We stayed with nici Sister in Northcote for 10 days.  Mim(sister) and Tyson(sister's husband) are parents to Yuri(5) and Sacha(2).  The dynamics with our kids was pretty cool.  Melbourne in March great.  Trains, trams, wide streets, lots of shopping, also look at, Australian Wildlife we saw hot but not humid. We museumed, we festivalled(Thai festival, comedy festival - Wil Anderson, what a hoot) we caught up with a friend or two.  We aquarium, why not visit, Outskirts of Adelaide. Lake Alexandria and Handorf. we chinatowned, we bought clean skin wines , try, Yarongabilly Caves we window shopped.  Melbourne craps all over Sydney as far as a city is concerned i reckon.  Sydney is just too poorly laid out, has too little parking almost everywhere and terrible public transport in comparison.

We caught up with jasmine, my 17 year old daughter who lives , The Great Ocean Road in Melbourne, currently doing her final year of school at the Victorian School of Arts.  It was real nice to see her, though at times it seems it was only fleeting - apparently 17 year olds who also train in circus arts full time, baby look at, Armidale - old ghosts and new adventures sit 3 nights a week as well as have a new , Cool Stuff we saw in Australia boyfriend can be very busy.  Go figure.  But we made the most of the time we had. 

We were sad to leave Mim and Tyson's as it was comfortable and we'd enjoyed Melbourne very much, but the journey needed to continue.