Yay another update!

So Katie is here now visiting me!!! She got in last monday and we've been hanging around Melbourne mostly. Last week, we did the tourist shuttle and walked around Queen Victoria Market and then hopped back on the shuttle and walked around the Royal Botanic Gardens. After that, we went up to the top of the Eureka Sky Deck building thing. It's a tall building...

On Friday of that week, we left for Sydney!! We stayed in a cute little hostel there, which was nice and cheap. The first day, we walked into the city through the Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens, which were pretty as well. We then realized we didn't have towels, and the hostel didn't provide towels, so we went to some tourist shop and got Australian themed towels to use. Then we went to go look at and walk around the Opera House. It was really pretty. As we were walking around we decided to go look at the box office and see what kind of shows were playing....then we decided to go see one!!! The one we originally wanted to see was sold out, but the ballet still had tickets, so we got them!!!!! An hour later, we were sitting in the Sydney Opera House watching a ballet!!! It was pretty awesome.

On Saturday, we got up early and caught a train/bus to Featherdale animal place thing. It took like an hour and a half of travel time. We got to do the whole kangaroo/wallaby/koala thing again which was cool. It was a long trip back too, and by that time we were pretty tired so we turned in around 9 pm that night, haha.

Sunday we had to check out by 10, so we left early for the aquarium. The aquarium was really cool!! After that, we took a water taxi from there to Circular Quay and got to ride under the bridge and see the opera house during the day which was very pretty. Then we went back to the hostel to pick up the duffel bag we left there, and we went and got lunch at the G'Day Cafe and we ate our food outside next to the harbor with the opera house as our backdrop. We walked around a bit more and watched some street performer lady stuff herself into a tiny box. Then it was time to go home!! It was really a fun trip!!!!

Yesterday, we spent all day shopping at Queen Victoria Market and Brunswick street. I have a buuunch of australia garbage to give everyone when I get home. I also bought this really cute purse/bag and shoes on Brunswick...oh, and me and Katie found an awesome churro place on brunswick, so we shared like 6 churros yesterday. They were delicious. Tomorrow, we have a reservation for the Great Ocean Road! That should pretty much be a full day trip and im sooo excited! It should be very pretty! Hopefully the weather is really good tomorrow. I dunno what we're doing on Friday, maybe going to a comedy club...and then saturday katie is leaving! :(

It's been really fun! I might get a chance to go to Western Australia after finals, but I gotta talk to some people..i don't wanna go by myself. Anyway, school's been okay..it's almost over! yay! I guess that's it...i don't want to put pictures on here cause it takes a really long time and is annoying, sorry!