7/14 BYE BYE perth

Our last day in Perth!

The two Taiwanese ladies moved out of our dorm in the morning for the hostess of the hostel asked them to stay with the rest of the housekeepers. We didn’t cook anything for breakfast since we had run out of ingredients, few pieces of cheese crackers and a yogurt will have to do. After packing our baggage, we planned for our day. (We separated our belongings into a heavy pile in the carry-on bags and light one in the suitcase. The time we were coming to Perth and passing the security, our luggage got overweight but the person in charge was nice enough to let us pass.) We even put on most of the cloths that weigh a lot leaving our cases light and empty, it might seem ridiculous but hope it works.

We had took in most of Perth’s view and traveled to its landmarks making it no regret to leave; we even took all three kinds of free CAT buses and its city railway. Spending the last of our days in Perth around the CBD and capturing the afternoon view, we headed towards Woolworths. It occurred to me that if they don’t have Woolworths in the other cities, I might as well crack. The juice here was cheap, too, costing about 30NT for 1.5litres. The Australian even sell beer in plastic bottles but it’s too late to try them out for we were going on the plane tonight. I bought two cans of Pringles on sale and some coffee milk, in case we got starved in the airport. Dinner was our last-time cook in the kitchen of Britannia on William’s: Tuna and bacon spaghetti with garlic creamy sauce. Roxie fell asleep the time we got to our room while I read my electronic book.

Don and the Korean guy chatted with us for a long time after knowing about our departure, we were going to miss them. Since we had dinner early, we went downstairs at about 6 and stuffed ourselves with some awesome Vietnamese cuisines. Bidding everyone in the room goodbye, we waited across the street for the reserved CONNECT to pick us up, everything was smooth so far. The flight was 12:30 am the next morning and the airport seemed pretty empty, the total weight of our luggage was 35 kilos and that was amazing, needless for extra money. But we overheard about two miserable girls who seemed to have missed their flight and one lady that paid with her credit card due to overweight issue. The security check was more strict than the one in Taiwan and Singapore, we even have to take our umbrellas out of the bag, the officer even asked me to take my boots off for it beeped and beeped while passing the checking frame. It’s lucky that the weather was pretty dry here so my feet didn’t stink that much, and there’s also one old man poking our bodies with a metal rod in the end. After all that stabbing and jabbing, we were through.

I just saw a story of one of my classmates in college who went to France and got detained by the police on facebook. She didn’t have enough credentials to go into Paris and she was going on trial. People were now crowding the waiting area before the gate and I was gradually dozing off.

I spent 582 AUD in Perth and it was good enough for a person whose budget was 600 AUD per city. Roxie’s budget per city was 1000 but she only spent 30 AUD more than I did in Perth, we really lived a thrifty life, didn’t we?