Melbourne - Day 7

This was our last day in Melbourne and it was a Sunday! which meant that we were going for the Planet Shakers service in the afternoon. In the morning, we prepared our pasta lunches before setting off for Brighton Beach. It was a cool breezy morning, not the perfect weather for the beach, but good enough. Brighton Beach is a whole stretch of the sand and the sea, and a whole row of colorful houses. These are bathhouses that actually belong to ppl, but they're only used in the summer. Each house is numbered and painted a diff color/design. It was a pleasant sight, walking down the whole row. I love the green and yellow one with a picture of a kangaroo in boxing gloves, and the one with the aussie flag painted on. Rach took pics of every house (there were like 80!)

We left Yuting's place kinda late (what's new), so we resorted to having lunch in the car just to make it in time for the service at 3:45pm. And were there a whole lot of ppl! It was really grand, so huge and so packed we had to go 3 levels up to get a seat. Planet Shakers is a charismatic church, which explains the extremely LOUD music and some practices that we didn't really follow. It was an interesting experience, but some things that the church practiced were quite controversial. I guess i need to read up more.

After the service, we went to Koko Black, this chocolate place that Wei qin was promoting back in adl. It's really famous in Melbourne, and apparently every Singaporean who stays in OZ should know about it. We went to the one at Lygon Street. Yuting and I ordered a hot choc each (AUD5), and rach had the choc ice cream (AUD7.50). I must say that the chocolate is really of high standard (check out the price! haha..nah it wasn't that ex), and i thought they were even comparable to the Belgium ones. But yea, then I found out that Koko Black's chocolates ARE imported from Belgium..haha. The ice cream was really rich, but it wasn't so sweet that it made you sick of it. The hot choc (signature item on the menu) lived up to its name. Nothing like a hot choc on a winter night. Once again, it stimulates endorphins like all chocolate does and causes a superb sensation --> the root of happiness? hehh.

Yuting dropped us at Southern Cross station, where it was time to say goodbye to her and Melbourne. We were taking the night bus (AUD51) back, which meant a 10hr bus ride all the way to adl. Stocking up biscuits, chocolates and making the final dash for the loo, we got on the bus and headed back to the more peaceful part of OZ...(more pictures comin' up)

SMART cars (part of Benz) stacked up in the Mercs centre in the city

Flinders Train Station

My first time seeing a kiwi knife (frog in the well, mountain tortoise, etc), so I was quite fascinated..

me n yuting in her room

Can't blame her, it was national day period...