Saturday afternoon

After lunch we decided to give our feet a little rest, so we took the tram to St. Kilda’s beach. It is still pretty chilly but was a great day for walking along the esplanade. They also have a very old amusement park there with a roller coaster modeled after the first one build in Coney Island, NY.



Just as we got to a good ending point, it started to shower, so back we went to town to see some of the Saturday activities.

Melbourne has a strange mélange of architectural styles. The Federation square:



Is right across the street from the train station:



In Federation Square they were having something called “Saturday Jam” for children. The ones who brought instruments were put in groups (winds, percussions, strings, etc.) They were given series of notes or tempos to play. The ones without instruments were given newspapers. (Yes, we watched them play the newspaper - scrunch, scrunch, flat) Then they put it all together. It sounded pretty good and looked like everyone was having a ball.

We went to a great restaurant for dinner. It was in the middle of Albert Park and we can see its reflection on the windows of the building outside of our window. It is the black one on the right.




We started with a gift from the chef: a tiny cup of mushroom soup with a cheese straw. We both had the marrow bone on toast with salad and sea salt for the entrée. It came as two bones sitting upright on the plate. We had marrow spoons to scoop it out and put it on the toast. I had lamb cooked 4 ways (chop, steak, stir fried, and spring roll) Chuck had roast suckling pig. For dessert we shared a passion fruit tart with vanilla ice cream.

Then home to bed. We managed to stay up until 9.