A Day in Melbourne

So we got in to Melbourne about 7:30, and we all showered and laid down for a while because we were exhausted from our trip. This night we stayed in and got some rest so that we could get up and enjoy the city the next day.

We woke up around 9:00 am and got ready for the day and headed to the Victoria Markets which are basically like the Sydney markets but cleaner and not a smelly. They had some really good deals and I picked up a few souvenirs here.

We dropped off our goods at our hostel and locked them up, then headed to the other side of the city to go to the Skydeck. Which has the highest observation tower in the Southern Hemisphere. We went there and we waited because with our tour we got a coupon for a free "Edge" Experience. This is where we got put in a glass cube about 9 feet square, and it slowly extends over the street below. We were told not to jump or else the glass would break. It was a bit terrifying because when your first motoring out there the glass is fogged and when your completely out of the building there are cracking noises and the glass turns clear.

We were at the Skydeck for a couple of hours and then we went to Federation Square to get some pictures in the daylight then caught the free tourist bus to go see Captain James Cooks house. It is a quaint little cottage that in the 1900's it was shipped to Australia so that an exhibit could be made of it. We spent about an hour there looking at the garden and hearing about the tragedy that was his life. Cpt. Cook was murdered by the indigenous Hawaiian people because they thought that he was a god.

Then we caught the tourist bus again and walked over to the Old Melbourne Gaol, but they were only open for another hour and it takes about 2 1/2 hours to go through the gaol so we decided to walk back to our hostel. once we got there we sat down for a bit and were supposed to get ready to spend a night on the town but we were really tired so we laid around a bit and finally we got ready to go out to dinner and to a bar.

We ate at a really cute Italian restaurant in Federation Square.I ate a fantastic caesar salad, and some of Ashley's pizza which was phenomenal after eating fast food for so long. After dinner we headed down the main street. And while we were walking we saw a carriage being drawn by horses with Bunny ears on. He pulled over right next to us so we stopped to get pictures, I must mention that this guy was hot! He was an Australian cowboy ans Laura and I were happy to talk to him, and then we asked him a good place to go to for drinks and he told us Cookie. We thought that was a strange place to go but we walked down the street a bit more and we found it.

So we pulled out or id's and the bouncer looked at Ashley passport and says loudly "Oh, Americaono! Go on in!" With out even looking at our ids. For once it pays to be American. Let me just tell you this bar was awesome the wait staff were friendly and fun to talk to and they picked out beers for us. Plus the beers were cheap only five bucks! So we each had a few then went up stairs to the 7th level of the bar and had a beer, talked to some nice Australians and then left for the night to go back to our hostel because we had a 7:00 am flight.