Aussie Arvo // ThirstyInMelb #3

So day 3 and 4 combined. Why? Because I just wanted to enjoy myself there and chill without snapping memories every few seconds. Aka I got lazy. Post 3 two weeks later. Why? Same reason as above, the L word hahaha BUT HEYY it's up now!!!

Started the day by visiting Fitzroy Gardens because garden. Hahahaha there isn't much of a reason but we know how pretty the gardens and parks in Melbourne are and this was the only park we planned to visit. Might as well! We literally took pictures at this spot for like 15 minutes before playing on the swings and then just leaving hahaha I mean what else can you do at a park? We didn't bring food with us so picnic was a no go T^T

So we left the park looking for some food and got super upset at Mama Wong, how dare you!  They closed as soon as we entered the place. But I won't let you guys get annoyed at her, this blog is about happy memories hahaha

So walked a little further and decided to just eat at Nandos! Personally, I don't like Nandos. The Peri-Peri sauce doesn't have enough flavour and eating them with the super dry chicken from Singapore uGH but the chicken in Melbourne was pretty juicy so yay!

We actually had to follow a strict schedule that day if we wanted to watch the sunrise from the Eureka Skydeck but we were like ehhhhhhhhhhh (this was us pretty much everyday there, just chill, laid back) and after resting and filling up our tank at Nandos, we walked down to National Gallery of Victoria. I was pretty excited for this because we didn't have much historical European paintings in Singapore. SAM was just modern contemporary stuff... Which personally is kinda too much for a bimbo like me?

I lost my bandana at the museum :( like I don't even know how? The floors were white and bare and spotless but when I realised the bandana wasn't around my neck anymore, and we retraced our steps, we found NOTHING on the floor like whut...

We spent only about an hour there, didn't see much of the other artefacts because other than the paintings, the exhibits we pretty similar to the ones you can find in Singapore. I know, you guys are probably judging like "they're all different, you can't just generalise the exhibits!" but we were short on time if we wanted to catch the sunset from the Eureka Skydeck so we left!

So the Eureka Skydeck was basically like ION Sky or the N-Seoul Tower in Korea. But the sky went on forever, you could probably see into Tasmania or something! We paid a little extra to go for the Edge. It's basically a little glass box where you'll be standing over the city like legit glass floor BUT the glass was kinda dirty and we were like wot for realz pfffft but it was still lovely! 10/10 would recommend going here but maybe not the Edge haha

We stayed till we couldn't see any light from the sky and walked down to the Crown Hotel for a little fire show and headed home yay! It was a nice way to end the night, just sitting by the Yarra River with the cold air.

Day 4! Finally going to meet Zaki and head to his house for dinner! Because Zaki has school that day, we were to meet him a little after noon and my dad over FaceTime the previous night was like "Go explore your neighbourhood!" and so we did. We planned to make use of our kitchen so we decided to look for some halal chicken at the local market near our house and some fresh vegetables maybe.

So we got lost trying to find Zaki in the city but we did manage to find him and Afiq and their Drake filled car after like 15 minutes and went on to Brighton Beach!

Like seriously, look at that city scape from the beach, it's so pretty!!! Like little lego buildings that giants wouldn't want to step on because you know how stepping on Lego sucks and hurts.

Hi Afiq, hi Iffah, what're you smiling at? Your bright futures?

There was an ice-cream truck at the parking lot of Brighton Beach and we wanted to buy some but Afiq was like "Nah man, not worth it, we'll bring you to Cold Rock" and we were like oh okay and he paid for our ice-cream and like omg so nice thanks Afiq!

Zaki was keen on bringing us to DFO and we were like okayyy we'll go wherever you take us haha but no regrets though, I did most of my shopping there aka a pair of Vans slip-ons and a shirt from Cotton On.

Who takes pictures while shopping??? Nobody unless you're like gift shopping and need someone's opinion and you take a picture of a gift and send it on Whatsapp or something but the point is I didn't take any pictures while in DFO! Only took a picture of the sunset from the parking lot which looks glorious! The infinite sky is just so pretty I can't even!

We headed to Zaki's place for dinner where we met Zeff, their gray bengal cat and had amazeballs roast beef and roast potatoes and roast PUMPKIN OMG and mashed potatoes they were all so good and cooked by Zaki's mom

At the end of the night, Zamir brought us to Pakenham Hill to watch the stars but omg it was so freaking cold and cloudy we saw nothing hahaha

Some peeing thing happened and Zamir and Afiq drove us home yay!

It was a super chill 2 days and I loved it there. Zaki's family is just so warm and loving I wish you guys could meet them haha well that's all!

I'm sorry it took this long but I've also been sick these day so I delayed everything.

Hope you guys are still looking forward to the following posts from the #ThirstyInMelb series!

Also here is the link if you wanna see Melbourne in film

xoxo

Squidkid