Upgraded room and another interesting day.

WE started the day very early. The AC cut out in the room about 12:30 am, the neighbors were having some sort of argument with lots of people involved, coming and going, shoutingin Chinese, and slamming doors. In the morning, I called the manager and "Sue' upgraded our room. WE now have a room twice as large with real windows facing the street. A beautiful room and view. Yeah!

This is the Parliment Building. We took a tour which turned out to be an interesting one.

Queen Victoria.

Listening intently to our guide.

Beautiful. All gold leaf.

Amazing chandeleirs. This building was built during the gold rush.

The uppper house.

The Parliment Library

Early photo of the Parliment.

Early photo of the Parliment Library.

Lunch at the Hof Brau Haus.  This is a yummy appetiszer made of fried bread with garlic. We have never had anything like it. I think they call it langosch. I will check on this.

Another photo of the steps of Parliment where I sat for an hour waiting for the tour.

A beautiful couple in the garden.

Fountain outside the Parliment.

An early watercolor done by Hoddle when he mapped the streets of Melbourne.

Hoddle's survey journal.

Early posters of Melbourne.

Doherty's in Melbourne.

The Treasurey Building.

An aboriginie at the Moomba Festival. He got the crowd drumming and really going. It was really great.

A sign on a septic truck!

Another signon the truck.

A beautiful view of the city from the Yarra River.

This is a four day festival for Australia's Labour Day.

They have water skiing contests on the Yarra River. Fun to watch.

A sign in a pub. 

SEcond half of the sign.

St. Paul's Anglican Cathedral builtin 1850. 

Coin Operated Art!. Give him a coin and he starts to paint.