First stop, the Melbourne Aquarium. Loads of fun. We saw penguins (omigod cute), sharks, turtles and lots of fish and jellyfish and fish and crabs and lobsters and fish.
Second, we went to the Aussie Rules game between the Magpies (go the pies!) and the other team with blue and red. The other team one. The game was fun. It was in a huge stadium (ie large diameter) with about 50k people. I'm not going to explain the rules, except to say that it is slow-developing, kind of like soccer. There is not so much explosive play. Also, while there are many collisions, because the players don't wear protective gear, they aren't as hard-hitting as in American football. The rules are quite simple and easy for us to follow as novices. The hardest part was seeing the whole field from our seats due to the large field of play. We had good seats care of Simon (Tammy's husband) and went with Jo and Darren.
Next came dinner with Jo, Darren and our hosts. Some thai.
And now, we're going to bed. Tomorrow, we're seeing kangaroos.
Tootles
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