Good evening!

As we left the hotel this morning the rain had stopped, so we were in luck. We crossed the street and found some stores there. We tried to find out what was the best option for us in terms of sim cards for our phones and internet for the laptop. To avoid the rain outside, we browsed hrough some clothing stores comparing prices between here and Los Angeles.

After having seen all the shops we went into the train station, which was directly next to the shopping centre. We bought a day ticket here for unlimited travel by train, bus and tram, so we wouldn't get ourselves stuck in the position again of having to walk all the way back to the hotel.

It was still raining so we hopped on the first tram which conveniently took us into the city centre, and when we hopped off the skies had cleared. We aimlessly walked around a little bit untill we stumbled upon Chinatown and the Greek district. We didn't spend much time here and moved right along (because it started to rain again) to find a nice restaurant and have some lunch.

While having delicious chicken schnitzel and fish 'n chips we plotted our course for the day, and possibly the days after. We were close to the State Library so we decided to go there first, and continue from there.

The library was incredible, nothing like where I had to study back in high school! There were also 2 free exhibitions which we checked out, one which told the story of Ned Kelly. We spent some time here before moving on towards the Melbourne Gaol (Jail). Fortunately the rain had stopped again.

We had thought to take an alley leading up to the back of the jail but this wasn't possible since the police had sealed it off. We didn't really see what was going on untill about 20 (could be more, could be less) police men ran towards the entrance of a building. They knocked someone to the ground and tried to take (what we later found out to be) a gun from him. We had to walk around though and the jail itself wasn't that special.

From here it was a small walk to Carlton Park, the Royal Exhibition building and the Melbourne Museum. We went inside the museum and to our suprise we got free admission because the museum closed at 5 pm. This gave us about 45 minutes to rush through it all, which to be fair, was not enough time. We however did not waste any and saw most of it, including the rain forrest inside.

We're going to get a simple meal for dinner. We'll see you all tomorrow!

Jeremy