SO, after leaving Bangkok, my flight arrived in Sydney, where I transferred to my next plane. My flight arrived in, on time, got my luggage, and had to go through customs. In the customs line, my flight leaves 8:00am, it's 7:30. I asked the man working "my flight leaves at 8, is this going to be a problem to catch it?" "it's no problem for me" Gee, thanks. I make it through go to catch a bus to another terminal, get bussed there, find there's another girl on my flight that had asked (I assume the same man) the same question, and got the same answer. We get to the terminal to drop off our bags. Because we had bording passes they let us put in our luggage, but the system was down so everone else had to wait. The TV screen said that the gate for our flight was closed. Both of us full out ran through the airport, made it to the gate, got on the plane.... only to have it delayed because of the system being down -- they couldn't tell who all was on the flight and where they were sitting enough to be able to balance the plane. Anyway, made it to Melbourne, but my luggage didn't arrive in until 2 flights later. I wasn't concerned, I assumed it would happen. Luckily, 2 flights later was only 1 hour later for me to physically have my luggage. From there I got a shuttle to St. Kilda, a suburb of Melbourne about 5km south of city central.
I made it there and was so tired from my flights I just went to bed. A little later I went in to city center just for a bit, to feel I had accomplished something. The tram picks up about a 3 minute walk from my hostel and goes directly in -- very easy.
That night was a free barbeque at the hostel so I met people staying (some, more like... living) there. a few of us decided to meet the next morning to go in to the art museum. The next morning we got up, had a few errands to do city center, so we all went in there (art museum is there too), first went to some different exhibitions in various galleries across from FLinders St. train station. From there we walked back across the bridge to go to see the Art Deco Exhibition (VERY GOOD!). After, we decided to go see the War Memorial which was through the park across the street. I have never seen parakeets except for as people's pets, but they were in the trees there! Crazy. We went back out to St.Kilda and I went to take some pictures of the area and to see the beach there.
THe next day (Friday) I flew to Sydney.
I'll post the link to the photos I'm uploading soon.
