term break.
friday morning trip to gold coast was fantastic. started with a drive to sydney, sleeping over at julian's before catching the 8am flight to gold coast. as all flights go with qantas and jetstar, it was delayed. where's the surprise in that? eventually reached gold coast at 10 plus, catching a coach to the service apartment where i was to share with 5 other friends.
bummed around surfers paradise till rena and marc were done with their diving trip before meeting up with them at harbortown, this pseudo-factory outlet place in the suburbs. had a seriously huge dinner in the form of huge pizza slices and bubble tea before making my way back to meet up with the rest of the gang.
went to movieworld the next day, took all the rides (i think) save for the batwing one and i must say, it was a tad disappointing. superman wasn't as fast as i remembered, lethal weapon just gave me a headache. the shrek 4d show was interesting and that's as much as it goes. the parade was not as spectacular as the disney ones but hey, it was all good.
dinner was to be at a seafood place but the service was so bad (the manager actually lost her temper at those of us in the queue) so we ended up eating at santino's instead. probably wasn't as good as the one in melbourne but the service more than made up for it.
it rained the whole day on monday so we ended up shopping at harbortown and pushing the visit to dreamworld a day later. (un)fortunately i didn't have anything to buy due to a lack of options and size. we headed to the marriot courtyard for seafood platter but after 30 minutes of waiting, was told that they had run out of seafood and the manager offered to make a reservation for us the next day together with complimentary white wine.
with that, we crossed the road and had a spectacular spanish dinner. it was amazing especially given that the prices were very reasonable. zongyao and i headed to the gun range and fired of 50 rounds of .45 calibre before joining the girls for an insanely noisy time at the arcade (deal or no deal anyone?).
so, dreamworld on tuesday and i happened to wake up with a fever. i attribute it to the pizzas and the amount of times i walked in the rain. in any case, took a few rides which were very tame, even managing to have conversations with zongyao on a couple of them, caught yawning in the photos and basically not really having fun on the rides. hah! the highlight of the day was perhaps the seafood platter at the marriot. it did not disappoint. i never ate so much seafood all at once, prawns, crabs, calamari, baked rice and the whole works. didn't even have space for dessert after that.
headed off to hard rock cafe to meet up with maryann after a long long time. drove out to the harbour end called "the spit" with a couple of her friends before returning back to the service apartment to pack up.
left the apartment at 4.20am for the aiport. this time round, the flight was delayed for a good 2 hours plus. the reason? a crew member reported in sick at the last minute and a replacement had to drive down from north brisbane. my goodness. talk about embarrasing.
all in all, it was still a good trip. time to hit the books. fark!
bummed around surfers paradise till rena and marc were done with their diving trip before meeting up with them at harbortown, this pseudo-factory outlet place in the suburbs. had a seriously huge dinner in the form of huge pizza slices and bubble tea before making my way back to meet up with the rest of the gang.
went to movieworld the next day, took all the rides (i think) save for the batwing one and i must say, it was a tad disappointing. superman wasn't as fast as i remembered, lethal weapon just gave me a headache. the shrek 4d show was interesting and that's as much as it goes. the parade was not as spectacular as the disney ones but hey, it was all good.
dinner was to be at a seafood place but the service was so bad (the manager actually lost her temper at those of us in the queue) so we ended up eating at santino's instead. probably wasn't as good as the one in melbourne but the service more than made up for it.
it rained the whole day on monday so we ended up shopping at harbortown and pushing the visit to dreamworld a day later. (un)fortunately i didn't have anything to buy due to a lack of options and size. we headed to the marriot courtyard for seafood platter but after 30 minutes of waiting, was told that they had run out of seafood and the manager offered to make a reservation for us the next day together with complimentary white wine.
with that, we crossed the road and had a spectacular spanish dinner. it was amazing especially given that the prices were very reasonable. zongyao and i headed to the gun range and fired of 50 rounds of .45 calibre before joining the girls for an insanely noisy time at the arcade (deal or no deal anyone?).
so, dreamworld on tuesday and i happened to wake up with a fever. i attribute it to the pizzas and the amount of times i walked in the rain. in any case, took a few rides which were very tame, even managing to have conversations with zongyao on a couple of them, caught yawning in the photos and basically not really having fun on the rides. hah! the highlight of the day was perhaps the seafood platter at the marriot. it did not disappoint. i never ate so much seafood all at once, prawns, crabs, calamari, baked rice and the whole works. didn't even have space for dessert after that.
headed off to hard rock cafe to meet up with maryann after a long long time. drove out to the harbour end called "the spit" with a couple of her friends before returning back to the service apartment to pack up.
left the apartment at 4.20am for the aiport. this time round, the flight was delayed for a good 2 hours plus. the reason? a crew member reported in sick at the last minute and a replacement had to drive down from north brisbane. my goodness. talk about embarrasing.
all in all, it was still a good trip. time to hit the books. fark!
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