My XX number of honeymoon

Many people told us that it's good to take short breaks and go away with yr partner to somewhere. Well! Joe and I try to do so but somehow leaving kids behind kinda scary. Don't know if they will be good and behaves themselves while my parents babysit them. Actually, Channery ahs been skipping childcare as maid is not trained to bring her there. With the other kids at home, she also finds it hard to leave home for school. Been thinking if I should enrol he rin a school nearer to my place.

Okay back to my short trip. First day, we touched down at aout 8am but waited a long time for the over-size luggage. Luckily for us, they did not open our bags to do checks. The custom only sent their trained dog to sniff around our things and we were free to go. Wai Yan came to fetch us and sent us to hotel. We managed to have an early check-in as Joe had called them a day before to inform them that.

W went out for lunch and we ended up eating hor fun and laksa. After that, Joe went to University and I went to Campsie to close my bank account. Total is $5k plus and all transferred to Joe's account. Being a housewife also means I manged to save up even though I had only $350 per week at that time. Not forgetting I taught Chinese school on weekends whereby I was paid $28 an hr. Anyway, glad that every thing was settled. I walked around my old neighbourhood for a while and realized that not much changes have occurred. Sydney is a place where I don't see drastic changes as people here like to conserve and recycle more - even old buildings. Went to my usual supermarkets and even teh cashiers look just as good. Bought a lot of things there. We had baked chicken, salad, bread for dinner. Also bought breakfast cereal and milk as eating out here is not a good option. Cheapest is $4.95 at hungry jack.
After eating, Joe and I watched "Australia Master Chef junior Finale" and the show always amazed us as to how people can come up with so many fantastic dishes.Junior means this time now its the kids having competition and yet it's really amazing to see isabella and Jack being so steady. After the show ended, we decided to sign up for Movie deal. To watch as much show as possible in 24hrs timeframe. I really enjoyed my day in the next day catching all the good shows like "letters to Juliet", "Flying the distance", etc.

The next day Joe was off to office and I just watched movie after movie. Joe bought back dinner for us and we ended eating vegetarian pak thai and frie noodles plus fried popiah. AFter dinner, we watched more shows and "konkask" at 12 plus.


on Wednesday, I bought a one day buses, trains and ferries pass and took a ferry to my favourite beach, Manly beach. Nothing changes there and I ended up buying lots of things from Aldi. I took the bag and went to meet Joe's friends for lunch. Late as the ferry took more than what I expected. We had Thai Food and the seafood green curry was yummy. aFter lunch, Joe went back office with friends and continued my shopping. I took a train to Paddy's market and went about shopping happily. I again bought lots of stuff.

Went back to Joe's office around 5 plus to go facebook. After that, we took a train back to hotel. At around 7 plus, we walked down to King's wharf trying to find a decent eating place but I finf the places too crowded and noisy. We had steak, salad and fries plus nan bread and curry at the food court. After dinner we walked around the place and walked to star city Casino as we had never set foot inside. Very sad as the ang Mo security checked the ang mo before us but never asked for our ID. Maybe they do not care so much about Asians. WE walked around the place - noisy, crowded and bright. We used $5 to play jack pot and ended up wining $7. WE decided not to continue playing after half an hr as the winnings keep going up and down. We walked back to hotel and shared an ice cream with the money we won. Fun night whereby we just relaxed and chit chattd and had fun.

On Thursday, Joe went back to Office and I slept in till about 11 plus. I took a train and met him at Marrickville. We met Jean for lunch and it was a pleasant reunion. She looks good and still quite the same. We talked about our lives and how our kids were doing in Singapore. After lunch, we went back to Jean's place to wrapped up my kids' art pieces. WE ended up with a bag full of fragile items :>

After lunch, we went to buy a box of chocolate for Wai Yan and Larissa as we were supposed to go and pick up our stuff from their house. Not nice to go empty handed la. We packed up and Waiyan had to lend us his big trolley bag as we simply have too much stuff. After that, wai Yan drove us to a Korean BBQ buffet restaurant and it's really nice and value for money. We had a fun time talking and eating all the food. We came back to hotel around 10pm and started packing till around 11 plus before we hit the pillow.

This morning Joe and I checked out of the hotel around 9am and I had been shopping and wondring around since then. Now is 2.16pm and it is nearly time for me to go back to hotel. I bought a monorail day ticket and can take unlimited monorail rides in city centre. Went to fish market and really miss coming here with my family to buy fresh seafood. Got to run now as time runninglate