It's 1130 pm on Wednesday night in Melbourne. Seren is packing. I'm researching GST refunds and baggage allowances. We've tracked many miles/kilometers over the last 9 1/2 weeks. It's been lots of fun and more of adventure than I've ever had in my life. I've seen quite a diversity of life and nature.
Today, we went to the Melbourne Holocaust Museum, Jewish Museum, the Melbourne Synagogue, ate lunch in Federation Square, visited the Immigration Museum (Seren did the tour, I did some ultimately-fruitless research in the library) and jump-started the Australian economy (even if it never hit the recession according to today's news). Afterwards, we went for our last fish and chips and beer meal with Jo and Darren, with Danzi and Jamie joining us for the latter part of the meal. When we got back home, the Rogers presented us with a beautiful Aussie challah cover (it says Shabbat Kodesh, I think, and has a koala on it).
This has been a great time. For some final inventory which Seren will likely expound upon: I used four deodorants, finished one toothpaste, bought one set of q-tips on the road (Melbourne; and remembered that generic q-tips are never the way to go), bought lots of clothing and drank quite a few beers. And we took probably 2000 photos and posted on the blog more than 160 times.
We saw Korean baseball and Aussie Rules Football; ate Korean sashimi and Aussie and Israeli sushi; sweated in the Dead Sea, Hong Kong, Cambodia and Thailand; went to spas or got massages in Israel (the Dead Sea), Korea, Thailand and Cambodia; drank Israeli, French, Korean, Cambodian, Thai and Aussie beers; used Aussie q-tips; got rained on in Israel (no more than 4 total drops of rain), France, Korea, Thailand and Australia; and had fun everywhere. We did more than we could ever have imagined.
But alas, the real world calls and it is time to return home. Until next time...
Love,
Craig
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