Melbourne Weekend

We’ve just had a super cool weekend in Melbourne for Susannah's 50h birthday party.  I finally got to wear my punk outfit and Jon pulled off a last minute triumph by renting an Adam Ant jacket at the eleventh hour. Combined with the hair and makeup services provided by myself and the kids he got much acclaim as well as a packet of Hobnobs for his trouble.  

 The party was lots of fun - even getting the number 75 tram out to Camberwell was an experience - first there was just us (in punk gear), then as the tram travelled along Flinders Street it started to fill up.  By the time we got to Flinders Street Station it was jam packed with football supporters - all wearing their own costumes - supporters jumpers, scarves and beanies.  Our made up faces and punk outfits only started to look out of place as the tram emptied out and we hit the suburbs 15 minutes later.  In fact I must admit  that as we walked the few minutes from our hotel to  the tram stop at the very start of our journey we probably passed 5 people who looked more punky than I did!

 us before and after the party

We did two escape rooms while we were in Melbourne - one went well and was lots of fun, the other went less well - in fact we felt like we were a bit ripped off (financially and experientally) by the 2nd one. I'll have to send them some feedback I think.   As we were staying in the city we were able to walk or free-tram everywhere which was really cool.

On Sunday after the second escape room we went ice skating with Clare on the beautiful ice at the dockland ice skating rinks.

Then we went to the football at Etihad Stadium- which turned out to be a great game and we had great seats - in fact the swans won by 30 or so points so it couldn't have been better.  

We also managed to squeeze in a trip to the Lindt Chocolate Shop (one of the many in Melbourne) so Zali's prayers (for a bed covered with lindt balls) could come true..

All in all it was a great weekend, jam packed with fun Melbourne activities. We had a 4am wakeup on Monday to get the 6am flight home but even that went pretty smoothly as we were staying so close to Southern Cross Station.    Yay Melbourne!