wan called it "the journey of self-discovery" a little literally cos wan kept us busy with her 99 psychological quizzes spanning from choosing shapes to reviving dinosaurs to drawing houses and stars - mel drew many many stars!!! :p then there was also the genotype diet book that she impulsively bought in melbourne uni. very ley chey... still have to compare fingerprints on the two hands. personally i feel that it is based more on phenotype than genotype and i suspect many others on the car would not disagree with me. smoky book, but it kept us entertain so it's good :) we also played taboo, our all-time fave game. it's funny that eventually we found that pin's taboo cards are actually a gift from mel one christmas... how scheming!!!
apart from the people and the entertainment, the perfect scenery makes the road trip very worthwhile.
we had the good luck of renting the toyota that pin has at home. and the good luck of having pin around to drive most of the great ocean road. it's so windy, i bet only jordan will describe the driving as shiok.
we stopped x times along the great ocean road to take photos. had to keep in mind that the best photo view will be coming in later on and we shouldn't stop so often but we still kept doing it, i'm definitely guilty of saying wow etc, oops. unfortunately god throw in the rain along the way, we eventually settled for just sending mel in the front seat to go out to capture a quick photo of the misty but still beautiful scenery. there was once when i heck it all and headed into the rain to capture the 3 mountain fold along the river. super chio, hope the photo turn out well man.
then as we were heading into the road leading to the cape otway lighthouse, the night begin to fall. the one lane road was overshadowed by the tall trees that lined the seemingly never ending road. it was so foggy that we decided to u-turn. sobs.
finally we reached our hostel. which is like a eerie red house standing alone?!! zero lights. raining. pin has to chip in with "i know what u did last summer" to scare us. but nobody said anything, just pretend to be very normal, play taboo and drink wine. it's quite funny to think back on it, when the next day we were playing taboo and mandy went "the thing we were scared of last night" and wan, rebec and i all went ghosts! hahah. fyi, the actual word was spirits :D
that night we met some exchange students, 2 guys 1 girl, and 1 guy started the fireplace. woohoohs! it was so amazingly warm and shiok. first time i live in a place with fireplace that actually has fire burning. *yes, mountain turtle*
they shared how the girl insisted on driving and 10 min after she took the wheels, the tyre punctured. glad i didn't have the good luck of cui'ing our car. just that... i still can't park for nuts :p that didn't stop me from taking the wheel the next morning, partly cos i believe pin is major tired after driving for 3 days and mostly cos i really really want to experience driving the great ocean road. i drove for a short 15 min from the hostel to 12 apostles with some curves but we've survived. *phew*
the major complain will be that the cars we had in melb and syd were both sliding door cars. it was seriously a chore just to get in and out of the car. the only pro we can tink for it will be that ppl will not want to take a ride from the ley chey car and so the owner will not have to send ppl home! :p
our hyundai getz in sydney was of a humble size. after a few times having difficulty recognizing our car parked alongside other big boys, mel remarked that it always amazes her at how small our car is. remind me not to get a 1.4litre car next time no matter how economical it is.
the way home from hunter valley was super nice!!! we saw so many so many a lot a lot a lot of stars!!! so much that i could no longer tell which is the orion which i frequently spot cos all the stars are so aplenty that they just keep forming straight lines! super chio.
tho i still didn't get to see the waterfalls i so long to see, still very much enjoy the road trips. good company, great scenery, may we always remember! :) :)
mel, now can take down the photoshopped photo of us with the 12 apostles and put the real one alr! <3
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