Wednesday 6th Dec

-----------Shop the City
The Treasure Hunt
Christmas Art Launch x George Rose
The Sequin Station
Glitter Gift Grab

What a day! Being high on the musical last night I barely slept and crashed in the afternoon. Coffee doesn't make me feel good, feverish and like a zombie.



8.50am Treasure Hunt! Normally the line's much longer and sold out if you get there at the time we did. Though the prizes aren't as good this year. The best one was free laser tag (the one I didn't collect), a burger (yay! food) and Review $20 giftcard (only if you're a review fan). Over the years it has been going down, so I'm ok if we miss it.



There was no chance of winning the snapchat comp as the clue was reflective light on the ground, the floor said it wasn't the newly refurbished level, but that's all I got. $800 worth of candy.



First 50 in line got a makeup bag, well you had to come back next year to collect it which was odd, not an instant prize. There was a live art painting, and it would be made into makeup bags. That's pretty cool and costly! These are the events I love, the spend all the money parties. 


You got 15mins to get to the other side of the mall, buy a bag (on hold) then 7mins to go up 3 levels. 11am was the deadline, if you spent $50 before then you get a free breakfast. 

Next we made the mistake of going to lunch far from the center, and not getting there early... whoops. Had sushi, it was good but not amazing. Need to get the crispy chicken next time.

Down to the office, crashing...I had hope to keep going but we were also out of water...

Up at 6pm, Boost then up to the mall. Turns out you had to book for the flower workshop NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! no one told me... and of course it was sold out. I was hoping to do it in the evening, so I wouldn't have to carry it around all day. The lines for hot dogs were too long, so we skipped that. An hour lines are standard. 




Glitter Gift Grab! Have you seen that game where you're in a box with $$ flying all around you? This is it! 40min lines. .
.
Prizes are mainly 2 for 1 pancake parlour short stacks, plantation cookies. A girl won a t-shirt and I won a movie ticket! The biggest prize is a $50 gift voucher. .



Crazy dashes. Went to one Kikki K location, the calligrapher had moved onto the next location, so we went there but there were no cookies. The first location had cookies, the second custom gift tags. So we ran back to the first and got that cookie! Also a diary for next year (planned purchase).






Over to the bling/bejeweled station we bag tag bejeweled by @imakestagram. We thought doing the entire bag was overkill XD Only cause it's bigger than A4 though. I regret not bringing a plain notebook or something to bejewel. People did sunglasses (cheap ones) and a lot of clothing, one person got her asthma puffer bejeweled!


Last stop Emporium, for a toffee apple. By this time it was like 9pm and the lines was only 10mins long, yay! Though hot dogs were closed by then. It's ok.








Absolute last stop before missing two trains and dropping by both supermarkets, was ice cream at Calia! Fior di latte, a light creamy quality vanilla. $4-something. I do love single serve tubs of vanilla ice cream. 


Crashing all the way home, we had a good time. Missed out on a few things, but had fun still. And I did it all my way - solo. 

0 comments | Leave a comment

Make pictures XL^ Monday---4th Dec













Lunching at Hakata Chicken Ramen. 3-5pm is Happy Hour. $17 for an entree, drink and ramen. We're seated at the singles bar, with kitchen views. It was good but I prefer bankara, I feel as though a pork broth has more depth. The egg was over what I would have preferred too. 



0 comments | Leave a comment

Monday 4th Dec




Tuesday





We saw Book of Morman tonight and it was awesome!! The main guy had changed, but it was just as awesome. The second guy looked more like the original one with the hair and shape.

Wednesday

Shop the City

What a day! Being high on the musical last night I barely slept and crashed in the afternoon. Coffee doesn't make me feel good, feverish and like a zombie more like.


Crashing all the way home, we had a good time. Missed out on a few things, but had fun still. And I did it all my way - solo. 

Friday

Takeaway from The Grand Tofu. 


We had the 'Prawn Dumpling Egg Noodle Soup' $12 with five yellow-skinned wonton style dumplings. The was where most of the flavour was, think we also needed a chili sauce to dip into. So other than the soup it was bland, but it was comforting?


Tomorrow's lunch 'Ipoh Curry Chicken Dry Noodle' $13 

Saturday

What a day! Shopping, hunting down clues (got them all but one!), going up and down the street a couple times, and dinner. It's longer than it seemed. 

Two Christmases ago we lived in Camberwell, two blocks off the main street uphill.



After Review we went to Suzaran. Oh how I miss the boarding houses, so close to the trams and station. I sure as hell don't miss the people though. 



My Favourite Shops


Suzran Japanese - not cheap, but they have great snacks and ingredients, also ice cream!

Beyond Homewares - fake flowers and things those asian shops sell

Yellow Sign Asian Homewares Shop  - near pepperoni and subway on the right going down towards the junction. Gift bargain store next to framing

Fresh fruit - tram straight to Prahran market

I love that we had local mall shops like sportcraft, witchery, the body shop and kikki k

There were $10 lunch offers in town, our favourites were curry camp and kopan Korean

One of the things I miss most was Optus, great local store that wasn't busy and much friendlier than the city 

Sunday


Not sure where the pictures went for this one...

Rooftop yoga! A first, the yoga. I prefer dinner parties on my roof :P
Was it fun? lol no. I have no strength...


Brunching at Billy's Central at Melbourne Central, we've been to the Flagstaff location and loved it! How was it? Check out our review coming up soon.

0 comments | Leave a comment

Previous Posts ~ More Recent Posts