Day trip to the city (Melbourne)

Pics:

1) Vic Market

2) Team Canada jacket

3) The crew touring Melbourne

4) The city

5) Federation Square

6) Flinders St. Station and St. Paul's from Eureka

7) Melbourne Park (Aussie Open)

8) Eureka Tower

9) Cool bridge and Flinders St. Station in background

10) Fed Square

11) St. Paul's Cathedral
12) Flinders Street Station

13) Luna Park entrance

14) Oldest rollercoaster in the world at Luna Park

Shae and Miia were heading up to the city for an appointment, so they figured it'd be fun to go up to the city one day to do the touristy things. They were right. Travis came with us too. We started at the Victoria Market in the morning, a massive outdoor marked. I bought a boomerang, a new wallet, and even saw some Team Canada memorabilia as well as an Oilers jersey. It was way cheaper than in the stores back home, but they only had larges. A Team Canada jersey would be good to have for travelling with. Anyway, after the Vic Market we met Shae's friend Shae, had lunch (I had a MASSIVE piece of lasagna, the Italian guy gave me a big smile when he just packed the plate full. Though I gotta say, there's still nothing like homemade lasagna, good on ya Mom!) After lunch we went over to the casino (apparently the only one in the State of Victoria, but I find that hard to believe). We walked along the South Bank over to Eureka Tower. Stats time:

Skydeck 88 is the highest public vantage point in the Southern Hemisphere

World's tallest residential building

Fastest lifts in the Southern Hemisphere (more than 9m/sec)

In other words, it's tall. The view was just spectacular, great view of Port Phillip Bay, Rod Laver Arena and the rest of the tennis park, the city, etc. After the skydeck we split up from Shae, Miia and Shae, and Travis and I went to Federation Square (city square, very modern and interesting), then to Luna Park in St. Kilda's. It was closed, but we could see the world's oldest rollercoaster from where we were standing. Plus we wanted pics of the clown face entrance.