Honeymoon - New Zealand (South Island)

We are married!

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After the most luxurious staycation we've ever enjoyed (we stayed 2 nights at the biggest suite at Marriott Tang Plaza Hotel, were pampered to a really relaxing massage session, buffet breakfast and in-room dining), we are off to our honeymoon destination - New Zealand!

Here's the start to our enjoyable trip down South Island!

Day 1

First stop - Queenstown :) 

The apartment we booked had the most gorgeous view from our balcony. Imagine waking up to this glorious views of mountains and lake, it's certainly the best feeling in the world if you appreciate nature. We travelled in November, springtime and long daylight hours! This view was almost 4pm, but it was still bright and sunny because sun only sets around 9pm during this time of the year.

After settling down, we quickly set off to check out the town centre (and our usual must-go stop is local supermarkets to get stocks - mainly drinking water). Passed by the beautiful lake and had to snap a million shots before proceeding.

For dinner, we chose the longest-queuing eatery - Ferg Burger! The portions of the burgers were really generous, I enjoyed wolfing it down with crisp and thick fries, complete with some cold beer to beat the heat. We were wearing long sleeves and all, and it turned out really blazing hot on our first day at Queenstown. So I thought we overpacked after our Day 1 experience, but eventually, we had wisely used our apparels to adapt to the unpredictable and ever changing weather of New Zealand.

Ended our meal with 3 scoops of Ferg gelato before calling it a day.

We fall in love with this city more and more each time we look out from our apartment's balcony.

Melbourne-Tasmania 2017 Part VII

DAY NINE

It was our second last day in Melbourne! :( But yes, a day for us to explore the city further & more cafes yes yes yes. Headed to The Hardware Societé cafe (totally random because there were too many options.) Purely gut feel and when we reached there was a queue, so I thought, ah the food must be nice! #sosingaporeanmentality 

We got our seats around a huge communal table and started enjoying the best hot chocolate in my life!!! 

Pretty swan latte art :)

I ordered this lobster benedict!! Acquired an atas taste overseas. heh heh.

& R ordered this rustic looking egg dip thingy with chorizo sausages and assorted items in it.

Then it was time to walk around the city! Omg I just realised we didn't even enter this H&M building. AIYAH. nvm, I'm sure I won't end up buying anything anyway. Ok next up are just some sights of the city:

So we walked along the Yarra River (i.e River River) all the way to DFO South Wharf 👍Managed to buy some cheap havaianas slippers so yay score! and that was about it for me. :B

After DFO, it was time for lunch! Went to a Korean restaurant and had a great meal with my beef bulgogi set :D cheap and delish!

Then we headed to the cannot-be-missed Victoria State Library!! It was indeed a charming place.

We actually sat down to have a good game of chess. Of course it was clear who the winner was (me). HAHAHA. 

Dropped off the heavy things back at the apartment before we set off for St Kilda in the evening!

St Kilda was beautiful!!! One of my favourite places in Melbourne.

Headed to Luna Park to sight-see for a bit first. It actually looks pretty scary if you imagine it as a desolated theme park...

Then off we go to the beach!! It was so beautiful walking along St Kilda Beach :') and watching sun slowly set.

One of the most solid and down-to-earth sun set I've seen. Literally an entire solid egg yolk going down to earth. 

Then here we are at St Kilda Pier! We're going to see some penguins tonight!!

We waited patiently for a good 45 minutes or so before we started seeing penguins coming home! 

Was difficult to capture pictures in the dark, but it was so cute watching them waddle around! After we felt satisfied with penguin-watching, we proceeded to satisfy our tummies! Dinner with R's sis heh.

Guess what! We finished this bottle of red wine. 

Feasted the night away

Cheers to everything good in our lives!!

& R being high after drinking half of that wine bottle. :o

Thankfully everyone sobered up after like 10 minutes of walk to the tram stop. hahahaha! 

DAY TEN

Last day syndrome!! BOOHOO. 

This was the view I saw when I woke up on our last morning at Melbourne.

I googled and (randomly, again) found this cafe. We were way too early that morning, but they were nice enough to have us wait inside until they were ready to serve us. 

Such pretty plating!!

After breakfast, we went around the city one last time to grab souvenirs before heading back to the apartment to pack and prepare for our departure. Then, we headed out again to run an errand and finally tried Mr Burger, as recommended by R's sis. Teehee the burger and fries in Australia are really good stuff. Fed our tummies well before we left for the airport in the afternoon.

Then it was goodbye to Australia, for now! 

P.s we were so lucky the entire trip - had lovely weather and beautiful skies everyday. It started to storm heavily when we reached Melbourne airport & we felt so fortunate that we had perfect weather for travelling throughout our 10 days. We will miss such travels, till next time!