Today we started with a trip to The Immigration Museum, http://museumvictoria.com.au/immigrationmuseum/ . It went through immigration to Australia from 1830 through today. The immigration policy of Australia was pretty interesting. They did not let many Asians into the country for quite a while, and they preferred, strongly, the British for most of their history. One interesting set of immigrants was from India, I think. The camelmen were recruited to come to Australia with their camels to connect settlements in the outback. Apparently some camels got away and bread in the outback, now there are thousands roaming free in the outback.
For lunch we headed for a bar or pub with burgers, we of course could not find one when we were looking. We ended up at an Italian place. It is strange some times you are seated at restaurants, sometimes they take the order for you at the table, other times the counter. and stranger still sometimes you pay at the table and sometimes at the counter. Nobody ever tells you what to do until you do something wrong. I am still confused about tipping so I put about 10% in a jar on the counter.
Next we headed to the Euerka Skydeck 88. On the way we passed by a few burger places, of course. I will be the first to tell you that I have a fear of heights, but only select heights, planes, and ski lifts are fine. When you get out of the elevator on the 88th floor the entire floor has glass all around. I was pretty petrified form getting anywhere near the glass for a while. There was even an outdoor area that was fenced in. I was pretty scared out in the wind but managed not to collapse on my own legs. There were some excellent views of the city, and once I am back in the US I will upload all of my pictures for everyone to see. There was a an extra adventure that you could do at the skydeck. It is called The Edge. It is a large glass box that starts out opaque and inside the building. When you get in it extends from the building and then the glass turns clear. You are 300m above the ground looking through glass below you feet. Ina really wanted to do, but I was having a hard enough time walking around inside let alone in a glass box. Ina took a nice little video of me walking on the exposed deck.
Recognize these tennis courts? This is where the Australian Open is Played. It is near the MCG, Melbourne Cricket Grounds, sight of the 1956 Olympics.
Doesn’t that look cool? Nope terrifying. I guess I just do not trust other Engineers. The windows are 24k gold plated as well.
You can see the outdoor observation area, and those are open windows. To aid in ventilation the windows can be open. This is also a residential building.
Ina and I had planned to go to a fancy pants art museum, but we decided since we were calling it fancy pants we probably should just go home. As we rode the train home the sky turned grey again, no rain, but it stopped our plans of going for a run.
For dinner we started things off with squid balls, they are quite fishy but still pretty good. Of course when it came time for dessert three desserts were pretty much forced on me, it would be rude to turn away such tasty treats though right?
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