Geelong road trip

We planned a second road trip to Geelong/Queenscliff last Wednesday-Friday, just 2 weeks after our first road trip!

It was a cold rainy day when we drove to Geelong. Stopped by the waterfront to have our lunch - homemade sushi by Chean Ying (and halls assistants?) and of course took some pictures =D

Geelong has more than 100 of these wooden characters around

They have a carousel too

After the short break we continued our journey to our accommodation at Ceres...it's a house at a hill top. The house we stayed is as awesome as the house in the previous road trip, the difference being that this house is very 'high-tech' and has won awards due to its design + energy-saving concept. So you could say that we were staying in a 'million-dollar' house... =P

Private road leading to the house (Barrabool Hills Estate)

 Front door...

Living room

Home theatre system...wow! All controlled by a remote control, whether you want to watch Foxtel, listen to Ipod, watch DVD, play PS3....

Dining area

Kitchen

We are allowed to use any ingredients in the pantry!

And even this....coffee!!

Coffee-maker and milk steamer

 Coffee is a must everyday in this house....awesomeness

BBQ area

It has a swimming pool on one side

The other side

View from inside the house

Found this magazine in the games room....the house in the picture is the house we stayed in =P

Taking picture with the breathtaking view as our background

What we did:

Day 1 - relax at home playing Daniel's PS3 because we were too impressed by the house, then prepared dinner while a few of us went to have a swim.

Preparing dinner

dessert expert making strawberry and apple pie

they had fun at the swimming pool despite it being a cold day

We had our dessert first because these came out of the oven earlier =P

Our dinner

It seemed that we were all reluctant to go to bed, so some of us watched movie in the living room till 3.30am =P when, if not now (holidays) that us friends get to stay up late at night together?

Day 2 - relax at home in the morning before starting our journey to Queenscliff and the beach.

Outdoor mahjong....priceless

A neighbour's dog came to our house compound, it's soOOoooo cute!

Time to go to Queenscliff!

Saw a group of pelicans and seagulls on the way

Big pelican on top of the lamp post

had our lunch of fish and chips and calamari and scallops

Beach time!

Went home to start preparing dinner....BBQ! It started raining so we couldn't use the BBQ pit at first and had to grill/fry our food in the kitchen....but the sky cleared later so we BBQ the rest of the food =D

Double rainbow appeared after the rain

Justina and the huge pepper grinder

Dinner time!

then karaoke

Day 3 - planned to go to the Geelong water theme park but ended up enjoying ourselves in the swimming pool instead. Then it's time to leave...but group pics first!

 Inside the house

and outside the house

Bye bye sheep, bye bye Barrabool Hills Estate