In Melbourne...

just wanted to send a quick update as to what has been going on in Melbourne with us....

We arrived in melbourne on wednesday, and we were greeted by kate.  She was standing right at the gate when we came off our flight.  That surprised us since we normally don't see that in Toronto. It took us 27 hours to get to australia.  Our Longest flight which was from san francisco to sydney was 13 hours straight. We were so lucky that we had amazing seats, and as soon as we got on the plane we feel asleep hard.  travelling in planes for so long is exhausting. Oh my.

Once we arrived in Melbourne we were greeted by 27 degree weather.  I was wearing a down vest.  It was making everyone around me really hot looking at me wearing the vest. everyone asked that i take it off but I was still in toronto weather, lol. Aurelia and kate bought us a futon to sleep on so we had a very nice sleep that night.  We needed a nice sleep since we were so spent from the flight and a full day of walking around our new neighbourhood.

Where we live is very active.  It is like a gay town crossed by queen west.  there are so many shops and little restaurants everywhere.  It is saturated by places to go and things to do. We will send out pictures soon. We like this area.

Tonight which is thursday for us, since we are 15 hours ahead of toronto, we are going to a bbq at a friend's house.  I asked Kate if i should make guacamole for hamburgers, but they don't have them for bbq.  When they say we will have "shrimp on the barbie", they really mean it. No hot dogs and hamburgers. that is for the north americans, lol. They go all out here.

Today we went for a walk downtown Melbourne and it is so hot outside, maximum high of 39 degrees.  Come on, it is so hot in this country. we went to the downtown mall at melbourne central station and saw spider man waiting at the atm for money. he was wearing a full spider man outfit including the face. If I was 3 I would really think spider man was at the mall waiting for the atm to get money for a smoothie. That was so weird. It made us laugh though.

We haven't really thought about what we are going to do next, but we went into a travel shop and looked at some brochures.  Maybe we will do a week long cruise that is all about scuba diving.  that sounds fun.  I think we will just chill out for another week and enjoy or hide from this heat wave.

Just to give you guys an idea of australia, food is rather expensive here.  Well maybe just the common things we are so accustomed to in toronto. Powerade  and a bag of chips <> cost almost 9 dollars. that is ludicrous. but sometimes you want it.

That is all the updates for now, we will send out another email soon.