Thursday, June 07, 2007
I dun like taking plane rides anymore. Keep feeling sick. threw up twice. Anyw on the bright side, gold coast was FUN. The theme parks were almost the same as errr 8 years ago. except for some changes. movie world was quitegood. scooby doo spooky coaster was lk so fun! i know the name doesnt sound that thrilling or intimidating but yea it was GOOD. better than disnyeland's space mountain. dam zai. the backward drop. plus somemore it was in this dark area. lk space mountain. The flume ride thingy was pretty gd too. Next, SEA WORLD. So-so la. not that many rides. mostly lk water shows and stuff. i took the flume ride again and yea, gd.
Actually hor im just going through the main highlights. not going into detail.So after that was...........AUSTRALIA ZOO. And CRIKEY isnt it gorgeous. steve irwin's zoo was very nice. looks a lot more natural than our zoo, as in it had more like rainforest and dunno-wad-kind of trees and stuff and less structures. So it was more natural. And everything was like more spaced out so the zoo was really big! around twice the size of ours? but then i suppose its cos they have more land. Oh and we went into the CROCOSEUM as well. it was really cool. but looked much smaller than on tv. but it was nice though. the crocodile show there was ok la. same stuff that steve does- the feeding and all that. but the show woulda been nicer if he had done the it. so like behind the crocoseum was this whole row of zookeeper oufits with many farewell messages and stuff frm ppl to him. very nice zoo. oh and they also named the road outside the zoo "STEVE IRWIN"S WAY". haha. oh and they were really merchendising him. a lot of things like caps, t-shirts, water bottles, mugs, and even toys etc had him on it.
nxt few days were shopping. went to chinatown in brisbane which was kinda dead then went to queen street. its this very long street full of shops and stuff but all quite ex. including the parking fee. guess how much we paid to park there for 1 1/2 hrs and chinatown for abt an hour? $32 SING DOLLARS! MAI XIAO XIAO. carzy one. the parking costs a bomb. now orchard road seems like a rather cheap place to park. LOL. right, so near paradise centre(the service apartment i was staying at) there was this
ang mor pasamalam. cool eh? quite interesting stuff. there was this shop selling aussie notes(fake one la) with cartoon characters and stuff on it. looked quite cute. then there was this magic shop selling some gimmicks like the burning wallet and stuff. din buy. not really fond of gimmicks. and the next day we went to carera(nt sure got spell wrongly or not) markets. not many interesting stuff except for a bird like whictle which u put into ur mouth and blow or smth to make u sound like a bird. quite cool. really sound like jiao.
Dreamworld was really good. i took the CLAW with me mum. Very good. but i felt a little giddy aft tt. its basically lk a spinning viking ship. go google it to see. one of the big 5 thrill rides leh! very good. experience 0 gravity at certain points of the ride. very good. it swung 9 stories high leh. nice. a lot of rides at that place. go google dreamworld australia to see. and i rode REPTARS RUNAWAY COASTER 5 times! nt that scary. but ok la. I LOVE COASTERS. i remb i took my first thrill ride here at dreamworld 8 years ago. and been addicted since. i dun think many of u ppl reading know that i am a thrill ride fan. so yea. now u know. but i dun like taking things that just spin around in circles. makes me really sick. oh and speaking of spinning there was this ride called vortex. u get into this carraige(and stand) and it spins like xiao. so u really feel the centrifugal force. and can climb up the wall and stuff. cool eh.
k this has been one of my longest blog post. cya soon!
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