Back in Oz

Perin and I got up at 3:30am yesterday to catch our flight to Melbourne. Being the grisled travellers we are, Perin had the rows with no people in them scoped out. As soon as they closed the doors we jumped and each had a row of three seats to ourself. Perin went right to sleep and I watched Date Night before getting a couple hours of horizontal rest myself. It was glorious.

Last time I came to Melbourne, I got the ExpressBus from the airport to the city and it was great. There's a bus that leaves every ten minutes. I tried to buy us tickets for that again, but the girl at the airport desk sold us tickets to a shuttle that were non-fundable. We watched two or three ExpressBusses leave before our shuttle arrived. And then they packed us full and we were the last drop-off. The nice part is that we got a nice free tour of the city before arriving at our destination.

We didn't have a lot of touring energy, so we walked through the casino, got some delicious hamburgers, then checking into our hotel and took showers and naps. Then we headed out. Some hair product company (Schwartkopf) was putting on a live infomercial for thier hair products and having people off the street enter in the "Best Hair in Australia" competition. Perin entered, got her hair didded, and it came out beautifully. She would totally win, but we don't live in Australia and are excluded from competition. Glam shot photo to be displayed later.

We ended the evening by heading up to Chinatown and looking for a hole-in-the-wall noodle and dumpling restaraunt. I remember it from my last trip here, but we didn't eat there because it was cash-only and there was long queue. I wasn't sure we'd find it because it was down some dark alley, but we ended up right at it. Waited our turn in line and then had a delicious feast for very little money.

Then we wandered through the alleys and shops and along the river just watching people and looking and everything. I wanted to talk to Perin about Date Night and all the funny parts, but still not give away the whole movie. She'll have to watch it on the plane home and I'll have to hold my tongue until then. Still tired we called it an early night and went to bed. Today, we're hitting the touristy stuff hard. But first, we have to eat!