08.09 am – Woke up to move the car from the streets to a car park.
09.59 am – Began our day.
10.09 am – Arrived at ACMI in Federation Square.
The big screen tv where
I can see myself.
The sign.
The sliding door.
Lining up to get tickets.
Got ourselves a cheaper double pass ticket for the Tim Burton Exhibition in ACMI and European Masters in NGV.
The bat mobile.
Tim Burton’s “Balloon Boy”.
10.30 am – And then we entered the normal ACMI exhibit before entering the Tim Burton exhibit.
The games lab.
An area where you can find all the game consoles throughout the years.
Remember Lemmings?
You can still play it today in Flash.
The generation 1 Xbox.
Nintendo Famicom control.
My favourite childhood video game.
Joysticks.
Felix the cat.
A slide projector.
Slides.
A coin slot machine where you can see stuff.
Empty film reels.
A projector.
Another old type of projector.
Felix the cat again.
Actors and actresses of those days.
Charlie Chaplin.
A super old antique tv that still works.
A horn.
Astro boy.
Star Wars.
Still black and white.
A space helmet?
Shadow monster??
I tried making one out of my shadows and
it worked! You could hear growls coming out of the ‘mouths’.
Nintendo NES and a Super MArio Bros. 3 game catrdge.
Super mario catridge in a Nintendo 64.
The initial conception of Toy Story.
Lara Croft in Tomb Raider.
Looked into a hole by the wall and saw a slide.
Satellite.
Another slide projector.
Costume used in a movie.
Aboriginal works.
The touchscreen information circle.
Ty The Tasmanian Tiger Zoetrope.
At a glance, it looked like any normal clay figurine carousel.
The jumping ducks.
The frog and chicken.
But when it starts moving and the lights start blinking,
This is what you’ll see.
The car used in Mad Max.
Pictures.
Who’s this?
An Academy Award trophy.
The 3 round private movie stations.
Toy Story 3.
The cartoon and it’s images.
The entrance to Tim Burton’s exhibition where no pictures were allowed to be taken. Inside we saw lots of props used in Tim Burton’s movies like the real costume used in Batman, Alice in Wonderland, etc.
06.43 am – Woke up super early today for a long ass drive along Melbourne’s famous Great Ocean Road along the coast.
Managed to catch the last few minutes of the final world cup match between Netherlands and Spain.
Tears of joy from the man of the match who scored the winning goal for Spain.
07.21 am – All packed and ready to go.
07.42 am – Hit the freeway with Melbourne CBD behind us.
The speed limit where you could see almost every car moving at the same speed.
Melbourne authorities take their traffic’s speed limit seriously. If it’s 80 km/h and you drive at 81 km/h, you’re gonna get summoned for sure.
Sunrise behind.
Driving away from the sun.
08.32 am – 1st driver of the very, very long day.
Feels weird driving with a sweater on.
Pictures of the road taken along the way to Port Campbell.
09.02 am – Leslie, the 2nd driver, took over.
09.31 am – Reached Colac.
Our strategy for driving Melbourne’s Great Ocean Road was to start from the end, which is Port Campbell. That way, we’ll be nearer to home when we’re done.
It has been 2 hours.
Spain’s biggest fan sleeping all the way.
Fields of cows.
Without Daniel‘s Garmin Nuvi, this trip wouldn’t be possible. Thanks, dude!
10.33 am – Arrived in Port Campbell.
First thing we did was to fill up the car.
10.42 am – Found Room Six, the highly recommended restaurant in Port Campbell that does breakfast, lunch, dinner.
Parked our car and walked to Room Six.
I thought of sitting outside where the sun was but it was also VERY COLD.
It was still breakfast hour.
Day specials written on the board at the top of the bar counter.
Rows of wine.
The kitchen.
Picture on the wall.
Tables.
Found ourselves a table.
Sat down and started
ordering.
First, my hot tea came.
Then Soo Yee’s hot chocolate.
Soo Yee’s Brekkie Special. VERY HUGE.
Then mine came.
DAMN. SUCH A HUGE BURGER!
SOOOOOOOOOOOOO BIGGGGG
The left over chips. I was already crazy full by the time I finished the burger.
Vivian and Leslie were smarter as they shared a plate of pizza.
Even then, they couldn’t finish it. The food portions in Room Six were just awesome.
Daises outside.
Enjoying ourselves.
12.00 pm – Hopped into the car and continued our journey.
