Best Easter Break

at the nobbies on phillip island

With Our Rented Car

finally a day at home. need to rest and charge up my energy for the party tomorrow night. i'm so excited. pamplemousse at dempsey looks so beautiful, i can't wait to dine there, and i'm gonna go butter factory for the very first time!

so now, back to melbourne... this was during the september 2 weeks break. we decided to rent a car and drive up to dandenong mountains for a day. just to get out of the city that we're always in, and to have fun of course! thank god for ming de who is above 21 and has a driving license, if not we'll never be able to rent a car.
we kinda spent 2 hours traveling there as we got lost in the suburbs. thanks for google maps on our iphones and bbs. first stop on the mountains was pie in the sky, a place that sells very awesome pies, both sweet and savory. i had apple pie, while the rest had meat pies. they also sell so many other types of desserts! wait, never try the chocolate and caramel spider. spiders only taste good with fruits.

thereafter, we went up to sky high mount dandenong, i drove up there from pie in the sky. we were really high up that we could see the city from there. spot our flashy bright blue car that we rented.

we basically spent our time there walking and fooling around, enjoying the view and taking pictures!

drove down to miss marples, in hope of getting a table. sadly, they were fully booked and we had to wait for another 30 minutes. we couldn't do it as we had to return the car by 5pm. despite not having miss marples, we were still late in returning the car.

on our ride back! one driving, two sleeping, and me, camwhoring. :)

The Little Cottage

since trinity, i have always wanted to go to dandenong mountains to try their mouth watering scones sold at miss marples. i've heard so much about it from everyone who've tasted them, but just wasn't fated to make a trip up. the chance finally came last saturday. aunty kathy kindly offered to drive us girls up to miss marples for morning brunch.

the place was packed! full of locals and tourists. we had to wait for 45 minutes, and we did. meanwhile, we went over to a little shop called tealeaves, selling tealeaves (obviously) and teapots. haha, my mum collects teapots, so i managed to settle her birthday gift there. bet she'll be super happy when she receives them. siblings at home, don't say anything. thank you. :)

we all had fun browsing through teapots of different shapes and sizes. they were all so pretty that we couldn't decide what we wanted. rachel, cindy and i really contributed a lot to the shop's revenue. we spent 45 minutes in that shop, and when we got back, the table was ready! :)

love the english decor of the cottage. everything was so pretty, and there were flora prints everywhere! apparently, this tea room is named after an english actress who acted as a detective. i thought it was named after the owner or the person who baked those yummy scones.

these are really the best scones in the world, i'm totally not exaggerating. trust me, or you can travel all the way here to try them yourself. you won't regret it. personally, i don't really fancy scones. i feel that they are rather hard, very flour-ly, and not sweet at all. i hardly eat them, probably only once in a year. hence, i wasn't expecting that i will fall in love with them like how the others do. but i did. it was really so good. one scone was so filling!

mummy was so jealous cause she loves scones. i told her i'll drive her up here one day, and she said that i'm talking as though i'm some expert driver who owns a car. haha! HINT HINT mummy, i really wouldn't mind a very lousy second hand car to explore melbourne's suburbs. okay, i think i should only think about it once i find the time to do so. :)