The Melbourne Journey

Healsville && Skype

Well, after a crazy first day here in Melbourne, the second day (yesterday) was a total turn-around. We woke up and went through the Yarra Valley into the Healsville Sanctuary where we got to enjoy some of Australia’s awesome creatures. While the zoo was great, the ride up there was breathtaking. Expecting the scenery to be city-like and boring, Rachel and I looked up from our addicting games of Angry Bird to see the most beautiful mountains, Vinyards, pastures, valleys….man it was gorgeous. I–we–were mesmerized in the LEAST. The grass was so green it looked fake. The sky was abnormally blue. The whole way there my mind was filled with nothing but one word–WOW. It was a simply lovely day :) Although on the way back we were threatened with a $183 ticket by three huge people in black trench-coats to get our feet off the chair in the train, after yelling at us they just gave us a warning. Funny, but SCARY! haha…

Today we got to chill in Starbucks for a bit and I got to Skype with Nicholas while Rachel video chatted with the Burnetts. It was good relaxation time. We shopped and came upon THE most amazing little store called Typo. We fell in love with it!!!

Tomorrow we leave for Geelong, which we are both very excited about…

Love :)

An “Adventurous” Day ;)

Well, I can’t make this long because I have five minutes and six seconds left, and this wifi is expensive…

We arrived in Melbourne today after a short flight (we were SO close to not making the flight–first dramatic event of the day haha!) and got to our hotel, which wasn’t necessarily like our last one, but we won’t be in it long so that doesn’t even matter! :)

We had planned on going to Planetshakers church, but little did we know……. We got ready and after taking 30 minutes trying to find the right train and ticket we finally got on the correct train. As we arrived and walked past the “Voodoo Children’s Music Store” and a Buddhist sanctuary, we soon realized we were in the GHETTO part of Melbourne. Typically we wouldn’t have even thought to be there, but knowing that the church was close kept us looking for it. We got to the address and found ourselves standing in shock in front of a small, old, deserted parking garage and building. Church? I think not. It said “Planetshakers” on it, but church was DEFINITELY not in session–we would have seen people because we were LATE! haha… We got back to our room safely though, don’t worry.

And, side note, we got the joy of hearing a teenager talk about how silly it is that we call cell phones “cell phones” instead of mobile (mow-bye-ll) phones. He just didn’t understand. So funny…

Other fun things about the day: we locked ourselves out of our room, figured out we have a mini-fridge in the room (Yayayayayay!), and are looking forward to tomorrow :)

Anyway, gotta go– 50 seconds left!!!!