more melbourne

After waiting 4 hours for the sun to rise, we began our second day in Melbourne with breakfast at another cute café located in another cute alleyway.


We ranked the Melbourne sights we wanted to see in order of significance/importance, and hit the first sight on our list, the Old Melbourne Gaol, heh heh. We learned about the imprisonment and hanging of Ned Kelly, one of Australia’s most notorious criminals, toured the different jail cells, and read about the science of death by hanging. We even took some photos of current prisoners, like Prisoner #1,


Prisoner #2,


and Prisoner #3. (And you thought the regression ended in Orlando.)




Our next destination was the Melbourne Museum. We started with the Deep Sea 3-D IMAX movie to inspire us for our upcoming visit to the Great Barrier Reef, and then went straight to the special exhibit, The Great Wall of China.


The Melbourne Museum had a really cool rainforest exhibit; it was like a mini-rainforest planted in an atrium, complete with trees, ponds, birds, bugs, and snakes. Except for the impeccably made wooden pathway in this photo, you’d have never known that we were not out in the real wild, right?


Here’s the view from the outside of the museum.


Before ending the day, we first had gelato,


then, dinner at Il Primo, an Italian café on Lygon Street.


And by “ending the day,” I mean falling asleep at 7 pm.