Brendan and his parents came out to visit last weekend, which was fantastic! I love it when I have people to hang out with in this country!!
Saturday, I attempted driving for my second time to go to the airport and pick them up. Crazy right-sided driving on the left side of the road. Still incredibly difficult! I must have let my guard down a bit though b/c I got honked at more this time than last. I also got a pretty good piece of a curb (I hope Mark doesn't read this...). It also didn't help that on the way back from the airport, we had 4 people and 8 suitcases in one car. Brendan decided to use his parents as luggage mules, so that we don't have to ship our toys via the boat. I have no idea how I am going to move out of my serviced apartment by myself now based on the amount of stuff in there...
Saturday we went to a few house inspections (Fitzroy) and then wandered through QVM and the CBD. We saw Fed Square, the Yarra River, the Docklands... we had beer and coffee sporadically throughout the day... we had a nice Italian dinner... (I had smoked salmon pizza - yummy, Carol had lasagna supposedly with egg cooked in it, although she didn't find it, but what an interesting concept).
Sunday brekky: I had the biggest and fattest slices of bacon I've ever seen and Brendan had pancakes topped with rasberries and ice cream! How can you beat that?!? Sunday day we spent most of the day at the Melbourne zoo. I saw kangaroos (one with a joey popping out of its pouch), emus, a platypus, giant turtles, strange birds, butterflies, peacocks, koalas... all of the animals were fantastic and I did not feel nearly as bad for them in this zoo as I did in Tokyo. I was the only one without a camera at the zoo and I have yet to see any pictures from anyone else, but check out http://shoutaround.blogspot.com/ for the 'roo and joey! So cute! After the zoo, we ventured to St. Kilda to see the beach and catch up on our liquids, mainly of the beer variety. For dinner we found an irish pub and I finally had a parma. Too bad it was far too large to eat and apparently in Australia you have to be licensed for take away to stock take away boxes, even for leftovers. Note to my Mom, we should split meals when you visit.
Monday was back to work as usual and I have decided that this Saturday is apartment hunting 
Saturday (St. Kilda this time). I made this map for all of the apartments that I want to try and see on Saturday color-coded by hour of the day that they are open for inspection. I know that I'm a huge nerd, but do you see how many colors there are?!?! Yeah, that's what I said.
In the spirit of the previous photo, and for lack of other photos, I included some from Brendan, Drake, and my previous backpacking trip to Little Yosemite.
Un hombre no puede leer. Subio sin ropa!
My tunnel!
Interesting US sign
This is me on snow, in shorts, in front of a running river with attitude! I love spring in Yosemite!
Saturday, I attempted driving for my second time to go to the airport and pick them up. Crazy right-sided driving on the left side of the road. Still incredibly difficult! I must have let my guard down a bit though b/c I got honked at more this time than last. I also got a pretty good piece of a curb (I hope Mark doesn't read this...). It also didn't help that on the way back from the airport, we had 4 people and 8 suitcases in one car. Brendan decided to use his parents as luggage mules, so that we don't have to ship our toys via the boat. I have no idea how I am going to move out of my serviced apartment by myself now based on the amount of stuff in there...
Saturday we went to a few house inspections (Fitzroy) and then wandered through QVM and the CBD. We saw Fed Square, the Yarra River, the Docklands... we had beer and coffee sporadically throughout the day... we had a nice Italian dinner... (I had smoked salmon pizza - yummy, Carol had lasagna supposedly with egg cooked in it, although she didn't find it, but what an interesting concept).
Sunday brekky: I had the biggest and fattest slices of bacon I've ever seen and Brendan had pancakes topped with rasberries and ice cream! How can you beat that?!? Sunday day we spent most of the day at the Melbourne zoo. I saw kangaroos (one with a joey popping out of its pouch), emus, a platypus, giant turtles, strange birds, butterflies, peacocks, koalas... all of the animals were fantastic and I did not feel nearly as bad for them in this zoo as I did in Tokyo. I was the only one without a camera at the zoo and I have yet to see any pictures from anyone else, but check out http://shoutaround.blogspot.com/ for the 'roo and joey! So cute! After the zoo, we ventured to St. Kilda to see the beach and catch up on our liquids, mainly of the beer variety. For dinner we found an irish pub and I finally had a parma. Too bad it was far too large to eat and apparently in Australia you have to be licensed for take away to stock take away boxes, even for leftovers. Note to my Mom, we should split meals when you visit.
Monday was back to work as usual and I have decided that this Saturday is apartment hunting 
Saturday (St. Kilda this time). I made this map for all of the apartments that I want to try and see on Saturday color-coded by hour of the day that they are open for inspection. I know that I'm a huge nerd, but do you see how many colors there are?!?! Yeah, that's what I said.
In the spirit of the previous photo, and for lack of other photos, I included some from Brendan, Drake, and my previous backpacking trip to Little Yosemite.
Un hombre no puede leer. Subio sin ropa!My tunnel!
Interesting US sign
This is me on snow, in shorts, in front of a running river with attitude! I love spring in Yosemite!
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