Thursday, July 12, 2012

Puffing Billy!

This trip got me up at about 7am in the morning!
shuffling and pottering around in the kitchen with sandwiches and nutella cake.
yummmy.
met up with the rest of the group at melbourne central at 10+ and we were on our way to belgrave to catch the old steam train! :)

the bummer came when all of us went in and saw that the train does not go to belgrave due to train fault!
OMG was the only thing that came to my mind at that point of time.
that was crazy. we only had that train to take. if we missed it, we were like left with a day of nothing to do.
and the train had to have some sort of fault and not do the city loop.
and so we took the train to flinders and tried our luck there.
thank goodness we just made it in time through the confused signals from the platform and instructions from the train operators.
whew :)
at least our efforts for planning were not wasted. :)
and that's the whole gang of us, apart from james haha
 
got to belgrave, caught our tickets to lakeside and hopped on!
concession tickets! :D (so much cheaper hahaha)
  
off for the 12:30 train!
he really reminds me of the train person in thomas the toy engine series!
so cute!!
that bell really works btw. he really walks through the whole train from the back to the front ringing the bell.
haha
  
and that is us enjoying the scenary. i really like this photo haha
 
this was the last train we took back to belgrave! (miss it and we will be stuck in wherever we were for the day) coincidentally, it was this guy's last ride too! he was going to retire after this train ride. there were like gun shots/fireworks or smth when we came back. idk about the rest but when i didn't know what was going on, those sounds sounded like gunshots and i was pretty scared and thought then, 'shit man, australia has terrorists invading here at this time?!' 

thank goodness they were just giving a mini farewell party for this alan guy. 
*phew

brought them to classic indian curry thereafter and we had an awesome but very cheap dinner! haha 
i headed home after that as my home was a mess!!!
and i was tired too haha. 
they went to crowne casino to take a look
and that marks the end of 29 June! :D

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