We’ve Arrived!!!!!

I’m sitting in our hotel room crafting this latest update.

We arrived in Melbourne 1/2 hour early which was a bonus and no decontamination spray. It was 21c and partly cloudy. I was so thankful to see that our luggage had arrived considering we hadn’t seen it since Winnipeg and it was one of my worries, Getting through customs went well so you won’t see us on a episode of Austrailia Border Patrol (although there were signs up about a film crew in the airport).

We’d arrange transportation to get us to downtown Melbourne where we would pick up our car rental and get to our hotel. Fortunately both were close to the bus drop off at Southern Cross Station.

Driving on the right hand side and sitting as a passenger in what we consder the drivers seat takes some getting use to as does the streets in Downtown Melbourne where they have bike lanes and a trolley lane. Trolley take the center of the roadway yet cars can been seen in these lanes occassionally. We did a lot of “driving around the block” to get to the hotel and to find parking as it is very limited on the street. We parked the car in a recommended parkade and it will costs us $45.

By mid afternoon, it was 27c and very humid. We walked around the downtown area looking for a post office and some place to eat. By the time we found the post office, I was so tried and my ankles quite swollen from the flight, I didn’t care about eating so I went back to the hotel and fell asleep.

Since there wasn’t anything interesting to see in downtown Melbourne, today’s photos of the day were taken during the flight. I slept about 4 hours and woke about midway during the flight. I also caught the morning sunrise as we were flying near Fiji.