Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Chelonia - Day 13 (10 Oct) Shopping at Colombo and departure!

Woke up at 6am today...had a shower, pack up watever is left, some final clean up, then wait for the 20-seater bus to cpme pick us up...for the first time in sri lanka...the bus actually arrived half an hour early!!! Wow...

Said our final goodnye to our landlady, mdm kalyani, amd family...savani actually din go to sch so that she can bid us farewell!!! Took some photos...then off we go...along the super long Galle Rd to Colombo...to do some last minute shopping b4 we head for the airport...

First stop...Barefoot Gallery (www.barefootgallery.com)...where u can get plenty of souvenirs esp woven clothings and other woven stuff like bags and even stuffed toys!!!!

After shopping, we went for lunch...some went to KFC to try their briyani, while the rest of us just ate at one of their shops...like m'sia's nasi kandar shop...had chicken briyani with additional mutton, cuttlefish and prawn...dessert was mixed fruit float...mixed fruit in syrup...then instead of ice-cream, we think they put curd...it was quite yummy actually ;)

After lunch, on the way back to Barefoot we dropped by DSI...their local version od Bata...hehe...a lot of us bought slippers there...Merey wanted to get a pair of new sandals for Reef since he lost one side at the beach yest...but dun think he's interested...he prefer to be carried?

Next stop...Crescat...hmm...not sure I spell correctly or not...
Anyway, it's a shopping centre with a supermarket at the basement...this is where we bought our tea...from a shop called Batik...bought tea for my various bosses and my parents...then headed down to the supermarket pharmacy to attempt to get some steroid/antibiotic cream...as expected...managed to get it w/o any hassle....hmm...that's not good...wonder wat kind of resistant bug may have infected my mosquito bites....oh well...

Then...it's our last shopping stop...Odel...most expensive one too...
First we had Gelato there...yummy...where Reef had a fun time keeping the staff there busy...haha...we just keep our mouth busy with gelato...dun need to worry abt him so much...
Odel is a pretty big departmental store with lotsa branded items...I only bought a souvenir t-shirt there...the rest of the time was spent playing with Reef when he's not in the children's play area...

After Odel it's time for dinner at this chinese restaurant recommended by engwan...where we r finally gg to have our sri lankan crab...yoohoo! Engwan also ordered stewed pork with preserved vege...as it's their special...our first non-halal dish...sorry, zul..
Other dishes we ordered were...3 soups..tomyam, hot n sour, salted vege n toufu...roasted chicken, some mushroomy dish...err..can't remember wat else...wasn't feeling too good by then...and was busy entertaining Reef too ;p

After dinner, we went to hotel juliana where some of us..or was it me only...took a shower...then I cleaned up all my mosquito bites...applied my steroid/antibiotic cream...the Hang chong came along asking whether anyone wants to use the internet...$1 per half hour...we have less than half an hour left b4 we have to go to the airport...might as well have a preview of my email...see how busy i'll be when I get back...hehe...

At the airport, we checked in immediately...too many bags liao...dun want to lug ard...although there r some shops there where we can do somemore last minute shopping...or just use up our rupees..

In the end, I had too much rupees left 'cos the DFS only accepts USD!!! But there was a donation box for tsunami victims at the transit lounge...decided to get rid of our rupees there...hehe ;)

By the time I got onto the plane...I was rather feverish liao...ended up sleeping the whole journey...din even wake up for meals...just got a cup of warm water...then zzzzz...luckily there were extra seats...so I slept on two seats...sorry, sweeyin...took up the whole of the center seat :p

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