The Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show

It has been a long day, which started off with our trip to the Flower & Garden show and ended with a little bit of Amazing Race drama at the end.

Anyway, this show was a program eyed by me since last year. It's a must see for me. I figured it's always nice to see lots of flowers apart from spring time, especially now that summer is over and autuum is getting full geared.

The show is staged within the Royal Exhibition Building and surrounding south of the charming Carlton Gardens in Carlton. We went with Kak Dayah & family on a 40 minutes bus ride from Waterdale.

The weather was quite cool, since it was raining yesterday. The show was excellent actually. Made you want to become a gardener...but I don't think so ;-). Saw Faliq & Amy, Tasha, Dili & Wawa . However, Kak Dayah didn't come across them. It showed how packed the place was.

Look ->

Packed to the rafters...

Carlton Garden (with some of the 70 plus exhibition stalls)

Some of the flowers at the show...

The Children enjoying themselves at the show

We spent almost 4 hours there. I was thinking of going back earlier, but the bus doesn't seem to be following its schedule to the letter on weekend. So slow... So we ended up praying Zohor at the Melbourne Museum, across the Royal Exhibition Building.

Finally hopped on the bus at 4.45 pm. Arrived around 5.30 pm. When we arrived at the front door, suddenly we realised that we left our knapsack in the bus. Arghhhh....the house key is in that bag! So off we go running after the bus 'Amazing Race Latrobe: Family Special' style. Road block - no cars available. So you now must use any other means of available transport to collect your bag at your next checkpoint, which would be Latrobe Private Hospital stop.

Hmmm...so we ended up borrowing Abg Fairuz's bicycle. We finally got the bag, with some drama thrown in. Well, let's just put this in perspective. You almost lost a bag containing the only set of keys to your house and after cycling like crazy and being edgy at the fact that you might not find that bag, and what with people there not being so helpful, tempers flared. Ibrahim even called the police..kuang..kuang..kuang. Anyway, when the right person in dealing with the matter arrived, everything was settled in less than 5 minutes. We got the bag back with the keys to our house intact. They could have done much better. What a bummer!

But the day for me is not over yet...have to make another stop tonight.