Melbourne

We arrived into Melbourne in the afternoon on the 4^th of April (I feel I've left off dates a lot in the blog and I only update it when the laptop can get on the internet so it's not very consistent). We headed straight for my cousin Colm and his wife Bobby's apartment. Bobby was home from work so she came to meet us as the train station. Both she and Colm look great and they are waiting to have a little baby boy. That night we spent catching up and chatting away. Colm and Bobby still had work while we were there so during the day we kept ourselves entertained.

Tuesday we headed for a walk around the small streets and arcades in Melbourne. We toured around little boutiques stopping mostly at watch shops and to grab some food. After Brian grabbed some lunch we both went to a pretty little cake shop for dessert. The cake shop was a really high tea kind of place. The sandwiches had cucumber and the crusts cut off and they had some specialist teas with tea leaves and silver strainers. The cakes were delightful. Brian got Toblerone cheese cake and I hand a Lamington. Then we headed down to wander around the waterfront. We booked dinner for Thursday night as a treat for Colm and Bobby. That night the four of us headed out to a comedy gig just a few minutes down the road from the apartment. There were three different comedians and we got some food there before the show. The comedian's were very good, especially the last guy Dave Callan. He was an Irish guy who had been living in Australia a very long time. Wednesday we headed around the Docklands on a tour of the harbour and waterfront. I bought a pair of UGG boots and Brian looked at an awful lot of watches. In the airport in Auckland I bought a beautiful red Swatch watch that I am really happy with and since then he has upped his search for a watch. He has been looking for one since the disaster that happened with his watch in Canada. Brian had really loved the comedian the night before and found out he had an hour long show in town so we met Colm and Bobby at the train station and headed to his hour long show. It was based on a survey he did of 100 questions which he gave to 100 women to try and understand them better. He then did a very good gig based on the results. There were a lot of funny things. One of his questions was name a bad influence and two people separately came up with Ursula from the little mermaid. We then got food in a Japanese restaurant which was really nice.