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| A Possum that we saw on our walk |
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| Downtown Melbourne and the Yarra River |
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| St. Patrick's Cathederal |
Today was another big day of travel. Starting in Boston, we flew to San Francisco, continued on to Auckland, New Zealand, and finally, flew into Melbourne, Australia. All together it consisted of 24 hours in an aircraft, a few hours of layovers, and we skipped Wednesday, April 15 crossing the international date line. In the Auckland airport, there were many gift shops selling wool (New Zealand is one of the largest exporters of wool in the world with more sheep than people), and Kiwi bird related items such as stuffed animals and bottle openers. The kiwi is a small, brown, furry, flightless bird distantly related to the ostrich, which is the national bird of New Zealand. When we got to Melbourne, we went to our hotel room to drop off our luggage, and went in search of lunch. We easily found a small restaurant on one of many tucked in pedestrian streets called a laneway (similar to the US alleyway) where we had a sandwich before continuing on to do some more sight seeing. We saw a Gothic revival cathedral called St. Patrick's and walked along the Yarra River promenade where we saw many restaurants lining it's banks.
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