everyday is [literally] a new adventure!

first: a photo of e ceiling of crown's atrium.. e lights are so pretty! =) merry christmas! e 8 of us spent christmas having a picnic lunch @ brighton beach, and planned to get back by 5 or 6 to start cooking our humongous christmas dinner. sounds pretty unadventurous eh? well it really should have been.

except that the state of victioria provides free public transport on christmas day. which would have been a good thing, if they did not also screw up all e bus, train and tram timings, routes, and frequencies! *roarrrr~* we managed to get there witout a problem, besides a change of bus, cos 250 was starting its journey from e middle of its normal route. getting home was another story altogether.

when we reached, it was FREEZING cold! 7 of us were like "lets go home now!" (well even before we reached it was already cold, but e seabreezes are awfully terribly bbbrrrr) lunch went well, and hongrui bravely went into e water! that girl is really cold-resistant. suet, mx, tlp and papa fell asleep on e towels, and mx got baked black in that short ten mins. there were really obvious lines on her arms, and e girls forced her to bake for another 10 mins to try and even out e tan.

1 sydnian, 3 melbies, and 4 perthians:

seagulls enjoying the seabreeze - they're just hovering/gliding with their wings spread, like little kites:
everyone's busy taking photos:

is tlp stronger than 2 houses?

the houses are so bright and cheery:

ok so tlp is not stronger than 2 houses - she is stronger than a painted kangaroo though!
so anyway, after lunch we took many many many pics! and continued walking down down down, looking for a tram/bus/something to get us back to e city. well we walked for about 45mins all e way down to north brighton, took e train back to e city, 2 hours past schedule. when we got back to e city, we spent another 20mins waiting for e bus, only to discover that there was NO bus! goshhhh...

off topic: there was a super cute pretty boy cocker/cavaliar cross @ e bus stop! had fun petting e dog, who had a little present hanging from his collar =) his owner was pretty friendly too, and this other passerby was like: dogs always help to attract girls, and that mr dog-owner was doing quite well (there were 3 of us fussing over e dog). mr dog-owner was so obviously in love with and affectionate towards his dog, and mr half-cocker really behaves like angel - climbing onto his owner's lap and sitting there like a happy grown-up huge puppy and demanding kisses.
i'm coming back soon my dear angel-dog!

ok so back to e topic. we decided to take e tram instead, only to see a dash in e column announing e arrival of e next tram, and thought tt e darn tram was cancelled too. waited awhile, then saw that it was still in service after all, then decided to have dinner in e city - we were all too tired, and it was too late to cook anyway. ate at chinatown, took e tram back, and had to walk all e way back in e cold, in e (nearly) middle of e night from e tramstop outside macs @ latrobe, which took us another 45ish mins. wanted to call for cabs, but couldnt get through.

what a sight we must have been - 8 girls trudging along in one file along e road. managed to make it back safely and happily, and konked out til 11 today, like a zhu. oh well, adventures are tiring!

hehe and more pics from williamstown:

papa and tlp @ e train station, finally in shelter after being buffeted by e wind for 20 mins. look @ e state of our hair! tlp's hair clip got blown off in e end, despite its determination to hang on for dear life for 15 mins. retraced the route and managed to find it though=)

5mins later, on e train, after tiding up. our hair was suddenly much softer. must be e sea minerals and what nots.. mother nature's spa treatment.. good stuff!
and my $1.50 icecream and a christmas tree once again!

hehe and some zi lian photos, been nagged at by papa for e necklines.. whoops~

@ flinders, with e (are they supposed to be famous?) clocks: outside T2 @ chadstone... the wallpaper is so pretty!
@ crown:
outside crown - e yarra river and mel city's skyline
and in crown again

and that's it!