Catching up on the blog again – bare with us as we update our
final pictures and stories.
After successfully completing half of our Great Australian
Tour we had a couple more days to regroup in Melbourne before setting off for our journey
up the East coast.
Neal and Laura allowed us to stay with them and we were
treated to a special guest from the beginning of our trip in New Zealand our
pet… Derek!
Derek, Neal, and I quickly fell into our old routine of
juvenile jokes and general shenanigans culminating in a nightly paper airplane
contest launching from the Shannon’s 18th
floor apartment. Derek, being the nerd that he is, had the most successful
plane that landed over a block away. There was also a pant wettingly funny
incident when a plane did a kamikaze run into the stomach of a pedestrian
heading to work in the morning.
To pass the time during the day we fuelled up on my
favourite food (hot dogs from Snag Stand) and headed out to explore the city
using the Melbourne Bike Share.
The Bike Share was great because you can buy a helmet at
7-11 for 5 bucks and grab any bike from the racks around town. As long as you
dock the bike every thirty minutes there is no charge. Our tiny biker gang,
reunited after our scooter trip on Waiheke NZ, visited the Botanic Gardens then
rode along the Yarra
River. Jess and Laura took the bikes out on another day and were
stopped by a reporter to ask their opinion on using the Bike Share. They are
officially famous now.
Yarra River
We went for a bunch of great meals and had a couple big
nights out. As always the time flew by and we were off again – to later return
for our final round of Melbourne
fun.
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