Gold Coast - Day 3

The 3rd day was considerably boring. The bright sunshine greeted us to a good day ahead.

The kids (including the big one) were lazing in the bed. Mummy had to drag them off the beds.

We headed to Paradise Country, which is an Aussie farm.

They have shows, almost back to back, each about 30mins to entertain us the whole morning. I do felt very much like a tourist and realized that I like feeling like a tourist with events all lined up and no need to plan what's next, which is thye kids' favorite question they entire trip.

Lil Shauna likes the sheep shearing best. We get to touch the wool thereafter and could even take some home but Lil Shauna wasn't keen. The unprocessed wool didn't feel as soft as I thought it would be and looked pretty dirty too. Well, how clean can it be when the sheep run around all day in the fields. Haha.

We also get plenty of chances to take pix with the animals.

Our trip happened to coincide with that of a huge group of PRCs. The farm even arranged for Chinese commentator to translate sentence by sentence. You could tell that the Aussies do not really like the PRCs, some of the PRCs were very rough towards the animals. However, the Aussie staff were all smiles and very encouraging towards the kids, who really were very loving towards the kids.
The half day trip ended with feeding the calves, lambs and piglets. The piglets were really hungry and fighting over food. I was actually worried that the piglets would chomp the kids' fingers off.

We also took our first family picture at Paradise Country, with the sheep, which isn't the best idea. The sheep were distractions to the kids, they don't smell too good, attract houseflies and seem very interested to chew our hair anytime. Lol.

Then, we headed to Habor Town, which is a shopping center of various brand outlets. Unfortunately, things aren't that cheap and it really wasn't an easy feat trying to shop with the kids. I am allergic to shopping with kids and didn't buy anything at all. Daddy Lim managed to get himself an Addidas T-shirt. In my opinion, the best thing is to be able to find Chinese noodles for lunch. We are so deprived of Chinese food. We had burgers and pastas for the last 2 days.

Towards the last 2 hours, we were willing the time to pass faster and were so happy when the bus finally came to bring us back to the hotel.

Back at Surfers' Paradise, we strolled a little along the beach and visited the little tentages set up to sell mainly handicraft before heading back to the hotel. There were quite a number of baskers on Friday night too. We saw Spiderman and we had no idea what he was supposed to be performing. He simply went around chatting people up and giving people Hi-5 in his Spiderman costume.

We didn't buy any of the tourist staff from the tentages. Our pockets aren't deep enough. We headed back to the hotel and headed to bed after the usual dip in the bath tub. We are heading to the Sea World the next day and hopefully it would be more exciting. It definitely will, nothing can be worse than shopping (not for them) for the kids. Haha.
Mummy Lim