Aquarium and Melbourne Central
Sabriena and Shaina planned out an itenerary of activities for us, and then bought train tickets for the next day. So up super early to head into Ararat to catch the train (oh my god I wish they’d do a train to Horsham that wasn’t the $300pp Overland, I would totally do this every time we needed to go to Melbourne and not cart anything back, it beat the shit out of driving the whole way). It was our first time taking a coach train anywhere, and it was really nice. I think I napped a bit on the way in, which resulted in significantly less screaming than if I’d done the same thing while driving the van.
We hopped off at Southern Cross station, eventually figured out how the fuck to get out, then headed off to Batman Park to try find a sign for Flip (a big comic book nerd) to stand in front of for a photo. Regrettably, there isn’t one, unless we missed it. Straight across the street to the Aquarium to see some fish, which was very busy but thinned out as you get deeper into it, presumably as all the folks who brought kids in strollers who won’t remember shit realized that their kid wouldn’t make it through the entire thing.
After seeing a bunch of cool fish and hitting up the gift shop, we headed off to find something to eat. We figured we’d meander up to Melbourne Central, possibly stopping if something looked good on the way. We ended up getting there, where Duncan and I had Mexican that was, for once, entirely too spicy for my whitebread tastes, but I made it through it… it was really fucking good though. Shaina and Flip had Banh Mi which they said was pretty great.
We walked around the mall a bit, buying a few things here and there, with the kids spending any Christmas cash loot they got. We then headed back down and had a look at the Myer window display, which apparently people were complaining about but I thought looked pretty neat.
Originally we’d planned to see more stuff (there’s Polly Woodside, which is great, not to mention numerous gardens and so on), but we were pressed for time, so we basically just wandered back towards the station. Feet hurting, we had a coffee at Southern Cross station, while Duncan and Sabriena went back up to Dymmocks as we actually still had a bit before the train would arrive.
Despite the fact the station was incredibly busy and the signage pretty dreadful, we found our train and got boarded, ensuring we were on the front three cars due to them splitting the train at Ballarat. I napped again on the way home, before we jumped in the van to get home and fall asleep.
fwagglePublished:
Modified:
Filed under:
Location:
Melbourne Central/300 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne Central, Melbourne VIC 3000, AustraliaNavigation: Older Entry Newer Entry