The Constant (Failed) Dieter: Travel Log: Trapped at Work in Gold Coast (Day 2-4)

Friday, 5 August 2016

Travel Log: Trapped at Work in Gold Coast (Day 2-4)

Previous Day (Flight to Brisbane & Harbor Town)

Destination: Australia

Duration: 6 Days 5 Nights (Apr 09~Apr 15, 2016)

Day 2 & 3: Work Hard & Eat Hard

Day 2 & 3 were basically spent in hotel conference room with quick lunch & late dinner. Breakfast in Sofitel was just mediocre but my favourites were the mushrooms & potato cakes. They did have yoghurt & smoothies in exquisite looking glass but it made my stomach clenched since it was too cold & sour for me in the morning.

Good Morning Broadbeach!

Breakfast with lots of Mushrooms

Sammy is still sleeping

Still eating tons of mushrooms on 3rd day

Lunch on the Day 2 was at Room 81 in Sofitel which happened to be one of the top rank fine dining restaurant in Gold Coast. Problem was we were really rushing for schedule and needed to finish the slowly served lunch in less than an hour. LOL!!! Appetizer was either onion soup or some kind of fish thing. The fish was okay but I simply hated onion soup. I got the snapper for my main course and it was nice. Another option of main course was charcoal veal which looked totally like charcoal until my colleague was asking jokingly on whether it was food. Don’t be deceived by the look though, the veal tasted amazing.

Lunch at Room 81

Onion Soup! Hmm..

Orange Juice

Fish Appetizer

Snapper Main Course

Veal Main Course

Look at the Veal! Yummy!

We kept rushing the restaurant for desserts due to limited timeframe and had to wolf it down as fast as possible. The desserts looked and tasted yummy… the one I got was with avocado & pumpkin cream and it was the YUM. =)

My Colleague's Dessert

My Dessert with Avocado & Pumpkin cream

Another type of Dessert

Our organizer booked Day 2 dinner in Misono Japanese Steakhouse restaurant which was located at Surfers Paradise Marriott Resort. It was definitely one of the most FUN dinner I’d ever had in my life. The chef was cooking the Teppanyaki directly in front of a table of patrons with crazy stunts to put on a show during the cooking process. Not to mention the foods were super fresh & nice too. The portion was too humongous though. Oh, the chef also threw shrimp at the patron for them to catch it with mouth! I managed to catch one! *proud*

Marriott Hotel Lobby

Asahi Black!

Miso Soup

Salad

Fried Shrimp

Fried Chicken

Fire! Someone call the fire department!

Our Chef

Sauce

Shrimp & Vege

Fried Rice =P

Salmon too

Beef & Chicken

Thank you!!! :)

Lunch on Day 3 was at the 3^rd floor of Sofitel (Bistro on 3) which happened to be the same place as our breakfast. The lunch was really below our expectation and I ended up eating more desserts than main courses. =P

View of Sofitel Lobby from 1st Floor

Lunch.. Meh..

The only best thing of the lunch - Dessert!!!

Snack & Drink

We had a super late dinner at Rossini’s – an Italian restaurant near our hotel. The cheese baked oyster was to die for. I’m not a fan of raw oyster but I must say the raw oyster here was indeed very fresh. Since it was late, we simply ordered to share.

Very nice light beer

Cheese Baked Oyster & Raw Oyster

Fried Calamari

Pizza

Steak

Carbonara

Anyway my trip was extended last minute for extra 2 days as extra hand was needed for the event. Thus I could only fly back on Friday instead.

Day 4: Castaway

After another busy day with mediocre lunch at a hall in Sofitel, we departed the hotel for a team building at McLarens Landing.

Yet another morning at Sofitel

I wish i were Sammy!

Breakfast

Lunch

Dessert!

We cruised on the incredible calm channel and thankfully there was no rain. The view was great thanks to the stunning sky with sun shinning out from the cloud. We had some team building activity in the island before having our dinner at the same spot as well.

On the Way to Mariner's Cove

Here we are!

Look at all the Yachts!

Our Boat.. LOL!!! No Yacht for us!

Let's start our Journey

Not without a beer!

Enhoying the View

Sun is setting!

Life at Sea

Sun is disappearing

Approaching our destination

Almos

Team building basically consisted of each team painting a section of a large of a canvas and hoped by some miracle (or teamwork between different team) they all fit nicely together when they are arranged in sequence. Surprisingly our end result looked not bad at all! *thumb up*

Here we go!

Our end result! Look at the 2 headed boy in the middle!!! LOL!!!

The dinner was just passable but yay for free flow alcohol! LOL!!! We finally got back to the cruise on time and got transferred back to Sofitel after a long day.