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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Perth Day 1 - 2 Sep 2009, Wednesday

Before Departure:









Waiting for Elaine at the airport.

Entertainment on board the plane: a cutie little boy who sat in front of us. Cute!!! We also met him on the plane back to Singapore!

Arrived!!









Waiting for the gate to open. Strange don't know why got gate one.









Yes PERTH, here we come!









Waiting for the gals outside the washroom inside the arrival hall. Take a look at the boy wearing blue sweater (most left hand side). He could not stop crying! I thought maybe he felt uncomfortable but I overheard the parents said he was actually cranky as they woke him up. Well, the best was that the parents did not even do anything to pacify him. Even the officers at the customs were possibly petrified and disturbed enough by his crying such that they allowed them to cut the queue. But tada!! He stopped crying once he passed the customs!! Hmmm...I wondered what the officer told him!! Wahahah.....

Out at the arrival hall:









Quite an old and small airport.










Many many brochures awaited us!!










Say cheese!!


















Bought our first meal of sandwiche here at the airport. Eat eat eat....
Got the car! Rented from Avis and we opted for the maximum insurance payout in the event of accident. So total cost of rental for the entire trip amounted to nearly $500, and that was excluding petrol. We spent about A$100 for the petrol. Fortunately we did not have to pay for overnight parking as there was a free lot just outside our hotel. So we would tour around the area to wait for that lot when we returned and if it was still occupied! :D Save money can! Parking DAMN expensive there siah!!!









Buy 4D hor!! 3-233. 3 in front because got 3 of us ma!! Wahahah...red!! One of my favourite colour! Immediately reminded me of my house!! Ay buy 4D and strike liaoz don't just keep quiet ar!! :P

Arrived at Criterion Hotel!! Situated in the middle of Hay Street.









No no, don't worry, I did not travel with 2 nutcase! They were just 'intrigued' by the retro-ness of the lift. The door closed very slowly, the whole lift would jerk to announce the arrival of our floor, the first time we used the lift the staff even had to manually activate it first. >.<|||












The rooms were lined on 2 sides of the corrider. Very very retro and not very new hotel la! Quite scary actually. Think I might freak out if someone were to suddenly open the door leh.









1 single and 1 double bed. The double bed should be mini queen size (got such a size in the market ma?) ba! Small leh!









But the toilet was clean la! Although the metal clothes hanger only lasted till the moment Elaine hanged her clothes on it. Well well..aiya forgot to take a picture of the 'fallen one'....









Ahem! This is only Part 1 (a)(i) of Jac's lem-bekness!! Wahahahah.....

After that we settled down we decided to tour around the neighbourhood and look out for some places that our colleagues recommended. Also a chance for me to try out driving la!! Since late at night no cars and pedestrians ma!! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.............have not driven a car for the last 6 years wor!! *I got my license in 2003!* Oh ho! We survived my driving for that night!! Jac took some pictures of me but I have not gotten from her yet. Must let me censor first then pick nice onces to post!

















After that we returned to the hotel to zonk out. We needed to 养足精神 to drive out to Harvey Dam the next morning!! Yoo-hoo...farm stay!!

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