Panic..

Its coming to the end of my hols soon, sob.

Went to Caversham Wildlife Park today , got upclose and personal with kangeroos/koalas/sheeps/cows, and some other animals like pigs, camels and various bird species. Went back to Swan Valley's Chocolate Co, to get more chocolates and then to Kings Park to admire the night view of Perth City.

Yesterday, as YQ was unable to join us, we trawled the Hay Street shopping street, then down to the Swan Tower and harbour, and then took a bus to William Street , which is somesort like their Chinatown. Visted Fremantle night market which closes at 8pm as well. Pretty proud of myself, able to figure out how to take the public transport whilst with 2 grandparents and a baby in tow, ha! There are actually 3 bus routes, called the CAT bus, which is free. Runs through the city area. Thought S'pore should have such bus service as well, especially for the tourists. We took the blue one this time round, will try out the other 2 sometime next week. Realized the pubs are especially crowded on fri evenings/nights, and I'm talking about timings at 5pm and the drinking holes were completely full.

Thursday- we wanted to go Hillary Harbour, but due to the tyre running flat, we had to take sometime out to change it, and change of plans to the Kangeroo Park instead. Its just a park by the Swan River, where kangeroos roam, but maybe wrong timing or something, we did not see a single one around, but nice view. Tim Sum at very nice restaurant called Golden Crystal or something, havent eaten such good tim sum for a long time. Thursday nights are late night shopping days in Perth,so we dropped by a suburban shopping centre- Garden City- with Silvia.

Wednesday- TQ was unable to join us as well, so we explored murray/hay streets ourselves. Found 1 very nice Jap cafe which serves cheap and good Jap food. Had dinner at Han's cafe (which is different from the Hans in S'pore), and the Chinese food there was very good and very close to Singapore taste, unlike the previous places we have been to.


Just 2 very embarassing episodes for the last few days.

1 was today, during the farm live show. They were demostrating how to crack a whip (for the purpose of rounding up the sheeps) . The 'cracks' demostrated were loud and sharp, even shocked the adults. Then they got someone from the audience to try out the whip, but his 1st attempt was unsuccessful, rendering a very deflated 'crack'. It was at this point that JX decided to wail at the top of her voice. So of course everyone laughed. Worse part was she decided not to stop , and since i was very far from the exit, i thought i shall just live with the embarassment and continue to pacify her while the guy continued to swing the whip. The last attempt by the man to crack the whip was successful, but it sent the kid in front of me wailing as well. The mum immediately carried her out of the show, whilst JX was still bailing away. Darn it , i had no choice but to follow suit and exited as well. Kids, it can be embarassing if not handled with care.

2 was when our car tyre was punctured. We only realized something was wrong with the car when we were out of the carpark, when the car was clinging and clanging away. We decided to make our way to the car rental place instead of attempting to change the tyre ourselves. But whilst rolling the car there at 30km/hr, we had very well-meaning people running up to us to inform us the tyre was flat, and we had to embarassingly wind down the windows to revert we are aware... and i saw ppl pointing at our flattened tyre on the streets. bleh.