imyinwonderland: Our Family Trip, Melbourne Part 4

It's All About Family Fun~Phillip Island

7. Our 2 nights @ Phillips Island

We bought our passes in advance so we will be visiting Koala Conservation Centre, The Penguin Parade, Churchill Island Heritage Farm, Panny's Chocolate Factory and A Maze'N Things. Yes, all these were planned for my G. But we were quite excited too haha especially the Penguin Parade! It's our highlight of the trip! ... But ever since we reach Phillips Island it was raining heavily, almost nonstop. That spoiled some of our plans...

Koalas - Most famous animal ambassador of Australia

We were quite excited to see koalas at first and silly I thought we could carry the koala and take photos at the Koala Conservation Centre. Anyway, it was drizzling and we could only spot a few koalas. All of them were in their classic post - hug tree and snooze. They were all quite high up so we could only see gray furry balls.. Till we met this...

Koalas spend much of their time resting in order to conserve energy to compensate for their low energy diet.

Getting excited because we had been walking around and spot nothing much :(

A Maze'N Things - A Wacky Wacky Day

This is probably one of those places where your cool teenage son or daughter doesn't want to be associated with and anyone found touring in would be labelled Geek. But yet, we had a fun time inside Hahaha ... x___x"

This place is about illusion rooms, mazes, rotating rooms and a highest indoor vertical slide (not for the faint hearted me (*__*). One of the staff met us and wanted to perform a magic for G. He asked Daddy to step into a little mirror room and asked G to say the magical words to make Daddy disappear. G followed and Tada Abracadabra makes her dearest Daddy gone! G was almost in tears! And the staff quickly reverses the spell and G says the magical words again with lots of Love ... Abracadabra Daddy please come back... I love you! Tada! The childish Daddy is back again and my little G of course had her smile back ... hahaha ... Haiz... Will she tear if Mommy is gone? Anyway, here are some other things that we did...

Look @ Daddy!

What's Today's Special huh?

OMG...

Of course we wanted to be on the menu too! ; P

And our little G became a Giant G!

We tried the maze, it was quite fun!

Cutie G starts to show interest in this kind of things Haha~

Panny's Chocolate Factory - The Sweetest Visit

Sometimes I wish we could have a chocolate factory in SG (do we have? Sorry I didn't bother to check) so that we can visit as and when and munch delicious samples there. I have some high expectations on taste because it's direct from factory (I don't know why I had that logic ). Also because I enjoy the chocolates in my last US trip so much (it's already 2 years ago!) Hmmmm delicious Ghirardeli squares added in milk to make the delish chocolatey milk... yumz...

Panny's chocolate didn't win me over. But I do enjoy the visit playing the chocolate games and collecting the chips for surprise gift!

We totally skipped Churchill Island Heritage Farm due to the non stop rain. We decided that because it would be too harsh for G to go under the rain for the whole day and get sick. Importantly we do not want to miss the penguin parade!

The World Famous Penguin Parade (in the Rain)

Yes, we were waiting for cute little birds to come home at sunset, in the rain. Poor G, was all drenched. Luckily, I had bought a raincoat for her at the Target Store that afternoon.

By the way, no photos allowed. This is because, the penguins eyes are too sensitive to light and sudden flash can frighten or disorientate them. To see the penguins coming home in colonies, was quite amazing! But I was hoping they can walk past our legs haha...

First time I allow G to stay in the rain for such long period!

Our accommodation in Phillip Island - Ramada Resort

This is one of the better stay we had for our trip, definitely worth to mention.

Our Ramada Resort is a 2 bedroom cottage style with full kitchen facilities, outdoor deck setting and full laundry facilities. Best of all, we can drive our car right up to the door step, so convenient! Everything is clean and well maintain, so comfortable just like at home. I can strongly recommend for family stay on Phillip Island. View here for more information http://www.ramadaphillipisland.com.au/accommodation/.

As restaurants closed as early as 4pm, we decided to head down to Coles to buy our food for dinner. Also because our dear G had been craving for white rice! This will definitely satisfy her :P