Pancakes, Shaved Ice and Kangaroo

Today is our last day in Sydney. :(
We slept in and woke up close just after 10am. What a luxury lol. We decided that we would take it easy and just hit some of the places we have been before.

Armed with our family day monorail pass, we first went to Darling Harbour's Harbourside Shopping Centre where we had our brunch at Pancakes on The Rocks. It is similar to Pancake Parlour, my favourite restaurant in Brisbane and Melbourne. :) Marieann had a Short Stack (two pancakes) with ice cream and maple syrup (A$6.95). Juliane was ravenous and had a Ned Kelly (from the kids menu): a buttermilk pancake with whipped butter, scrambled egg and bacon (A$5.95)and ordered sides of grilled pineapple (A$0.95) and grilled banana (A$1.50). I wanted something light and had a Seafood Crepe (A$15.95): fish, prawns, scallops, mushrooms, and spring onions in a creamy white wine sauce served with hollandaise sauce and seafood sauce and salad. All dishes were absolutely delicious lol. :) When we left at 12.30pm, there was a long queue! Proves how popular Pancakes on The Rocks is.




However, there is always room for dessert. We went to Paddy's Market, back to The Meeting Point, the Taiwanese restaurant for Taiwanese Traditional Shaved Ice (A$10.80) with toppings of coconut jelly, mini rice balls and taro balls. Cold dessert in winter. Nice and refreshing! :)


Light rail at Paddy's Market

After dessert, we proceeded to Pitt Street Mall for our "exercise" lol. The girls spent close to 2 hours shopping for their clothes at Westfield Sydney. Around 5pm, we went to JB Hi-Fi to look at my BD discs. After an hour of hunting through the discs, I finally bought True Blood Season 3 and Resident Evil 4 for myself and How to Train Your Dragon for the girls. :) It took time to choose the discs as I had to make sure that the discs are all Regions (A, B & C) before I could buy them. There were PLENTY of discs selling at A$30 for 2, new titles too(!) but they were all Region B unfortunately. :(

Interior of Strand Arcade

Night view of Pitt Street Mall

We went back to Darling Harbour for dinner lol. When we were walking along the stretch of Harbourside Shopping Centre's restaurants facing Cockle Bay, we saw that there was a Jazz & Blues Festival. There were people crowding round the stage and enjoying the performances in the cold crisp winter night. We went to Plate Restaurant (one of the restaurants on my restaurant list lol) for dinner. Both girls had Kidz Fish and Chips (A$8.00) and I had Kangaroo Fillet served with potato and bacon in red wine sauce (A$26.80). Having kangaroo meat on the last night was a nice finish to my Sydney trip. :)

Jazz & Blues Festival


The girls looking at Cockle Bay and Imax



We went to Coles supermarket to have a last browse before we went back to the hotel. After our showers, I packed our luggage while the girls watched television. Good thing that I brought an extra carrier lol. :P

TRUE HOLIDAY!

My best friend, Min and her family were fantastic. They went about their usual Saturday activities while letting me sleep in! I only woke up at 12noon!! This is what a TRUE HOLIDAY should be haha. :P Sleep in and do nothing!
Well, I did wake up briefly at 7.30am. Once a mother, always a mother. You will know when there is a child in the room. Josh came to my room in the morning, trying to get dressed as Min had left with Ben for his sports activities. Without many words between us, I helped him out. He left the room and I went right back to sleep. It was only later in the day that Min and Graham found out I had helped Josh. Oops sorry. It was faster to help him than to have him take his time in dressing lol. :P

Min came home with Josh after his swimming and she made us smoked salmon with avocado sandwiches for lunch. It was so darn delicious!! I should make them when I return to Singapore. :P We also had more time to chit-chat about our lives while deciding what to do on Sunday.

Dinner was the highlight of the day!! Min bought my favourite meat - kangaroo meat and Graham barbecued them. There was marinated roo meat, roo fillet, roo bangas and there was enough roo meat for 3 persons and it was all for me, me ME!! :) I was so happy eating roo meat and was really stuffing myself FULL. :) Have to since I can't get roo meat in Singapore. Graham remarked he has never seen a small person eat so much before hahaha. :P

The uncooked roo meat!

The barbecued roo, beef and lamb together with pasta salad. Yummy home cooked food!