Showing posts with label shopping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shopping. Show all posts

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Girls day out

While Ethan was not home for 2 nights, Krystina and her Mum went to Brisbane's Queens St Mall planning to do some christmas shopping and just to spend the day together in the city.

We took the bus, because taking the car to the city is expensive and finding a car park is like looking for trouble. We got off at the bus terminal and followed the passengers as we didn't know where is the exit (the bus stopped somewhere underground the building bus terminal).

We looked around the shopping windows and searched for bargains. Krystina enjoyed smelling the perfumes and collecting sample sprays inside the Myers perfumes booths. Next, we tried the shoes, but all the ones with nice designs were too big for Krystina.

On the 4th floor, near the the kids sections, a free train ride to Santa's village was offering a visit to Santa and photographs, etc. She joined the queue and a few minutes of waiting she's on her train ride sessions. The train goes for 3 rounds each session.

Then it was lunch time, so we some lunch and went outside the shops and found there was a circus that was about to start in 10 minutes. Krystina found a good spot, and settled herself.

At about 2.30, she wanted to go the library and registered for the summer reading club. She also played in the 'Corner' with other children and wrote a letter to santa and drop it in the free letter box to Santa.

At around 5pm, Dad called that he's picking us up and we'll all going home.


Circus performers


Lady acrobat in the trapeze


Another balancing act


The only child performer in the group


Inside the Myer's, photo with the gold reindeer


And a free train ride around Santa's village.


And of course with the christmas tree.

Wednesday, July 04, 2007

Dora and the Kids

After a 10 minutes of queing to have photos taken with Dora, Krystina and Ethan looked tired and no smiles on their faces.

Dora was one of the guests of the newly opened Underwood Market (this is not a wet market, it's a mall) last month. There were heaps of prizes given away and loads of balloons and lollies. Cafe's and fast food chains were on 10 - 30% discounts and all retail shops have sales of up to 50% off.

Every 30 minutes they have tickets given away for free and drawn on the spot.With all our tickets only Krystina have won a jewelry gift voucher worth $25.