Thursday, December 23, 2010
5 days recount;
DOT POINTSS

19/12/10
- Sea world, stood in line for ages to get our photo taken for VIP passes, completely wet [rain & most of the rides I liked as a kid closed down :(], jet skiiers show which i took videos of, we walked around in plastic bags [$5 each :oo] for raincoats, sting ray touching was probably the best because we all got wet & the tidal pool was fun when the stingrays swam past & we like chased after them touching them, sarah loved it, polar bear but it didn't really do much, the car was infested by little antmoth bugs [we had to return the car into the airport hertz car rentals for a new one], buying dinner & the 3daysfoodworth of supplies from convenience store. We survived on the GPS pretty much & only i knew how to work it but from the backseat, sarah kept going "I LOVE YOU GPS" in this really cute baby voice that made grandma laugh so many times. the hotel was really the only good part of the day because at first we were like, "4 star ?yuckk" because whenever we go on holidays, it's always 5 star so we noticed a difference in the reception & service & everything [LOL we're so stuckup] but then the room was humongous. i took so many photos of it, it was apartment-style with a living room & kitchen. & great tv channels [like those shows "Guiliana and Bill" & "How do I look?"] & so we just chilled.

20/12/10
- AMAZING wet&wild, incredible slides, mum getting into a swimsuit [first i'd ever seen in my life], on the river in floaties where mum tried to sit on the floaty & ended up turning over into the water LOL, edward & william on like all the scary slides & even mum went on the mammoth [we climbed up all the stairs- me, sarah, edward, william, mum, simone & william's mum & auntie] mum kept going "let me go down, I don't think i can do this" but we kept prodding on going "going back down the stairs is scarier than going on the ride which was true]. neptune's seafood platter which was chat [little seafood, full of chips] so sarah & i bought chicken cabonara pasta which was way nicer, grandma in a swimsuit as well on the river, wave pool, full splashing with auntie, mum & simone's mum, william's water guns which we kept stealing from him, edward overturning everyone from under the water, amazing time on the 8racer, THE TORNADO [which sarah pouted on because it hurt; like a huge deep funnel], incredibly fun, sunset times, water splashing, mum & grandma kept waiting for me & sarah to come back so we could go in the wave pool & less scary rides, yvonne, ellie & simone on the scariest dry ride [which i was too chicken to go on], heaps of line waiting, burning feet, lots & lots of photos, the river had tonnes of stops & whirling so cool & nice, i loved when mum & grandma came with us when they were clinging to me & sarah even though the depth was 0.8m xP

LATER
Dinner at the LEGENDS seafood chinese place which was,, alright. haha, chicken, beef, springrolls, usual chinese food. Mum, grandma, sarah & i were isolated from the big table because we came late so we just ate our own food & sarah & i visited the tourist shop which was australian so we pretended to be asian tourists. Afterwards, we walked out on the street where it was still warm & light & beachy, tonnes of lights & ice cream shops, we went to time zone where sarah & i raced around playing tonnes of games, trying to get tokens for tiny prizes. I went on one of those car driving rides where I crashed many times- I don't think i should be allowed near a car later in life (: then sarah started driving so I made mum sit next to her & they both fully cracked up & smiled, mum made surprised faces each time sarah crashed because the carstimulator kept jerking & moving, I took a video of it, blaring lights & mum's laughing watching sarah trying to drive. & there was this easy game that sarah & i were so happy we found because it gave us heaps of points. we met up with edward, william, simone, yvonnne & ellie [who i didn't talk to for the whole holiday] a couple of times but mostly sarah & i went on the hammering animals popping up thing [kind of like whack-a-mole]. It was amazing fun, crazy & flustered running up & down, pretend gambling while grandma rested on the massage chair. sarah & i went in the photo booth & took a couple, decorating & being random. Afterwards, I lost the camera. It was really sad because it had a hundred of the holidays photos & i fully broke down trying to look form it & ended up going to the hotel all depressed because i lost all the memories. i don't give a crap about losing the camera though,, My grandma kept trying to comfort me saying that the camera meant nothing but then I couldn't really say anything back,


