Our brunch @ Miss Marples’ Tea Room was awesome!
We had another drive up the mountain top - Mount Dandenong! I simply love the views! Thank God for the sufficient time, we then hurried over with the help of GPS to for a ride on Puffing Billy Steam Train. It was a nice experience as we sat on the ChooChoo train with our legs out of the window. We would probably have better views if we have more time for a longer journey.
We returned the car, hurried back for a short rest before setting for a long walk to The University of Melbourne to support Jane at her graduation. It was a grand ceremony with chancellor, lecturers (all dressed up) others. Though there were many graduands but the ceremony was not that long or boring. 
A busy and packed day ended with us searching high and low for our dinner cum supper as the shops in Melbourne close pretty early. We eventually settled down with sandwiches from Subway and Korean cup noodles.16 Dec - an eventFUL and HOT HOT HOT day
We woke up pretty early as we have signed up for a day tour and got to catch the bus.
It was a loooooooong journey to our destination - Grampians National Park, 3hrs up up and 3hrs down down.
Throughout I really got to salute our female driver who drove for more than 6hrs (with just a few breaks), who drove verrrrrrry fast on a straight expressway and the curvy hills up and down. As I was at the window seat, I could actually see the bus at the edge of the mountain when she made those sharp turns - is like one mistake from her and our bus will go tumbling down.
We had many stops (included those we had our break) - we visited town of Beautfort, Halls Gap, among the trees to look for kangaroos, Bambruk Aboriginal Cultural Centre, Boroka Lookout, the Balconies, Mackenzie Falls, Jaws of Death etc.
One of the challenges throughout this entire day tour was THE WEATHER! It was sooooooo hot where we constantly had to do the “Aussie Waves” aka shooing the flies. Another would be climbing 200 steps down and 200 steps up for the view of Mackenzie Falls - problem not on the legs actually but it was the air that made us hard to breathe.
Unlike many others who was soundly asleep throughout the ENTIRE or even half of the journey, I was enjoying myself looking out of the window for the beautiful scenery (the cloud especially) and of course enjoying the fast roller-car ride. Haha! I only went into dreamland on our way back to the city.
Our long day ended with a delicious Korean cuisine and followed by the delicious ice-cream (it was long queue when we went there) for dessert, our last night @ Melbourne so definitely must have another taste on the delicious ice-cream.17 Dec - we started the day with breakfast and shop @ Queen Victoria Market. I had “borek”, something like chicken pie and is really nice!
We had another delicious brunch @ a HK style restaurant before we had a quick shop @ DFO and in the city. After two HOT HOT days, the cooooold weather back!
We left Melbourne to Singapore in the evening. Was “selected” to take the Business Class and it was … … FANTASTIC!
Light snack before the plane takes off, solid appetizer, delicious main course, abundance of juice/wine, many choices of fruit/bread, pretty dessert, chocolate from Godiva!
Spacious space, comfortable seat with massage, 180dg bed, big LCD tv with big headset, special treatment, quality freebies given etc etc.
18 Dec - miss Melbourne! Haha!
Jetlag? Was so tired that I spent it on sleeping sleeping and sleeping.
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