We had a short vacation of 4 days and 3 nights last week in Gold Coast(GC). The flight tickets were bought since last year and due to unduly circumstances we had postponed the trip. It's also fair to us especially Kimi's mummy because she had not taken a so called 'smooth' christmas and end year holiday to complete a few write-ups etc.
We arrived at GC Coolangata airport after 1h departed from Sydney and took a cab to the Shore hotel apartment at Surfers Paradise. Since we arrived on Sunday afternoon, nobody from the hotel came to greet us (it's a public holiday) but they left a good system to let us took our room keys. We went up to our room with their unique lift..why I said it's unique since we had to use our key to press the button to our level. Ohw..it was not the card-key..it's a real key, the same as the door key. The apartment was nice since we could see the beach from our windows. If I was not mistaken the beach stretches about 72 km long.
On the day of arrival, we did a quick shopping for our groceries at nearby Coles supermarket and brought Kimi to the beach. He loved it so much and we were so tired of chasing him as not to let him to be far away in the water, the wave looked quite strong.
On the second day, we went to the Sea World. It took us about 10 minutes by cab that costs us quite cheap in price around AUD10. We had posted some photos in the slide show below. Enjoice. Oh yea..we bumped into Huey..the celebrity chef of "Never trust a skinny cook". He was there to shoot his current cooking show. The place is not that huge though and there are timings to see the shows but during our visit, the show started a bit late, in fact we missed the dolphin show. We managed to catch up with sesame street and the water skiing shows.
On the third day, we booked a shuttle bus to ferry us to the Movie World/ Warner Bros. Since it's Warner Bros sponsored theme park..you just expected theirs only productions there. So, don't expect more than that i.e. don't expect a place like Disneyland. There is a place for toddler but most of the rides only allowed kids with more than 95cm tall and Kimi is still shorter than that. We managed to take him only on a few rides like a road runner train ride, merry-go-round and tweety cage ride. The last ride lasted for a while and daddy didn't tagged along. Poor Kimi, he looked a bit scared probably gayat or something..err come from daddy's gene maybe. All in all we just spent about 4 hours in both theme parks. Maybe if younger siblings were there, they could spent till the theme park closed. But for us, 4 hrs were just a nice time to spend plus the weather was scorchingly hot during those days. Ohw..what we experienced in both theme parks..most of the booths in the parks started a bit late not 10 am sharp eventhough we were allowed in at 10 am. Most of the evenings after visiting the theme park, we spent our time either at Cavill avenue(shopping and finding halal food) or the beach. Cavill avenue is sort of the high end place with many designer boutiques and all. We just felt the place more or less like Bukit Bintang area in KL. All in all the trip was nice, an escapade for a busy city like Sydney and we were fortunate that the school holiday seasons had ended when we were there and the places were not that crowded.
That's all for this time trip. Kimi's mummy got to get back with her lab works and all and daddy with his nursery. Still smell the fresh seabreeze and the sound of waves.
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