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A Week in Melbourne - Part 3

Miss Kiki has been asking me to take her to see snow. She even begged be to take her to Paris before end of March earlier this year just because her friend went to Paris for Christmas and she said there was snow there and winter should end in March. I told her, "Ki, when you were born there was a lot of snow..., and when you were little we used to take you out to see tons of snow and you were scared." She said she didn't remember any of it.

Anyway, when I heard that there's a ski resort near Melbourne, I arranged a day trip there. There are actually several ski resorts in the area. The closest one was Lake Mountain, and the largest and most famous one was Mt. Buller. My choice went to Mt. Baw baw that was the second closest one but from what I read was more developed than Lake Mountain.

Early morning, we took the metro from the Flagstaff Station to the Southern Cross Station to take the 7:20 am V/Line train to Moe. The ride to Moe was about 2 hours long. At the Moe Station, the transport I hired to get to Mt. Baw Baw was already waiting for us. It was a 4x4 from Mountain Top Experience. It cost us $60 per person for a same-day round trip, plus $5 per person for gate entry. Our driver was Brad, who just moved from Perth.

Metro station

Waiting for Metro

Our V/Line Train




It was just our luck, the day we went it was +2 Celcius on the mountain that day, so there was almost no snow! It was blowing wind and mist, and was so cold! Not the best day to be there. We were still able to slide down their toboggan slope and played with some ice, but lets just admit it was not the best day.


Cute snow buggies


First tobogganing experience



Hot chocolate after toboggan

AU $15 breakfast platter









Do you want to build a snowman?




We got back to the CBD at around 7 pm and we had dinner at a Chinese restaurant called Rose Garden. I had the egg chiffon with roasted pork on rice, and DH ordered the duck fried rice. Both were really good. Miss Kiki just shared our dishes. The dishes cost about AU$ 10 each. After dinner we rushed to Melbourne Central to catch Smiggle store before they close for the day, to get Miss Kiki's trolley backpack for school next year. My mom tried to get it in Singapore just a few weeks prior but they didn't have it yet so she gave Miss Kiki some cash to buy it in Melbourne. Luckily they had it in there!



Thank you, Oma!


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