Melbourne!

W e arrived in Melbourne around 9:00pm on Saturday, April 11th. Falen picked us up at the airport and took us back to her place to drop our things off. Then we went out for some awesome Italian pizza and found the Starbucks!!! mmmm how I missed Starbucks!

Shot from the plane to Melbourne

My room in Melbournes at Falens place...so Victorian.

Awesome Italian Lamb Pizza

Ahhh Starbucks at last!

A cool building in the city.

Anand & Falen, We went for some real Sushi on Sunday..along with a little bit of Sake.

After this we went to the Art Gallery....I'm leaving that out for another post.

Rock! Bang!...You had to be there. In the evening we went to see the comedian Kevin Brennan since the Melbourne International Comedy Festival was on!

I'm skipping Monday..it'll get it's own post too..

A cool shot of the city and the train station, we just wandered around the city Tuesday morning before we took off to Sydney. Eureka Tower in the background...hey, why don't we go to the top of that?

Us chillin with Starbucks!

Then to the top of Eureka Tower..88 floors up!

The wonderful view.

The fake little Eiffel tower (or something..) in the front and the home of the Australian Open in the background.

A Tram and Horses..two main means of transportation in Melbs.

Anand getting searched for the Second time on the way to Sydney. Good thing he bet me a free coffee if he go searched again.

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Australian words for the week

Budgie Smugglers -> Speedos
Winker -> Signal light

Real Sushi & Mad Mickey

I found real Sushi!
Claudia recommended I go to a place called Jaws Kaiten in the city...it was great! They even had raw fish in the sushi! yummm! I went with the two Helena's from Sweden! They are leaving on the 23rd :( I'll be back to this place for sure.

You should go here if you're in the area...View Larger Map

After sushi we wandered around and found a very angry mickey mouse. I later found out that you're not supposed to take pictures in clothing stores here! Good thing mickey didn't beat us up.

Then we went for coffee at the Belgium Beer Cafe on Murray Street.

That's all

I'm starving and going to go eat now so this is the end of this post.

Australian words for the week
Nappies -> Diapers

Sushi, Tanning & Sharks

Scarborough & So-called Sushi

Saturday March 7th, Anand and I went to Scarborough beach because we wanted to try this sushi place (Peko Peko: http://www.pekopeko.com.au/) near by..so we go there. Long story short, the place was NOT sushi..it was ¿cooked sushi?, if you can even call it that. The fish was cooked! To be fair, it wasn't bad, just not what we expected.

Mission: find out if they have real sushi here..isn't Asia close by?

Tanning Skills

In Perth, the sun is hot... but my tanning skills are even hotter.
I call it the four-finger tan line.

OH and let's not forget the shark sighting!
Apparently they saw a shark near scarbs, they had the helicopter hovering over the water and about 4 boats driving around along with a non-stop siren that came on and had everyone scrambling to get out of the water..it looked like the beach patrols were trying to scare it off since they weren't moving too much at first. We didn't see any fins above the water.

Everyone on the beach and the helicopter in the back.

Once the siren went off about 25 minutes later, everyone jumped back in..I was cooking by then since it was 32 degrees and so I joined but just made sure a few people were out further than me; us Canadian's aren't as dumb as we look. I never thought I'd be on the beach when there was a shark sighting, apparently if it's really dangerous they close the beach entirely.

Good news is I'm still alive, but I think even if the shark came after me I could have wrestled it down and then we would have had some raw meat for our real sushi.

Nightlife
Anand and I went to Onyx (http://www.onyxbar.com.au/) in Subiaco on Friday, pretty nice club...I reckon.

Dave, Me, Shaloni, Anand

Aussie words for the week (in order of importance)

Bottle-o -> Liquor store
How ya goin'? -> How ya doin'?
Uni -> University (they never use this word in full)
Carpark -> Parking lot
Ta -> Thank you (or something like it)
Scar-bra ->Scarborough