Melbourne and?

It has officially been two weeks here in Australia, and we now have the hot weather we wanted when we were up at the beaches in Sydney. It was forecasted to be 37 degrees today. I wrote my Australasian board exams on Friday and Saturday, which were ok other than an interrogation of knowledge and practice by a panel of 4 Australian chiropractors - nervewracking!

With all of the studying for the exam, we did not tour melbourne much, other than walking through Fitzroy Gardens, the treasury gardens and JFK memorial, and through downtown (the "CBD"), bourke street mall and chinatown. So on saturday night we ventured ino St. Kilda, which used to be a seaside resort. It is now one of the city's livliest areas, with stylish restaurants and bars. We stopped for tapas before heading to the famour St. Kilda's cake shops (Thanks John, for the recommendation), and then met up with 2 former CMCC students at Red Eye, a night club that is part of a hostel (quiet night's sleep?). Yesterday we visited New York Tomato, a restaurant built into the back patio of a townhouse unit near our hostel, and then took the train to go look at some cars we were thinking about buying - but no luck yet. Today we visited the old melbourne gaol, built in 1841 and the site of the hanging of Ned Kelly as well as over 100 other prisoners. Next up, we're heading towards Lakes Entrance for a few days, and then back to melbourne.