The real UGG story

12-3-2010 (Friday)

We indeed extended our stay, for 2 extra nights. The hotel is good and well situated.

We had breakfast in the hotel, becoming member of Shangri-La’s loyalty program gives you breakfast for half price. So we had great breakfast overlooking the marina.
Ruben and the kids spend most of the morning at the pool whilst Sharon picked up some necessary groceries and sorted out the activities for the next week like rainforest, reef and aboriginal visits.

After lunch Ruben took Zeb to the best playground ever at the end of the esplanade. It’s huge and has also nice water activities. Sharon walked Sharai around town and went shopping. She unveiled the real UGG story. The UGG’s we know are not ‘real’ Australian but is an American brand made in China. UGG was not allowed by Australian producers to use as brand name before because UGG is just a short name for UGLY, and that’s what they are indeed. So since recent years producers in Australia are also allowed to call the ‘real’ ones UGG. But they are not allowed to sell outside Australia under that brand name.

We had dinner in an Italian place at the marina. Only bad news of the day is that Sharai has a cold.