Holiday in Adelaide!

I spent my second half of my Easter break in Adelaide! Flew there together with Li Ping, met old friends, made new friends as well =)

We stayed at Chien's place in the city. We arrived in Adelaide in the late morning on 15th (Wednesday) and had lunch at an Italian restaurant called Scoozi. Doreen called Chien Yen to join us for lunch...I haven't met her ever since I left INTEC!!

*Biew Chien*Chien Yen*me*Li Ping*

We toured around the city of Adelaide for the day...places we visited included Rundle Mall, University of Adelaide, University of South Australia (UniSA), the State Library, some parks (Torrens river?); and we took some pictures in front of the South Australia Museum and Parliament as well.

One of the 4 famous pigs of Rundle Mall...they even have a name each!



Hogwarts Library!! Haha it's part of the State Library =P



One of the buildings in University of Adelaide



In front of the building of UniSA that links to many other buildings

Can you see the similarity of the kind of buildings both universities have? Traditional-kinda-old architecture which Li Ping likes... (I like such buildings as well)...but Monash doesn't have buildings like that! It must be nice to be able to see these kind of buildings when you walk to uni everyday...can appreciate the architecture and have the feeling of being in an 'overseas' university =P

Parliament...come to think of it, I never take pic in front of the Parliament of Victoria

Doreen told us that Adelaide is the City of Churches...it's true because we could see many churches around the city. Yet I would like to add another name to it...city of 'statues'....because there are so many statues around too!!

Two of the many statues we took pictures with

Had dinner at a Korean restaurant then coffee/hot chocolate at Chocolate Bean. Planned to go clubbing at HQ after that but there was a long queue and we didn't wanna wait, so we went to the Skycity Casino instead. Observing people playing Blackjack and poker is interesting actually =)

The next day we went to a German village called Hahndorf. Su Fei and Kar Yee joined us!

I like the colour of autumn leaves =)

Some of the little treats we bought



Cute chocolate packagings



A good reason for not feeling guilty for eating too much chocolate =P

Had a fabulous lunch at a restaurant called Hahndorf Inn...we shared a German platter which included German sausages, jagerbraten (huge chunk of pork meat), pretzels, coleslaw and German potato salad...

Massive lunch which said 'serves 2' on the menu...2 German blokes?? haha



Li Ping, me & Su Fei...let's dig in!!



INTEC friends reunited...Doreen, Kar Yee, me, Su Fei
p/s: notice the empty plate with only bones left =P

We walked further down the street to a strawberry farm called Beerenberg. We didn't pick any strawberries....but we bought some jam and sauce there =)

Beerenberg

Took the bus back to the city after visiting Hahndorf. Chien, Doreen, Li Ping and I went to Glenelg for the beach by tram, just to spend time and take pictures there as it was still quite early for dinner. We saw 2 camels and a pony!

Another statue in Glenelg (did you realise that Glenelg can be spelt backwards as well?)



Dinner at Ajisen Ramen

Walked to Victoria Square after dinner to take pictures, we had lots of fun!

The fountain at Victoria Square



Met up with Siew Mei at Gelatissimo...haven't seen her after I left INTEC too



Doreen, Li Ping and I shared this...yummy~

3rd day...road trip to Barossa Valley. Had brunch before we went - Vietnamese beef noodles....

Special beef noodles with filter coffee makes a great brunch!

First stop, The Toy Factory, which has the world's biggest rocking horse...

We went up the rocking horse too...it's really high up there @.@ and oh it doesn't rock like a rocking horse haha



Li Ping, me, Chien, Desmond



There are sooooo many wooden colourful toys!!!

The Toy Factory also has a farm that has 'little' animals which we can feed...

Alpacas

Peacock

They have goats, kangaroo/wallaby, ducks, chickens and ponies too.

Went to the Whispering Wall after that. It's a dam actually...called Whispering Wall because what a person says at one end of the dam can be heard on the other end. Really amazing!

Huge dam

It was late afternoon so we quickly moved on to some wineries before the closing time (5pm).

We bought some wine there...



Posing with Desmond's car...it really looks like a scene in Malaysia, right?

Desmond drove us to have a look around Mawson Lakes where one of the campuses of UniSA is. Then we went to North Adelaide to have Mexican dinner =)

Nachos and tacos

Had ice cream at Dairy Bell after dinner. Then we went back to Chien's place to play cards till midnight. Someone is learning to play in casino hehehe

4th day - last day. Chien and her housemate Gin brought us to Central Market and Chinatown. After lunch at Rundle Mall, Desmond came and drove us to the airport...

Doreen was so excited and said that we should have Cocolat before we went back Melbourne



so the five of us shared this delicious chocolate



Some of the other stuff I brought back Melbourne besides wine

It was really a fun and memorable trip though we only spent 3.5 days in Adelaide. I'm glad that I met so many friends during this trip...thanks Li Ping whom I dragged along even though she didn't know anyone before this =) And also biggie thanks to Chien, Desmond and Doreen, you guys certainly made our trip to Adelaide an enjoyable one!! =D