January 20, 2011 MELBOURNE

Today we did the tourist thing. We went to to cricket grounds in Melbourne. It was interesting to see a stadium that is extremely old and so was our tour guide. I'm pretty sure he was borderline senile. But he knew a lot of interesting facts and had some pretty clever jokes.

After our tour we went back and rested until about 7 where we went down to Federation Square where we went to see a play called The Summer of the Seventeenth Year or something like that. It was based off of the history of cane harvesters in the off season who would travel to the city. It was actually quite sad but I guess reality can be sad sometimes. I enjoyed it because it gave me a sense of the Melbourne culture and where people came from. Tomorrow we travel to Auckland New Zealand. I don't really know what to expect but I'm really excited!!