day 2 in melbourne

today is definitely not my 2nd day in melbourne....but the blog post is staying in day 2 at the moment, unfortunately since i had been really busy...busy busy busy moving around. yeah....this is what holiday is all about.

so i better get moving with this day so i can move to the next one.
the day of course started with the little baby again....the day really becomes brighter waking up to his cute smiles.

he was sitting on my knee here and looks like a bobbing doll right? imagine him bouncing on my knees and moving his head left and right....that is the bobbing baby for you.

we went out to chinatown for yumcha with my uncle.

these here are some of the dishes we ordered. i guess i was too busy eating and forgot to take a few. i had a really full lunch and all the dishes were great. this shark fin restaurant has many awards awarded for their service and food. the restaurant was packed and of course, most of the patrons were asians. it felt like i was in hong kong. the fishball here was supposed to be good but it did not come to us after waiting for almost 30 mins. i guess it was not meant to be.

after saying goodbye to uncle, we decided to walk all the way to the southbank to do some shopping at dfo, direct factory outlet.  it is not a short walk but the weather was brilliant and the walk would do good to help my digestion. hahaha.

wento myer to feed the baby at the parents' room they have there. so took the opportunity to see the annual christmas window display they have on their windows. there was no queue hence it was quite a quick browse through all the windows.
it was ok....there was too much white and hence, it was kinda hard to get the story by just looking. was too lazy to listen to the audio from window to window.

the frogs here were cute eh? they were at the little corners at the bottom of the windows.

enlarge the frame to see the windows. the display is designed according to a famous christmas story. they do a different story every year.

our walk to southgate took almost an hour as we took our own sweet time.

and the baby behaved and was in good mood ;)

the locals taking opportunity in the fine weather.

some interesting art pieces found in the city.

sexy lips. wanna sit on me??

we stopped for beer. ok, the baby is not drinking any beer lah...he is drinking water from the cup for the first time!!! bravo.

melbourne exhibition centre....and one of their exhibitions now is sexpo!! yeah baby, everything you want to know about sex is in there. maybe i will find one day and go explore.

national art gallery. we did not go in, just lingered a while outside.

crown hotel and casino.

yarra river that flows through the city.

the first floor of dfo. most of the shops are on basement level.
it is a bad idea to bring me shopping on just the 2nd day of my stay here. well, i guess generally it is just a bad idea to bring to a direct factory outlet store at anywhere and at anytime. right??

so here are the stuff i got. a pair of 8-hole white wild flower leather doc martens boots!!! woohoooo!!!
i have always wanted a pair but the prices were always not right.  i wore it out to the city today and it did not feel hard now uncomfortable. so yeah!!!
the second thing that i got is that grey adidas originals jacket. ok i know i won't have cold weather in malaysia to wear it but i can always bring it with me when i travel overseas. it is really nice. i like.

after shopping at dfo, it was quite a rush for us. we met up with my ex-student, yeelyn at qv. picked her up and headed to uncle's house for barbecue. gosh, it was rush hour since it was after office hour already and we were late! so terribly late! everyone was already there by the time we reached, my sister, brother and my sister's friend, shirley and hubby. felt so bad....

uncle did a good job at the grill. bravo!!!

we had corn, sausages, salmon, kangaroo meat, beef, chicken wings, onions and salad.
the kangaroo meat was all right....but let's just say, beef is still better.

for dessert, aunt ginny made tarte tartin and we had it with tasmanian ice-cream. gosh....heavenly. the honey caramelised macadamia ice-cream was out of this world. it was really good.

we stayed back till about 10 plus. it was quite late already actually. i had to go back to my other sister's house at point cook which is about 40 minutes away from kew as we were going to the national parks the next day.
we finally only reached point cook after midnight. it was tiring of course, but for exploration, anything is possible.

so the nex post....visit to victoria's parks. stay tune!