We took a bus from Pacific Fair to Sea World...by the time we reached, it was almost 1pm...we bought an 'escape pass'... cost AUD120 which grants entry to 2 out of 3 parks and lasts for 3 days...saved us AUD 20...we had a quick lunch of pies...then took the Sea World monorail that goes around the park...then we went to watch the 'Imagine' dolphin show...it was amazing...i suddenly wished i studied marine biology instead...then i would have been able to be a dolphin handler...would love to spend a whole day swimming and playing with them...dolphins are such enchanting creatures...so smiley..so smart...so friendly...
Then we moved on to check out the penguins...and then the rays...patted a few rays...they're quite slimy and soft..and no, i didn't get stung...apparently not all rays are sting rays...there were also the sharks...some which were quite huge...then it was time for the sea lion show...which was titled 'Buddy and Claude, the fish detectives'...pretty entertaining...but i think dolphins are still my favourite..after that, we went to see the polar bears...i always imagine that they'll be really white..but i guess in the absence of snow, they get dirty easily..so they just looked kinda beige-y...
There was this 3D PLanet SOS show which we watched...Flora said it was similar to the one she saw in Bangkok...except that the one in Bangkok had more effects...we then took the Skyway cable car to get a bird's eye view of the whole place..next, we checked out the Jet Rescue, which is a Jetski roller coaster...Flora went first..coz we had to take turns to look after our bags...it was quite exhilirating...screamed my lungs out...but i kept my eyes open the whole time..and i didn't puke after that..hehe...there was the 'corkscrew' which we didn't dare to ride...there wasn't time anyway coz the rides close at 5pm...we hurried to make some pressed pennies..got myself one with a dolphin imprint..
So we took a bus back to Pacific Fair where we took the bus straight back to Tweed Heads..we reached there about 6.40pm...went to Woolworths to stock up on breakfast and frozen dinners...thought we'd manage to catch the 6.58pm bus back to Cabarita Beach..but apparently we missed it by 2 mins...bloody hell, it wasn't even 6.58pm yet..the bus left early...so since it was another hour before the next (and last) bus, we went back into Tweed Centro to use the bathroom..we went in via Woolworths..when we came out, the door back to Woolworths was locked..it closes at 7pm...dang! so we had to look for other exits..eventually found one which exited into the garbage collection area...crap!
So we waited for the last bus back to Cabarita Beach...it was cold..and we ate strawberries as we waited...finally we got onto the last bus back...by then we were quite tired..and we dozing off in the bus...we didn't realized we missed our stop...and apparently the bus driver didn't realize we didn't know where we were stopping..i guess the surroundings looked different at night...i only realized that we might have missed our stop when i saw the Cudgera Creek sign..i asked Flora and she said no, she didn't think we missed our stop..eventually the bus driver asked us again where we wanted to stop..and he said that Cabarita Beach was back there where he dropped a guy off..dang!! the bus driver let us down at Hastings Point..shit!! that's like about 5km walk back...but since there was no more bus that night, we had to grit our teeth against the cold and walk back to our apartment...took us about 1/2 hour of walking in the dark to get back...thought i saw a shooting star along the way...well, it was probably wishful thinking...just trying to make myself feel less miserable...anyway, thank God nothing bad happened...
When we finally made it back to our apartment, we were just so cold and hungry and miserable that we decided that we'd heat up the hawaiian pizza for dinner..which was more like a supper since it was over 10pm...dinner was good..although the base was as usual slightly burnt...after a nice warm shower...i curled into bed and read a little...till i dozed off due to exhaustion...what a day huh?
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