21/12/10
still depressed in the morning over camera & begging mum to go back to timezone to look for it, movie world, charlie & the chocolate factory [rocky road], china town, baby rollercoaster with mum trying to convince us out of, snowcones, daffy duck shows, wildwest setting with huge waterfall which mum would never let us go on, almost watched polar express 4d, left to SURFER'S PARADISE, eating at seafood restaurant [garlic bread, pasta, risotto], looking at timezone again [we thought we lost sarah there & i went frantic panic again & realised the camera really did mean nothing because what's more important ? the photos or the actual person ? it made me realise & i felt better about it for a while. i was so relieved to find sarah] , buying clothes from ICE, browsing a seashell decoration shop, drinking passion mango boost, buying silver heels for $30 which made me so happy, mum's the best, grandma was laughing telling me to get smaller heels, sarah got grumpy because the converses she wanted were over $100 & went into buildabear. we walked out & went to the airport, bought 4 pineapple fritters, cried in the airplane over the lost camera, met dad, told him everything, hilarious car conversations because sarah was hyper, ate at beauty & the beast restaurant [egg, chilli chicken, seafood pancake yuuuuuumm], we kept piling food on grandma's plate because she wouldn't eat enough [it was like 10pm & we were eating dinner at strathfield, it was so nice & fun]; went home. SO TIRED !

22/12/10
Yesterday - we lounged about most of the morning, had hungry jacks for lunch & went to eastwood [the chinese part :OO]. sarah & i kept making jokes about it; like "omg, we're in their territory !" because there's the korean part & chinese part (: i hope no one thought we were retarded. the main reason we went there was to buy series of korean dramas from this shop & it was so cheap. i was like mind blown because in korea, a drama costed like $100 at least but in that shop, it was $8 & that was crazy. so we bought like 5 series & mum tried to haggle prices because she mentioned before to us that she couldn't do it so it kind of went like this.

Mum- "Could we get a little discount? We'll bring lots of friends!"
Woman- -obvious awkward silence-
Sarah & I- -facepalm-
-More awkward silence-
Mum- "ok, -gives $40- bye..." :(

Then we just walked around, exploring the unknown territory haha. we went to a bread shop where we made the lady working there angry so we just bought the bread & left. We went into clothing stores without buying anything at which point mum said that she thought her haggling was pretty good & at which point, sarah & i facepalmed once again. she doesn't seem to understand haha  but i love her, my mum & sister are my lifelong best friends, obviously different to school friends but still, so close. we spent a lot of the day watching the dramas & i think we ate something simple only i don't remember. ohh wait, we went to grandma's house because edward & yvonne were leaving. there was something sad about it. edward & us are as close as ever when he comes, just a supersmart, slightly nerdy cousin who's pretty cool to hang out with & play card games with because we still act like kids but yvonne seems sort of detached [maybe because she's an adult now ?]. i don't know, it's sort of sad. i think years ago, when she was like 13, she was really fun to hang with & we were close but ever since, she seems too grown up. mum said that we wouldn't see them again for another 3 years at least which is depressing because they only live in Perth...which is far away i guess LOL the next time i see them, yvonne will be old & edward will be heaps taller & probably have a deep voice, that's so weird.

Grandma made her famous cold noodles [so yuum] while we played cardgames [cheat because we didn't have enough people for mafia]. Then I had violin lessons, not much to be said about that. (: sarah & i treadmilled while watching boys before flowers. so happy.

23/12/10
Today, ran in the morning while watching "boys before flowers", ate ramen for lunch, read a little of "The White Queen", tried to study & failed, dad came home early, went out to eastwood for dinner [Myung Ga or something] & had korean bbq <33 So heaps of meat, chilli monkfish, chilli tofu soup as usual, eating out like every day lately. We went to Office Works where dad bought a replacement camera for the one i lost/was stolen for Christmas. Thank you, I love my parents. i couldn't be more grateful for them, seriously. Sarah & I walked around, making fun of the peole who worked there & kept being retarded. In the car, we started dancing idiotically [publicising my humiliating moments] to Hot & Cold & sarah kept making me put my legs up & down to the "you're up & you're down" lyrics. & she kept yelling "can't you go higher, i mean seriously, -puts her leg up blocking dad from seeing from the rearview mirror- I can put my leg higher & i need to pee!". LOL, she kept screaming while sometimes doing an indian accent & we were just laughing the whole car ride again.

the end.

ohh btw, just to let you know, you don't have to read all that. This isn't for entertainment purposes but just so i can better organise recounts/diaries so I'll remember them. Just letting you know, not to read all these because they're also sort of personal ^  ^