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Melbourne

Cliffs Notes Version:
Went to the marekt and bought some food, had a picnic in the park, went to the Aquarium, followed up by a stop at the casino where we watched the BCS Championship Game.

Day 1

Melbourne was a pretty chill city. It's kind of like the pissed off younger brother of Sydney that is mad cause Sydney gets all the attention and hot girlfriends and it's stuck home watching MacGyver with Mom and Dad. I actually kind of preferred it to Sydney though. There was this crazy market that took up a few blocks where you could buy cheese, bread, and denim skirts. Well, there was other stuff there too I think, but those were the items that Colleen happened to have been all about that particular day. We got some bread and cheese and went to a park and had lunch and then went to the aquarium and saw a giant squid in a block of ice. This is actually a big deal. Seriously. Only place in the world where you can see a squid. Booyah.

The giant squid trapped in a block of ice ... I call him Blinky

After the squid, we went to a casino and we actually caught the end of the Rose Bowl in their sports betting area. It totally made my day cause Texas won ... not cause I like Texas, but because I hate USC. We then went shopping and ended the day with the worst pizza I've ever had. Oh, Melbourne was also the city where our camera freaked out on us. We would turn it on and the lens would stay extended and the display would tell us to turn it off/on, but nothing would work. This kind of sucked because it meant we couldn't take any pictures with a full two weeks left in our trip. Crazy geeks that we were we disassembled the camera with a tweezers (not joking), and tried the time honored method of blowing in it. Amazingly, it worked. We felt pretty cool. Then we went nappy time.

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