I love Melbourne! Of course I say that about everywhere in Australia, but it's true.
Last night I met Rachel at the bus station then took the tram to her apartment and met up with her boyfriend Jon. Then we went to St. Kilda Beach and ate burgers then walked out to the rocks to see penguins. They were adorable!
The pictures are shitty because you're not allowed to use flash. They seriously have people standing there who will yell at you if you use it.
After we had our fill of penguins, we met up with Rachel's friends at a British pub where we stayed until 12.
Today we left the house around 11 and went to the Melbourne CBD. We tried to take the free tram around the city but it kicked us off after a few stops so we gave up and ate lunch instead. We found a great Thai place whose Thai iced tea and Pad Thai tasted just like back at home.
While eating at a sidewalk table I noticed lots of people walking around with bubble tea! Bubble tea is nowhere to be found in Korea (until last weekend!) so I had to get some. We walked through Chinatown trying to find it and took a Target detour. Target in Australia isn't like American Target. It's more like Walmart. I still found a pair of sandals, 2 pairs of earrings, and hand sanitizer. Then we found bubble tea and I got a large taro and it was orgasmic. I never wanted to finish.
We took a walk along the river and ended up going to the National Gallery of Victoria, which is a big free art museum. You can't beat a free museum!
We were pretty knackered after that so we went back and booked the rental car for tomorrow's road trip, then the 3 of us went out for dinner and had bbq chicken pizza, then went back to the CBD to go to the Australian souvenir stores. I really wanted to see Rod Laver Arena so we took the tram there. It's deserted at 10pm and the guy working security seemed pretty perplexed about why we were there but he was a good sport and took a picture of us in front of it.
I'm so sad I'm missing the Open by 1 week, I would have loved to go. Maybe next year!
Funny...we thought Melbourne was SOOOO boring!!! We should have definitely rented a car and gone far far out of the CBD area!! I didn't know about the penguins - that would have been cute to see.
ReplyDeleteP.S. Target was also expensive as hell! It's embarassing what I paid for a thing of Covergirl mascara.