Saturday, January 30, 2010

Christmas Outing

By Shankly Chiew

During the Christmas break, my family took a 3 day trip to Albury-Wodonga, the twin cities bordering Victoria and NSW. The trip is about 300km from where we live. We set off on the 27th December.

We did a stopover in a smallish town called Glenrowan. Glenrowan is now a tourist attraction, no less due to the infamous Ned Kelly, who made the place his last stand. We had a great lunch there with a Ned Kelly themed cafe. The cafe had friendly service with good seats and most importantly, great food. I had a beef with gravy roll while Paisley had nuggets and chips. My parents and Shi Mun shared a zucchini slice thingy which I tried which was delicious! We also had a look at Ned Kelly museum.

Our arrival at Wodonga pleased many of us especially me after that long and hard ride. We had a look around at the vicinity then went for a little shopping and retired to our cabin for the rest of the sweltering afternoon. Soon, it was time for our dinner and being tired, our mum didn’t want to cook. We drove out to Albury and ate at a Chinese restaurant.

The next day, we woke up early and got ready for our trip to the Wonga Wetlands. Unfortunately, it was closed! So our trip up there had resulted in nothing. Next, we were supposed to go to the Albury Art Gallery but guess what? It was closed too! So we moved our schedule up and watch a movie. We decided to split up with my father, my sister and I watching Avatar in 3D. My baby sister and my mum watched Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakel. After that, we went to a park and played around and went home for our second night sleep.

On the last day, we packed up our things and checked out, but not before we made a few other stops, like the visiting a bakery with the world’s biggest rolling pin, spending time at the Albury Library, visiting Lake Hume and its dam, and a memorial for WW1 called Monument Hill Reserve.

The trip was really pleasant for me and I really hope I can go again, but this time more relaxing and less bustling about going to different places.