Only two more weekends in Melbourne. What to pack into the day?
How about a morning tram ride to Flinders Street Station?
Followed by a stop at the Melbourne Visitors Center, where we bought a couple of souvenirs at the gift shop. Then, we hopped back onto a tram to Melbourne University, for a self-guided campus tour.
First stop, my office.
Yeah, the interior color choice is unusual. Green walls, yellow doors, dark purple accents, and a lovely lilac wall that I'm not showing at the other end of the hall. Different. But a fine place to get work done.
Here is the outside of the building. It's really quite a nice building, as you can see.
From there, we wandered over to the Arts Quad, where the famous camellias were in bloom. But we didn't take any pictures of camellias. Instead, here are Jonathan and I in the quad.
We walked from the edge of campus over to the Queen Victoria Market, where we ate lunch and grabbed jam donuts from a truck. Yummy.
And then, since we had some time, and happened to be right by the appropriate tram stop, we headed north to the Melbourne Zoo! To see our last koalas.
And the family favorite wombats.
(We even saw live wombats, not just sculpture wombats. And other animals, too. I still love the platypus nearly the best, by the way, but since he is nocturnal, no photos for you.)
After a couple of hours in the zoo, we caught the tram back into the city, for Footy!
Freemantle was crushed by St Kilda. Crushed! And they thought Freemantle was a good team....
So there you go. Can you think of anything -- anything -- more quintessentially Melbourne that we could have done in that single 12 hour period? Anything?
I thought not.
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