Australia Take 3, Phase 2

After a little warm up time in Sydney, it was off to meet the in-laws in Melbourne. Start by taking a look to the left at an A380 sitting next to a 747. That's a BIG bird. Our trip to Melbourne was to be pretty lazy, with the exception of a visit to the 12 apostles and the penguins, other than that, we were pretty flexible. We arrived in Melbourne first, dropped our bags off at the Medina Grand Melbourne Apartments, and were ready to go find some lunch. We went to a little restaurant row near the hotel, but didn't know what we wanted and didn't really want to be stood over while we tried to read our way through the menus. We eventually settled on a little Vietnamese place off the main restaurant area on little Bourke street. Here's a funny thing about Melbourne, there is often a large main street, and then a smaller version of that same street. In this case there's a Bourke and a little Bourke. It's always abbreviated Lt. which I spent most of the first day calling Lieutenant. After lunch we found our way to a Grocery store and picked up some provisions for our stay. Food in Australia is ridiculously expensive, so it only made sense to pick up some breakfast food and some wine to have around the apartment for the rest of our stay. After the in-laws arrived we wandered back down to the main restaurant area for dinner. At dinner time almost all the places were offering a free bottle of wine with dinner, and we settled into a nice little Italian place for what turned out to be a pretty great dinner. Sometimes these places that are all jammed together can be merely average, but we stumbled into something pretty decent. I know we have a card for it somewhere, If I find it I'll update. The rest of what you're looking at here are two views from our apartment balcony. This location is really great.