Canberra + Sydney: Revisited [Part 1]

My parents went to New Zealand for holiday, my parents, uncles and some of their friends plan to stop over to Sydney for holiday. So happen my cousins Benjamin and Brandon together with their family were also in Sydney during that time. Then I have friends in Canberra who I want to visit to, Wai Yee who's working there and Jane who just finished her semester there. So it was a perfect opportunity to visit both place at that period of time.

Arrived at Canberra, on the 29th of Sept in the afternoon. After traveling domestically for a few years, the thing I learned is to travel in the afternoon where traffic is good and you don't need to rush early in the morning or late in the evening. Weather was good cause spring was supposed to be around the corner. My "hotel" once again is in Fenner Hall! Hahaha... really missed the place, when I first stepped in the hall, gosh the nostalgic dorm smell.

Was a pretty simple plan on the first nite... had dinner with my host for my trip in Canberra, Jane Lau! Took her to a Thai Restaurant in the city, is also her first "long meal" as she call it =p Really good catching up with old friends from Malaysia.

"Jane took me to a Thai Restaurant which is supposed to be 1 of the best in Canberra"



"The TOWN CENTER. Yes, that's as big as this city can be..."


Headed back to the hall, went back to our own room and I thought I could begin my Dota session which is one of the highlights of Canberra when I first visited this place. Alas, seems like either everyone went back to their home country or the game is not hype anymore. Could also be the Hall's way to prevent peer-to-peer downloads. No matter, an early sleep does no harm and I needed to wake up quite early in the morning to Floirade (or Florade). Is a Spring fair, with loads and loads of Tulip flowers on display... yes like the one somewhere at the foothills of Mt. Dandenong in Victoria. However compared to the one back in Melb, this is much more interesting cause is not just display of Tulips but more of a fair and lots of flower art.




Wake up once again to a beautiful warm morning. Had a very short and quick breakfast with Jane then we were off to the fair. Oh... entrance is free as well! Woot! When I entered the park... wooo it's really really B.E.A.-UTIFUL!








Basically the flowers displayed are set up with a theme. For example the picture below is "Wedding Dress" theme.





Then I stumbled upon an interesting stuff... "Australian Fair". Played tracks and tracks of good old disney themes and other iconic anthems in cute organ sound.







"Can you spot the Super Obvious? (clue: something to do with the feet)"







On that nite had dinner with Wai Yee... chat chat chat on high school stuff and gossip gossip =p So Ol' Skool indeed! Then visited her place and met her BF and their dog which is super super HYPER!!



Then comes Wednesday... Thank goodness it was a only 2 day trip, any longer I might rot =p Time to move on to my next destination...

Sydney here I come woot woot!!!