Our Honeymoon

Our honeymoon stretched over 1 month from Singapore -> Melbourne -> Tahiti -> Bora Bora -> Moorea -> Sydney -> Melbourne -> Singapore!

Melbourne

Watched WICKED - The Untold Story of the Witches of Oz @ Melbourne's Regent Theatre. The interior of the theatre was impressive!

Famous koko black chocolate recommended by Boo's colleague.

Horse carriage ride!

Afternoon tea @ Windsor hotel recommended by an Australian cyclist we met on the plane. Comes with delicious dessert buffet line. After we had our fill, we headed to Singapore Day.

I'm so strong!Yummy dessert from the patisserie!

Bora Bora

Domestic flight from Tahiti to Bora Bora. Most tahitian ladies wear a tiare on their hair.

Received a warm welcome with flower leis by St Regis Bora Bora.

Travelled from the pier to the resort on board St Regis private catamaran.

Bear pretending to drive the catamaran.

Enjoying the bottle of welcome champagne

Bed during the day Bed during the night

Bath room comes with 2 basins - one for each of us

Check out the turquoise waters and our overwater bungalow with see through glass bottoms!

Go skinny dipping right from the bungalow.

Fishes swimming right below our bungalow look like little sharks.

Seashell footpath

More swimming!

Backed by demand from many of our friends, we've finally uploaded the rest of the pics for our honeymoon during the xmas / new year break :)

Dinner @ the infamous Bloody Mary's Restaurant

Sunrise @ Bora Bora
Breakfast @ Bora Bora

Eggs Benedict... yum yum...


Travel anywhere within the resort using the buggy.
Shame on you tiki
Shopping for famous Tahiti Black Pearl and enjoying champagne (again!)

Dinner @ the resort's Lagoon Restaurant. Comes with see thru glass floor too.

Love this dish!
The dessert looks a bit err....

Private Tour with BBQ lunch on private motu
Fish Feeding
So many sting rays were swimming around us! Their tails were brushing against our bodies. OMG! Remind us of Steve Irwin's episode.


Black Tipped Reef Sharks
A Kodak Moment

Swimming with the Sharks - scary! We saw lemon sharks swimming close to the sea bed while snorkelling.

BBQ lunch with lobster and champagne (again!)

Queen of the island hahah...

Hermit Crab

Blue lipped ClamColourful corals were plentiful close to the shore
Bear drove the boat back to the resort (like real)

Sea urchins, sergeant major and other fishes found in the resort's lagoon

Enjoyed a relaxing spa treat before we leave this beautiful place
View from the aircraft - wow!

Papeete Beautiful Sunset @ Tahiti

Whale watchingSaw dolphins while whale watching

Moorea

We took the ferry to get from Papeete to MooreaOnce we arrived, we rented a car from Avis to drive around island for the whole day. It is Johnson's first time driving on the left side of the car! We visited the dolphins and sick sea turtle.

Then visited the Tiki Village where the natives performed and canoed and showed us how tahiti black pearls were harvested.

Dinner was international buffet @ Tahiti Intercontinental which included dance and fire performances.


Sydney

Blue MountainOur sumptous seafood lunch @ Sydney Fish market

Pancakes on the Rock recommended by the police on patrol - nice!
Sydney Opera House

Our Wedding Photos

Finally found some time to upload the wedding photos today. Check out the link below for our wedding pics:

http://www2.snapfish.com.sg/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=243562778/a=74683230_74683230/t_=74683230

Also uploaded some of the engagement photos we took in Melbourne in July:

http://www2.snapfish.com.sg/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=243728832/a=74683230_74683230/t_=74683230

Enjoy!

Our Honeymoon, Day 2, The Raffles Hotel, Singapore

Our second day as husband and wife gave us an opportunity to work as a team as we took The Raffles Hotel to task with the list of issues that had occurred during the dinner. (More on that in other subsequent blog entries. This is the honeymoon blog.)

We had the buffet breakfast at the Tiffin Room, our first buffet in as many months as we could remember.



After the sumptuous breakfast buffet spread, we headed to our room and prepare for our meeting with the Raffles staff before we finally checked-out from the hotel at 3pm.

First stop was my "ex-home" where I packed more clothes for the flight that night. Bidding goodbyes, we made our way to our new home where we unpack more stuffs and packed new stuffs and bid goodbye to our matrimonial home. Last stop was at Boo's "ex-home" where we had a very good home-cooked meal cooked by my mum-in-law. She even made us bird's nest soup for dessert!

Finally, we drove our Mazda with my parent-in-laws to Changi Airport where we bid goodbyes first to the Mazda and then to our parents and board the flight to Melbourne.

Our Honeymoon, Day 1, The Raffles Hotel, Singapore

After our wedding dinner, we spent our first 2 nights at the Raffles Hotel and flew to Melbourne where we spent another 2 nights before flying off to Tahiti.

This was our honeymoon story.

Day 1, The Raffles Hotel, Singapore:

The morning after the wedding, we were too tired to enjoy a buffet breakfast so we ordered in. Boo had a Spa Breakfast while I had a Japanese Breakfast in the dining area of our room.

We went for our spa appointment after our breakfast. Boo wore her own clothes while I wore the hotel bath robe and just my boxers as I had forgotten to pack my clothes for the hotel stay. It was a good thing that Raffles Amarita Spa was able to provide me with a pair of black shorts.

After the spa session, we stopped by the Raffles shop and bought ourselves each a t-shirt with the Raffles logo that commemorated their 120 years in existence. I never changed back to the bath robe. Instead opting to sign for the polo tee and walked out of the shop wearing it.

Lunch had to be something we may not be able to find as we may be away from Singapore for a while. So we headed for Suntec City to deposit our Ang Pow money and change some of it to AUD and USD. We finally decided to have tonkatsu at Tonkichi as Japanese food tend not to taste very authentic in Melbourne.

The butler service provided by The Raffles Hotel was very good. I had an allergic reaction that evening and rashes were breaking out all over my body. I paged for the butler and told her that I need antihistamines and she actually helped me to get it from me from the pharmacy.

Our Wedding!

Our wedding is finally over and we are now in cold Melbourne. Will continue blogging after our honeymoon in Tahiti and Bora Bora...

Meanwhile, do get a glimpse of our wedding at

http://gilbertchua.blogspot.com/2008/09/sweet-romance.html

and

http://alittledream02.livejournal.com/193561.html