My last day in Melbourne and what better way to spend it than going to Queen Victoria Market in the morning and then out to dinner and a Basketball game in the evening. The Queen Vic Market is fantastic, lots of fresh food, meats, fruits, vegetables all at great prices, souvenirs, delicatessens, food courts - the lot! We wandered around there for a couple of hours, then went back to the flat, watched a film and then got ready to leave at 5pm for dinner before ...

Today was the Phillip Island Penguin Parade tour. I arrived at the tour office about 10 minutes before the tour was meant to depart, checked in and then waited for the bus to arrive. Once it did, we all got on and then the tour guide Steve, said there's too many here, is everyone on the Philip Island tour? Nobody said anything. He asked again. Nothing. Then, as he was trying to work it out looking through the papers, one lady asked if this was going to Neighbo...

It's been quite a busy couple of days so it has! Yesterday I went to Parliament House, The Treasury Building and to ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image). The tours of the Parliament House and the Treasury buildings were quite nice - not earth shattering mind, but then again unless that's your thing it's not going to be - it's a parliament building and a treasury - come on! Now ACMI on the other hand, was interesting it's a big exhibition building with ...

Right so today was all about the sport! I packed in the Rod Laver Arena tour, the MCG tour and a trip around the National Sports Museum which had a fantastic Olympics exhibition, posters, medals and things of interest, articles from every single Olympics, that was great. The tours were great and it was good to be able to get around the Rod Laver Arena especially, it's a lot smaller than it looks on TV and the main court is certainly a lot smaller than Centre C...

Today was Melbourne Cup day and we had a little party planned. Xenia, Stu and I spent the morning cooking lunch and making a cake for afters and then Emma turned up at around 12 dressed as if she was actually going to the races. First thing she said was "well I'm glad you guys made the effort!" We all laughed hysterically and told her that she had definitely won prize for the best outfit, we called it the 'Fashions in Fairfield' award. Too funny. For the rest ...