Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Easter Long Weekend - picture heavy

went with 2 girlfriends to melbourne for a long weekend.
we flew out in the morning on friday.
picked up a hire car, then drove to our hotel in St Kilda
we originaly booked at South Yarra but due to renovations they moved us to St Kilda
we ended up in a family room :D heaps of room
3 bedroom + 1 bathroom, living room & kitchen





next we went for a walk around town, looking for some sweet dessert wines
as well as abit of grocery shopping at 7 Eleven

then we headed to St Kilda Beach to have a look around

 funky door knobs lol

walked around the beach to the pier. it was fairly windy tho warm that day
about 30 degrees
 view from the pier

next stop Luna Park
very close to the beach
(i think our sydney one is slightly friendlier looking :P)




 then shopping on st kilda.. luckily the restaruants/shops were open
(public holiday easter friday)
 cute maniquins on the rooftop
 mmmmm.. cakes...


 our dessert for 2 nights :P



Next day, we had a full day tour to Morninton Peninsula.

7am: pick up from hotel
2 hours at Hot Spring
Wine Tasting
Lunch
Lavender garden/garden maze
Strawberry Picking
view point overlooking melbourne @ Arthurs Seat
got home at 6pm

we bought some wines :P mainly desert ones
































light dinner
Brighton Beach
we had a ball jumping around taking pics heheh







awesome colourful huts

we checked out chapel street, though not many shops were open since it was early
then we spent 5 hours in chadstone shopping hehe
then back to the airport to head home