Melbourne!

Once I was done in Canberra, I made my way to Melbourne which I would consider one of the more beautiful cities I have been in. On my first day in Melbourne I spent a good chunk of it sleeping as sleeping on a full bus without leg room doesn't make for the nicest sleep, but it did get me there.
That evening I did go out a bit to see a bit of the city and saw a bit more of the area around Southern Cross Station before heading back to the hostel and catching some of the views of the city by night.

The next day I went to the Queen Victoria Markets where I bought some souveniers and gifts for the family as well as meeting up with the Irish girls I met on the Fraser Island and Whitsundays Trip (Small world).

Just one of the like at least 10 sheds

Later on in that day I did a bus tour around the city seeing some of the major areas as well as making the city a little less disorienting for me. After that I made my way towards the AFL game that was on that night at the MCG (Melbourne Cricket Grounds) between Essendon and Richmond. This is an Aussie Rules Football game rather than the one I went to in Brisbane which was a rugby league game. It was quite interesting watching this game as it is quite different than anything I have seen before and it was pretty cheap as well. I figure there were probably at least 70,000 people there as that stadium can hold over 100,000 people. Also thanks to Emma I actually understood a bit of how the game works.

War Memorial

You can still get horse buggy rides in the city

After the game I met a few other Canadians and then I made my way back to the hostel. The next day I moved to the Melbourne Metro YHA which is in downtown Melbourne. Since it was raining that day I made my way to the Melbourne Museum to check out the King Tut exhibit that was there at the time. This was one of the last stops before the exhibit before heading back to Cairo, and I don't think I have ever seen so much gold in my life. Unfortunately I could not take pictures in that exhibit.

The Melbourne Mueseum

The Australian Coat of Arms

Now if I could only trade in some of that weight for actual gold

The for the next and last day in Melbourne me and the Irish girls rented a car and did a trip along the Great Ocean Road. To be honest it wasn't quite as spectacular as I imagined but we also didn't quite make it to the great apostles before we had to head back to the city.

That night I went to the Eureka 88 Skydeck which is the highest viewpoint in the Southern Hemisphere. The elevator to get up 88 stories takes just 38 seconds! And once you get up, everyone is like "Oh, Wow"

Later on that evening I met up with another friend that I met along the way in Airlie beach where we had a bit to eat at Bertha Brown's, which has some of the best pizza's you can get (and if you stay at the YHA they are only $5 each!)
The next day I got a train back to Sydney so that I could make my way to Bathurst the day after so that I could meet up with my friends from there again before I fly back to Canada.