Day 18

20/4/14

Melbourne to Melbourne

Hi guys, my name is Tim 

Today we walked around Melbourne center and surrounds. To start off we found a car park that was near a tram stop that the city circuit went on, our first tram wasn't crowded but we still had to stand up instead of sitting down. Our first stop was at the the shopping center that holds the shot tower and then went to the state library to look at the reading room and the exhibitions. Emily found the entire thing boring (she says) and Sarah found it interesting and boring at the same time (she also says), I on the other hand found the entire library opressive but interesting. When we left the library we went on another tram and almost immediately got off again along with most of the other people when the tram started going the opposite direction to what we wanted to go. We wanted to go to the Fitzroy gardens and had to go through china town to get there. When we got to the gardens we went to the conservatory. In the conservatory it was really hot, humid and green (I wanted to get out as soon as I got in there). After we had taken our photos we headed out the back and saw a sculpture of Diana and her hounds (she didnt have anything on from the waist up) and whent to cooks cottage. The cottage wasn't very interesting but we saw some red thing in the distance and decided to go and investigate it. Turns out that the red thing was a slide in the shape of a dragon which Sarah instantly decided to go and play on. The next interesting thing was a fairy tree that had figures carved into it around the tree there was free books to take. Next to the tree was a model tudor village that England gave us for giving them food after ww2. Next we went to A.C.M.I at federation square, it wasnt very interesting but there were computer games to play. After I had my fill of games we had to go and find a tram that would take us back to the car, finally after 20 minutes of wating we found a city circle tram that would take us back to our car but it was packed and we had to wait until people came out so we could get on. After our tram trip we got back into the car and drove to a Japanese restaurant and had dinner then went home and to sleep.