Come out, we won't eat you

Day 3 - Come out, we won't eat you.

We woke up a little later this day, since the places we were going weren't as far as the Great Barrier Reef. It was a bus ride to Kuranda and an hour plus of souvenier shopping. It was quite a nice place to be at, with a relaxed, homey kind of feel to the place. That feeling made you feel just perfectly comfortable to be there. Except for the price of drinks.

I didn't pick much up, and mostly window-shopped through the whole thing. I still remember some things from that place, like how we thought there was actually a petting zoo, the fake snake box, the funny funny statue that we took so many photos with, and how my hand was strangely just as smooth as Ms Yeo's after she went do the free hand scrub.

We met up later at the meeting place and our first stop was the koala park. It's kind of weird though, since I only saw koalas once, but anyway. The crocodiles weren't all that special, since they're seen in almost every zoo. The snake cage was quite cool, seeing as to how they actually are allowed to climb anywhere, and they actually were no less than 1 metre away from us, for those who remember the snake who went on top of the small display cage.

We were also quite lucky as the koalas happened to be awake for a short moment when we were there, allowing for some photos of them while they were moving. I make it sound like a big thing, but hey, they're only awake three hours a day. But still, the most amazing, enchanted experience there was the wallabies.

There was an area where you were allowed to enter and had an unlimited supply of wallaby food from a bucket, and you just fed them if you like. I took a handful, crawled to a spot where there were 20 wallabies at least crowding up to hide in the shade, and reached out. Then I waited. Waited. Waited. Ignored the smell. Waited. Waited. I was a little tired, but refused to give up. It was after some time when one sleepy little wallaby hopped over and curiously sniffed at my hand, before slowly chewing them up piece by piece (The food, not my hand). I was delighted, and let him continue, patting him happily.

That moment was good enough for me, but for Jia Teck, it was a whole new experience altogether. He was one of the first to feed the wallabies, and picked one young one to start with. I was watching him earlier, but decided to try it out for myself. After some time when I returned, I found Jia Teck sitting right beside the wallaby, feeding 2 at the same time. He looked just like them.

After that, we went to some river cruise cum tour on a boat, which was frankly boring, with most of us sleeping on the way back. The only interesting part was how much the driver looked like Sean Connery, and boy was he proud of it.

The lunch at the cafe was okay, and I watched as Iris and Shuqi got their comical caricature done. Come to think of it, I should have gotten one for myself too. It looked really cool when it was completed. Oh well.

The next stop after that was the Skyrail. This was probably the craziest part of the day. It started with them asking us to split into groups of 6 for each cable car. Gillian, Sara, Tong Wei, Jia Teck and me were talking to each other about the Aussie slang book (heh heh) and we formed a group of 5. We needed one adult (I think) and we happened to be actually considered children and paid half price. So we got Xingqi to be our "adult" for the ride.

This is where the fun starts. Xingqi was mocking at how we were considered Children while he's already a full grown Adult, while we fought back saying that we only had to pay half the price (Although all costs were covered by the tour, but who cares). It was after a short while when we started calling Xingqi our father, who happened to be taking his 5 children out to the Skyrail.

Bam, and there you have it. A family of 6 born in a skyrail just like that. Xingqi the father, Gillian the oldest, followed by me, Tong Wei, Sara then our youngest sister/brother, Jia Teck. The rest of the ride was simply crazy fun as we screamed at every interval when the Skyrail made loud noises, took a few family group photos, and coming up with a failure of a ghost story.

I guess we all felt quite sad (well not really) about the ride ending, but were rewarded with a spectacular view of Cairns as we descended towards the bottom. When we landed, the attendant there told us to smile as there was a camera that will take a picture of us in the Cable Car. Thus, at a price of $10 each, our true blue official 全家福 was born.