We arrived at Melbourne airport at about 8 plus in the morning. And God once again answered all our prayers because we ended up skipping all the super long queues and got through the customs very quickly.
Before our trip, I made a booking for transportation from the airport to Knox. I played it safe by booking for the 12 noon bus so we ended up having a long wait after we got through the customs…

I really need to learn not to look so awkward when take a self shot!!!

Mummy reporting our safe arrival…

The journey from the airport to Knox was pretty eventful. Cherise pooped a major one about 15 mins into the journey so we were super “kan cheong” about it. What if she gets uncomfortable and start crying? How do we change her diaper without causing any inconvenience to the other passengers? WHERE can we change her diaper? Will the others smell it if we don’t change? Well…before I could worry any further, Cherise fell asleep all the way to Knox so we didn’t have to struggle with the mess till we got to the serviced apartment.
Praise God indeed.

Punthill Knox was a welcoming place, it’s located just a stone’s throw away from Knox City where the mall is. We managed to get pretty good rates for our 1 bedroom apartment via the net. They even provided a baby cot/playpen free of charge. We like the fact that the property is just a few months old cos’ everything is brand new and so clean.

This is the view from the door.

The kitchenet…it is very very well equipped.

Another look at the living room…

The bedroom…our only complain is that they don’t have a room with a king sized bed…

Cherise in her play pen. We actually requested for a baby cot but this was what we got…which was a good thing anyway cos’ Cherise really enjoyed playing by herself in it…for a while at least.

We didn’t stay long in the apartment though cos’ we were getting hungry and we couldn’t wait to check out Knox City. So off we went, but not before we make sure that Cherise was adequately “insulated”…

Thank God Jas insisted that we bring the wind shield, the wind was so strong that it literally swept her (Jas, not Cherise) off her feet momentarily. And REALLY thank God that we brought this stroller instead of the Combi…I can almost gurantee that it’ll fly off with Cherise in it.

She’s like a little “char siew bao” ha ha…ok I admit that the beanie was probably a little bit too much lah…

Knox City was huge, probably the size of Ngee Ann City (I think…). It’s kinda like a town centre for the community in that area so you can basically get everything that you need there. Makes it difficult to decide what to eat cos’ you are spoilt for choice. Puts Bukit Panjang Plaza to shame ha ha. We decided to leave most of our shopping to the next day cos’ we were really quite beat from the journey. Lucky for us we got back just in time cos’ it started to pour really heavily after that (we were warned of a thunder storm that day).

The best part of that day was when we met up with Mum and Auntie Pat (aka Ah Yee Mummy) later in the evening. The main reason why we decided to stay at Knox instead of the city was because it was near Eve’s place. So they brought us over to see Ken, Eve precious little Kate at their home, Jo was there too. Sorry I didn’t take any pictures of their home but believe me when I say that their estate was so beautiful that it made us want to just sell everything here and go live there. We were so caught up with catching up that we forgot to take pictures!!! Anyway, they wanted to bring us to this pan cake place at Glen Waverly but the storm knocked out the power at the area so we ended up eating at a chinese restaurant instead.

The following day was a full day of shopping at Knox City, lucky for us (or rather Jas) it was late night shopping at Knox so we managed to comnplete most of our shopping there. The rest of the family joined us there as well so it really a great time of catching up.

Cherise and her ‘Xiao Gu”.

Cherise and Auntie Pat who is her God-grandma…

The playful Nai Nai and Xiao Gu.

We enjoyed Knox so much that we decided to cut short our stay at Kyneton later and came back. Well…there was also another reason but I’ll leave that for part 3.