Category: Australia

Another evening stroll

Tonight I took another evening stroll and walked along Flinders Street, past the station and towards Southern Cross Station, or Spencer Street Station as I had known it. This was the station I came in to when I used to commute into the centre for work, 11 or so years ago.

I then walked up and along Bourke Street bridge, following my old route to work as I headed towards my workplace at the Telstra Dome (now called Marvel Stadium). I remember the bridge but didn’t recognise the rest of the area so I assume there has been lots of new developments since I was last there. It was good to be back though. I enjoyed living and working in Melbourne all those years ago!

The Australian Open

Today we went back to Federation Square and got some more free sun screen. Then we went back to the hilltop and went on the Sky Flyer 2 times. We got a free lanyard for our ticket. We also got some free chips. Then we went to the tennis park.

We played lots of tennis games. I also went on a ninja course and climbing wall where you could jump off. Sam went on a trampoline and zipwire as well. We also saw a PJ Mask show and got some more freebies. I went on stage for a tennis competition and Sam went on stage for a lego building competition.

We saw a Fortnite competition. There were lots of big screens and the winner got $100,000. In the game loads of people died at the last minute.

We walked over to the main tennis courts and saw some people play tennis. We saw some people dressed up as tennis balls.

We watched some the men’s finals tennis on the big screen (in the Margaret Court Arena). We left early and got a tram and watched the rest of the final at Federation Square. It was very late.

Federation Square and AO Hilltop, Melbourne

Today we went to Federation Square and we got lots of free sun screen and we had lots of goes on a game where we had to grab tennis balls. We won 6. Then we went to a park at the top of a hill near the Square. We went into the splash zone and we played with water guns. We also went on a ride called the Sky Flyer. We went on it 4 times.

(Note from parents: the Australian Open tennis tournament is taking place in Melbourne so there is lots of stuff happening around Federation Square at the moment. We got given lots of free sun screen today, despite it being cloudy and rainy! However, it has been hot and sunny throughout the tournament.)