Canberra/Melbourne


3 Hours after departing Sydney we found ourselves in the most exciting place in the world, Canberra, the nations capital!!!!! Ahh sarcasm... Nice place to visit for a day but anything more would be tedious indeed. Their claim to fame is the awe inspiring water-jet memorial to Captain Cook that fires once every hour and the modernized capital building. AMAZING. It was a nice break from the crazyness of Sydney anyways before we made our way to Melbourne. We arrived at the host city of the Commonwealth Games at 11:00pm on St. Patrick's Day after the 8 hour bus ride. Needless to say we had some catching up to do :) Melbourne really went all out for these games, apparently it was an even 3 years in the making, and it showed. There were free shows every day and night, the population of the city doubled overnight and it was a party all the time! The people of Melbourne were a lot more layed back and easy-going then in Sydney as well. We FINALLY got to see a kangaroo, even though it was a prisoner in the Melbourne Zoo. We spent the next 2 weeks getting to know our hostel-mates, playing in poker tournaments and eating free pancakes for breakfast. Nothing tastes better at 7:00am after a loooong night :) We even got in touch with Ayeala, it was great to see her again. Also met up with our American friend Bob whom we met in Sydney. He's a great guy and a blast to party with. He stayed at the Coffee Palace hostel with us for a couple days and decided to accompany us on the next leg of our journey...








Matt + Bob + Goon =