The plan for today was to go to St. Kilda, a beach area, then glow minigolf, and finally Eureka Skydeck 88. When we left the house the sky was blue and the sun was shinning. By the time we got onto the train the sky had gone Ithacan, totally grey. We got off the train to transfer to a tram to get to St. Kilda. Much like Ithaca it began to rain, it is in the low 50’s by the way. We reevaluated our plans and decided to go to minigolf. We had to navigate a few more trams before we made it to Dockland, http://www.docklands.com/cs/Satellite?pagename=Docklands and then onto Harbor Town Shopping center. There used to be a massive Ferris wheel, but during a heat wave they found problems in the support structure, so they had taken much of it apart.
Part of the shopping center was a bike shop, www.bikeforce.com.au . It made me drool, so many brands that are hard to find in the US, BMC, Argon, Orbea, Look, Ridley, Pinarello. I just wanted to buy so much, they even had bikes still in boxes ready for the plane. They also had a large selection of fixed gears for the growing messenger/hipster scene.
The mini golf was kind of disappointing, http://glowgolf.com.au/ . I still managed to beat Ina, of course scoring the way she counts she beat me by 4 strokes.
We had a quick lunch at a small Japanese place. I had a bento box and might just have to get another one in a few days. We looked through a few more shops that were all having huge end of the financial year sale. We both decided we could buy everything back in the states and left empty handed. The weather had cleared, but just as we talked about going to the skydeck, http://www.eurekaskydeck.com.au/ the rain slowly began again.
We still got a few great picture of Ina and a few statues in the docklands. There a number of high rise apartment buildings looking right over the water. An AFL stadium looks right out over the water as well.
We hopped back on a tram and then a train to get back home. The sun was shinning as we got off the train, so we had a nice walk back to the house.
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