....

my favourite waterfall....

an ice-cream treat after we finised the walk!!

Sunday, May 24, 2009

sydney skyline at night

my favourite spot for the nice sydney skyline and sydney opera house... mrs macquarie chair... a wonderful spot for avid photographers.... simpy beautiful views from the "chair".....

the city skyline....

opera house and harbour bridge....

trip to the art musuem

i've alwaz drive past or walk past the NSW art gallery.... and everitime i past it, i will be telling myself that i wanna go in one day.... and after almost close to 2 years in sydney, i finalli made my first trip there....

the entrance of the art gallery of new south wales....

finalli a nice picture after many failed attempts of getting both xiji n mi in the picture....

the first exhibit i saw... an overturn car...

some artistic display??? dun realli noe wat this is... but nice layout nevertheless... hehe...

oppsssiieee... one of the statute fell and smashed his head.... this is one of my favourite art piece....

reflections... the focus is actualli the painting in the reflection.....

this is not an art piece... saw a full arch of rainbow while touring the art gallery... but too bad cant get the whole arch in....

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Easter Long Weekend

easter was spent in the eastern part of Oz.... goldcoast, brisbane and byron bay (the eastern most point in oz)....

took a super early 5am flight on Sat morning to Brisbane... n den drove for another hour to Gold Coast.... we made in just in time for the opening of Movie World... And didnt know Movie World is still so popular after being around for so long.... there was a bit of queue though we reached there at 10am sharp - which is the theme park's opening hours....

here's a pix at the main drive-in entrance...

some pictures inside Movie World.... Shrek, Charlie and the Choc Factory, Harry Potter, Warner Bros, Scooby Doo.... some of the more popular stores and rides......

pictures of us in the theme park....

insider the Shrek shop.... rows and rows of gingerbread man... so cute... was tempted to get one.... mi n zijia trying to be "Puss-in-boots"... zijia is doing quite a good job... but mi, having under-developed facial muscles cant realli do it all that well.. hehe....

harry potter shop... the harry potter soft toys look quite "chiong".... not cute at all...

alwaz remembered Movie World having lots of cartoon characters walking around and posing with little kids... that's my impression when i went about 10 years ago... things have certainly changed... cant seem to find any more of those cartoon characters... tazzie devil and tweety bird were the onli 2 that we managed to catch... n there's this lonely marilyn monroe walking around with NO crowd at all... poor her... guess kids nowadaes dun realli know who she is....

pictures of some roller coasters that we took.. the "road-runner" and "superman".... the "road-runner" roller coaster was just a pre-empt to the highlight --> "superman" ride... we actualli took the "road-runner" in the kids corner... hahaha... 3 weak-hearted old ladies... we were so scared when we were waiting for the "superman".... tummy-ache n toilet needs were surfacing continuously as we were waiting for our turn for the ride... hahha... check out how scaree it looks from the photos below.... the super steep downturn was the "highlight" of the trip....

day 2 was spent watching sunrise at byron bay --> the eastern most point of oz... but from the pictures below, u can see how cloudy it was... didnt catch much of a sunrise... but nevertheless byron bay was a nice lookout with a lighthouse....