Melbourne (finally)

Our journey from Phillip Island to Melbourne was a little bizarre! Should have only taken 3 hrs but we had to change at Lang Lang and then after leaving there the bus broke down...so we had to go back to Lang Lang to get another bus! It ended up taken just over 4hrs to get into the city, and then we finally managed to work out the tram system here and arrived at the Nunnery, only to find out there had been a mistake with our booking and we were booked from the 21st March not 21st Feb and they were fully booked! Whoops!

The man was very apologetic and helped us find another hostel for the 1st two nights we were here and we managed to get a cancellation for tonight and are back at the Nunnery now for the next 5 nights! Only after he had apologised profusely and been overly helpful did we discover it was in fact our fault and we booked it wrong and didn't notice!! Oh well, they don't need to know! : D

So after dragging our stuff across town we found some lodgings at Victoria Hall (funny if you know Chris Hunter and his girlfriend). They were undergoing renovation work so the showers were on the roof! A lovely view from up there! Our first day in Melbourne was really Friday after all the catastrophes of Thursday and we decided to just explore the area around Victoria Hall. On the other side of the road there was the old Gaol. Used to house and execute the infamous Ned Kelly! It's pretty spooky, but really interesting, we also had a tour where we got arrested...I had set up a bomb scare and Amy stole her mums car and drove it without a license! Whoops! She locked us up and everything and we even had mug shots!

After our terrifying adventure there, we visited the Queen Victoria Market, it's pretty much like the other market we went to in Sydney, but a bit more organised, really pretty. On the way back we visited the old library which houses the 4000 year old Mesopotamian tablet, didn't actually see it...but it was there I'm sure! We stopped of to buy some food from Woolworths (don't laugh it really happened) and sat for a while watching some live music in the QV square. All very civilised.

Today we went over to Federation Square and booked our Neighbours Tour for Monday! : D Don't get too jealous mum! We also went for a tour around the...wait for it...Melbourne Cricket Ground! Yes the famous MCG has now been visited by a very excited me...and a not so excited Amy! She loved it though, I could tell, I can sense a conversion to the beautiful game coming on! Australia played Sri Lanka yesterday in a 1 day there so we saw all the notes in the player locker rooms about who needed which ice bath and for how long! I also sat in the players boxes! Eeeeeek! So tonight we are officially in the Nunnery and we are here until Thursday morning when we fly to NZ...can't believe it's gone so fast! Hope you're all well and not too bored by my chatter!