Canberra Part 7

Canberra Day 14: Glassworks, Dimsum, Mt Ainslie and Museum

Early in the morning, I show the maple tree some love... by plucking its withering leaves.

Headed to Canberra Glassworks for Glassblowing at 10am.

A very elaborate process. We enjoyed about an hour of 90s pop in the background whilst these ladies melted and contorted glass.

You'll never guess how much the round plate costs. AUD24,500!! 

Cinderella in the modern age would be wearing these slippers. The circle is made of black glass rods shaded to white! Brilliant! Beautiful blue glass.... as blue as the sky that day.

 Behold the American Eagle again(Parliament area!)

We decided to go to Mount Ainslie(the highest peak in Canberra) since the weather was clear and perfect.

Mt Ainslie and the gorgeous view! 

The brilliant layout by Walter Griffin

Finally, lunch at XY Dimsum! A place I vowed to visit every trip I make to Canberra! Get ready to feast your eyes on the delicious sensations. All you can eat!

Scallop dumplings, kailan and the best chee cheong fun ever!

Fried wantans and a variety of steamed dumplings and pork ribs

Char Siew Pau, Squid Rings, Spring Rolls, chicken feet and beefballs

Must-have fried belacan chicken wings and my ultimate favourite fried stuffed brinjals. The others who were there just waited for the trays to come out and being Chinese sellers, they pushed out the less valuable items and many of the items on the menu didn't make an appearance. We knew better and ordered other items from the menu. I thoroughly enjoyed the sesame seed balls! 

The pudding which Ying had 2 of with thick evaporated milk. 

Off to the National Museum. They used to charge per entry but now it's free! Gorgeous architecture.

Stuck sis on a wheelie as she was getting too pregnant to walk.

The revolving theater- Circa: showing the journey through time of Australia. 4 segments of 3 minutes each. After each segment, the floor would rotate and bring us into a new segment. Fun but dizzy.

The aborigines section. There was a carpeted floor which was installed with ground sensors. We were asked to dance with the aborigines and our dance would create corresponding sounds and steps on the wall screens by dancing aborigines. FUN. So there we were, stamping away in the dark :D

We enjoyed listening to the history of Australia and looking at the wonderful aboriginal art.

Ying sympathised with the aborigines and yelled: Give back what you stole! The whites had stolen a generation from the aborigines by removing children from them, deeming them unfit to raise children. I entered a room where there was the apology speech made by the PM to the aborigines and the crowd there that day wept with their families and it was such an overwhelming day. I stood there watching and began to cry along. Such a traumatic history and emotional occasion.

The view of the famous lake and water fountain from the museum. You can literally see this lake from every angle of Canberra. Well done, Burley-Griffin! Unfortunately, the trip was cut short. Ying, wanting to join Alex and my sister who were playfully zipping around on the wheelchair on the opposite side of the museum tripped over the drizzled floors of the museum garden while sprinting across. Humpty had a bad fall. So all the kings horses and all the kings men had to put Humpty together again.