I guess I am going to start out with the Queen Victoria Market. We loved going to the market. If you received any souvenirs from us it was most likely from this market. The Queen Victoria Market is the largest open air market in the southern hemisphere. We lived with in walking distance and would walk up to it every once in a while.
You could pretty much get anything you wanted here from fruits and vegetables to shoes, souvenirs, toys, clothes, even fabric.
The fruits and veggies were pretty reasonably priced. Towards the end of the day all of the food vendors were marking everything down. We didn't get a video of it, but they would be yelling out the price discount and trying to out due the other vendors. Pretty cool to watch. We liked to wait until the afternoon to get the good deals.
Port Melbourne Primary School. This is where Emma went to school. It was a good experience for her. She was able to do a swimming course and learned to swim on her own. She participated in the school play "The Lion, The Witch and the Walk-in Robe".
To the left is Fred the crossing guard who helped us cross the street everyday.
It was formally known and Graham Street School before becoming Port Melbourne because it was located on Graham Street. It was a pretty old school. They had recently undergone renovations and added new buildings.
We love IGA...
IGA was located at the bottom of our building where we lived. It was a small grocery store where you could get almost everything.
The name of the street on which we lived.
Our garage door. About 100 other people also used this garage door to our parking garage.
Our Boeing friends who happened to be coming out of their apartment just when we were out taking pictures. They lived in the building next to us.
Medici's restaurant. This was the first place we went the morning we flew in. We had breakfast there. It was one of the many restaurants along the boardwalk underneath the apartments where we lived. We really like Medicis. They made the best sticky date pudding.
So I have no idea why this is side ways. I rotated it and it shows up rotated but then I load it onto blogger is does this. So this is the gelato stand also on the board walk. We went there way too many times.
Just a picture of the walk way below where we lived. We walked up and down this all the time. Usually with the girls on their scooters and Cooper in the stroller.
A look up to our balcony. We have the grill on the end.
The front entrance to our building. It was very secure. You couldn't just walk in. If we got a package in the mail the mail man had to call up to our apt and let us know to come down and get it. Or we had to push certain buttons on the phone system to open the door for them and let them up on the "lift" or elevator.
Waiting for the lift. They got very used to this.
We lived on the 13th floor
The hall down to our apartment
Again.. not sure why this isn't turned. Emma and Dottie with their friends from church Brooke and Becca.
This is what they were usually doing in between classes. Chasing each other around the building even though I told them not to. The only interaction Dottie had with kids was at church so she was not very reverent at church. Oh well. They were happy to have the girls in primary as there was only 10 other kids. Lots of singles with no children in that ward.
Around the City. This was taken at Federation Square in the City. (Also where Oprah did a public appearance, if your into that). When ever we went into the city we walked. It was just easier that way.
Of course you could rent one of these cool bikes. They had these all over and you didn't have to return it to the same place you got it from. They had one of these by our place as well. We never did get one though, ha. To much trouble with the kids I guess. I am not even sure how expensive it was.
Flinders Street Station. This is the main railway station in the city. Always very busy on this corner. Lots of people.
And of course Burger King.. I mean
Hungry Jacks. Everything was the same except the name. Click on the link to read more about it.
On the farm they had lots of other animals which were all miniture animals except the Ostriches of course. Here is Emma with one of them.
We also visited the Kiwi house in Otorohanga. We had to see a Kiwi in New Zealand. Sad we could not take pictures of it but it was the funniest looking bird we have ever seen. It almost looked fake to us. It was interesting to watch it.
Here are the Glowworms. (They are not really worms)They may sometimes resemble worms, but all are insects.
Coming out of the caves. The girls and I did get a chance to go just not on the same tour Jordan went on . We went on a walking tour. But this almost looks like the same entrance that we went down. Just a hole in the ground. We went in the evening about 8pm. I wasn't sure I was going to get the girls down there. We talked about it I told them it was going to be dark. We made it and once they saw the glowworms they thought it was so cool that they didn't have any more problems. We saw the river that Jordan floated down. Our tour guide was actually the son of our hosts at the B&B. So the reason we went in the evening is because when we came out of the cave and up the stairs it was dark outside at this point and the glowworms were all over the walls but you couldnt seem them unless it was dark. It literally looked like stars like the pictures above (I found online).
