Melbs!

I'm so excited! I just found an NBA game on TV -- Miami @ New Orleans -- and I got to watch it from my ridiculously large bathtub. I love that I can't afford to spend more than 75 cents on dinner (I had a granola bar) but I have a giant bathtub with a TV. Awesome! :D

This has been a great weekend so far. Yesterday after I checked into my hotel, my buddy Matt came and picked me up for lunch in downtown Melbourne. We walked/took the tram back to his 50-story building, which is the 3rd tallest building in Melbourne, and after we ate lunch, we went up to the top floor and looked down at the entire city in every direction. It was so cool! (Thanks, Matt!) I took lots of pics.

After that I walked all around the city for a couple hours. I covered a lot of ground and saw lots of really cool churches and other buildings. Melbourne is so beautiful! There are gardens everywhere. I explored a couple of those today: The Alexandra Gardens, near the Yarra River, and the Fitzroy Gardens, near my hotel and Parliament Square. I walked around a lot again today and saw the Flinders Street Train Station,

Melbourne Park tennis center and the Melbourne Cricket Grounds. The tennis center is under major construction and there's only 2 1/2 months till the Aussie Open!

:D Tomorrow I might try to go to the National Sports Museum at the MCG (it was already closed by the time I got there today). I also want to take a river cruise tomorrow and check out more of the gardens. The Fitzroy Gardens were amazing! They reminded me of Golden Gate Park, but much smaller, of course.

That last pic is of a little model village. So cute! Today I also tried to get a phone but that didn't work out. On my way back to the hotel I passed the treasury building and there was a photo shoot going on with FIVE big, white, fluffy dogs. Of course I stopped and snuck a couple pics.

:)