Hj. Ahmad: THE GREAT ESCAPE: DAY 2 - PERTH

Setiba kembali ke kawasan train Cannington, kami dapati rupanya tiada perkhidmatan teksi ataupun bus yang melalui kawasan penginapan kami dari stesen train ini. Makanya kami bertanyakan kepada polis bantuan train yang ada ketika itu dan diberi tanda tunjuk arah. So we decided to walk to our house. Hampir 2 kilometer berjalan sebelum sampai di tempat penginapan. Perjalanan tersebut tidak lah memenatkan memandangkan cuaca di Perth pada ketika itu agak sejuk.

Still remember Kak Mah and I brisk walking yesterday evening? Well, it served us great. Kami ingat laluan ke tempat penginapan kami menggunakan pengalaman semalam. Way finding or Global Positioning System (GPS) kami very effective. Heheh. Teringat sesekali Proud Mary. :)

Kami sempat lagi menyediakan makanan petang sebelum bersiap-siap untuk ke Airport. Perkhidmatan teksi Mr. Zamir sekali lagi digunakan. Kami bersetuju untuk bertolak ke airport pada pukul 5.30 petang and informed that to Mr. Zamir but he came in early and waited for us outside the house. Anyhow we were exactly on time (5.30pm). We took off from our house to the airport.

Mr. Zamir or Uncle Zamir according to Ita, was very lovely as he bought us Tim Tam chocolate biscuit (australian version-very famous according to Uncle Zamir), Kit Kat for each of us, and a surprise gift for Ita which was a peppermint gummy. Uncle Zamir even went on for the extra sweetheart that he was by offering us to buy dinner (it was around 6 to 7 pm that time) and he did just that. 3 large packets of Lebanon Kebab and we thanked him for the good deeds. (We insisted on take-away)

Upon arriving to the airport. we bid farewell to Uncle Zamir and headed on to the Self Check-In machine. It was almost 7 pm that time and we were having trouble with our passport on the machine (newly implemented self check-in system). Luckily there was the Virgin Australia's personnel that helped us but still to no avail. However he further assisted us by ushering us to the Check-in counter to where we met a very lovely, friendly and jovial Fiona. She was in her mid 50's, with a clear glasses, and ever smiling. She also introduced us to her colleague named Sean in which happened to be able to commune in Bahasa Malaysia quite well. Semua orang terkujat kecuali sayalah. Heheh. However we managed to selfie with Fiona and hoped to be seing her again in future. Love you Fiona and we wish you all the best in everything that you do.

Perjalanan kami pada malam ini bermula dari Perth Airport dan kemudiannya tiba ke-esokan paginya di Brisbane International Airport (5.30 am) dan transit selama 1 jam sebelum meneruskan perjalanan ke Auckland, New Zealand iatu tiba pada pukul 2.30 pm.

Memandangkan, kami check-in awal dengan bantuan Fiona, we decided to makan dulu kebab yang disedekahkan oleh Uncle Zamir. Kebab Lebanon. Memang sedap la ditambah dengan chilli sauce packet yang dibawa dari Malaysia. Hehehe. kami makan sebelum masuk ke kawasan Custom & Immigration.

Memandangkan portion Lebanon Kebabs tersebut sangat besar, maka saya dan Kak Mah berkongsi makan dan selebihnya diberikan kepada cleaner airport bersama biskut Tim Tam dll. Memang perut dah sendat. Cannot go.

Usai makan, kami melepasi tapisan imigresen dan kastam dan seterusnya masuk ke kawasan Pelepasan Antarabangsa. We had 2 hours or so to kill the time prior to departure as so we decided to browse around the available shops (which were interesting enough to browse through) before taking a rest at the designated resting area.

Our flight departed at 10.45 pm. See you in Auckland guys.....