Shopping Galore!

Saturday May 6th – We began the day by going to a café in Kew for coffee and breakfast. We then went into a Flight Centre (travel agent) and booked our trip to Tasmania for next weekend! We left the car in Kew and took the tram into the city centre and headed for the Queen Victoria Market. This is the huge open air market we had gone to briefly last weekend. We had a great time wandering through all the stalls and buying little snacks and stuff.

The fruit and vegetable section was huge, and I actually found sunflower seeds. Seeds are my favorite snack and finding them roasted and in the shell is quite difficult here. I also finally found new running shoes, as the shoes I have been wearing are trashed. I love Asics but here in the retail shops the model I like was selling for $240! I sure didn’t want to pay that much. I actually found two pairs I liked so I bought both.After wandering around for a couple of hours we came across a foot massage place, much to our delight. Ever since Singapore we are hooked on a good foot massage and reflexology. By this time it was 4pm and the market had closed.



We went in search of Starbucks and stumbled across some more shops that were amazingly still open. (Shown here) We spent another happy couple of hours wandering around Melbourne, people watching and window shopping. Don’t worry honey, even though we shopped all day I really didn’t spend that much money!
Originally we had planned to go to a Footy game this evening but Grant called and cancelled and it was pretty windy and cold so we opted for the movies instead. I wanted to go to Gold Class again but it was already sold out for the movies we wanted so we went to the regular theatre. Interestingly here in Australia when you go to the movies you buy assigned seating. It’s kind of nice because you don’t end up having to go really early and stand in line to get good seats for new releases. We saw Mission Impossible III which I really enjoyed. It’s non stop action from beginning to end!