I saw snow!!

We went to Sovereign Hill, Ballarat yesterday. Rented a Hyundai Sonata and Ryan was our driver for the day (thanks Ryan!). Thanks to Calvin who read the maps, thanks to me who brought chocolates (hehe), thanks to Yun Ying who kept our driver company, thanks to Siaw Tze for letting us tease her =P

It was really cold in the morning. It got colder when we were reaching Ballarat, the temperature was about -2 to 4 Celsius! And guess what, we saw snow on the way! We were so excited that we stopped for a few minutes to take pictures despite the freezing cold wind and us shivering...I forgot to bring my gloves! My hands were as cold as ice, couldn't really feel anything with my hands because of the decreased sensitivity =.=

This is how snow looks like if you look at it closely - does it remind you of ais kacang?

We went on and went to have a look around Kryal Castle before entering Ballarat. There was also snow around the castle! And it's sooooooooooo COLD!!!

Like those scenes you see in movies...

In front of Kryal Castle...

with my guards...

We didn't enter the castle coz the ticket was a bit expensive, besides, our main destination of the trip was Sovereign Hill. We continued our journey and reached Ballarat city centre. We had lunch at Pizza Hut. It's my first time eating at Pizza Hut in Australia. It was quite a disaapointment when we found out that there was no mushroom soup (as you would expect when you go to any Pizza Hut outlet in Malaysia)...

After lunch - Sovereign Hill! It's sort of like a gold mining village...

I think this is the only group pic with all of us together =)

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Traditional Chinese shop

We saw a horse...

We saw a donkey too

Horse carriage!

Yeah we went to New York =P

In front of the 'gold mining tower'?

And it started snowing!! But this time it's artificial snow LOL

We played bowling!

Yeah, I made it! Only 3 left standing!!

ST found another type of gold...

With our car!

We went to the Gold Museum which is just opposite Sovereign Hill after that, then headed back to city centre to have dinner of charcoal chicken. Bought a bit of stuff at Coles, then went back to Sovereign Hill to watch the Blood on the Southern Cross show. No cameras were allowed, so no pictures...it's a spectacular sound and light effects show but I think it's kinda a bit long (about 45 minutes) that most of us nearly fell asleep!

It's 8pm after the show. Ryan drove us back to Clayton...we were concentrating on the speed limit signs on the side of the highway and freeway (110 km/h for a whil, then 90km/h, then 100km/h, then back to 110km/h, then 80km/h etc...) Why did it have to change so frequently on a highway/freeway? I wonder.

It's much warmer in Clayton =)