Melbourne

Arrived yesterday after a 29-hour flight.  Sitting in one spot in a darkened plane for 16-hours straight is NOT fun!

Was met downtown by M and D, two friends of friends who were awesome enough to offer me a place to crash and people to hang with.  The weather outside was freaking AMAZING, so we grabbed some beers and sat in the sun to drink for a while.  Didn't take long before I began to fade though, and we went back to M's where I passed out until 8 this morning.  Eeek!

So today, my real first day here begins.  It's 11am right now, and I've just booked myself on the following tours for while I'm here: Monday I'm doign the Great Ocean Road (http://gowest.com.au/great-ocean-road.html) and Wednesday I'm doing the Grampians (http://www.ecoplatypustours.com/tours/sov.htm).  I also really want to do the Phillips Island tour (http://gowest.com.au/phillip-island-day-tour.html) and could do that Tuesday, but I don't want to book up all of my days just yet as I leave Thursday for Perth.  So we'll see.

Right now I'm heading back to Ms where hopefully he's up and feels like spending the day out in the sun with me, it's SO gorgeous out right now!