Update from Melbourne

Well, it's been a week that we've been in Australia and time continues to fly by! We had a great time at Keith's, and here are some highlights from the past week:

1. Went out with Keith and his friends to Extreme Kareoke. We did you all proud be belting out "Summer of 69" at the top of our lungs with true Canadian pride. We also sang "Paradise By The Dashboard Light" and somewhat regreted it after remembering how long the song is! Lastly, we did a duet with Keith -"The Time of My Life" from Dirty Dancing - and it was quite comical.

2. Visited Melbourne's version of Value Village and had a blast!

3. Met more of Keith's friends on Saturday. A few of them took us out to a party at Eureka Tower -the tallest reidential building in the world- which just opened on October 11th of this year. The building is 297.2m in height (300m above sea level), with 91 storeys above ground plus one basement level. It is one of only six buildings in the world with 90 or more storeys. It was a crazy experience - our ears popped in the elevator on the way up - and the view from the top was spectacular!

4. We decided that we're going to invest in bikes and camping gear and tour the country on two wheels! So the majority of the past week has been spent pricing out bikes and camping gear, and trying to get the best deal for our dollar! We want to tour the Great Ocean Road, Tasmania, and the East Coast. We'll do as much as we can on bike, and take buses when the weather's not in our favour.

5. One of Keith's freinds, James, has a beach house along the Great Ocean Road and he's offered to let us stay there on our tour, which should be pretty awesome!

6. Another one of Keith's friends, Dave, has taken us into his home and we've been here for the past two days. He lives with his parents, and they've been treating us like gold! We each have, not only our own bed, but our own room, and we've been told to help ourselves to anything we can get our hands on. His mom makes us supper every night, and last night was kangaroo!! It was really good, and tasted very similar to beek steaks. Funny thing about it was they'd never cooked it before, and Dave had never eaten it before - they only bought it so we could try it! They also GAVE us a cell phone! All we had to do was buy a SIM card!

Anyhow, that brings you pretty much up to date. We're hoping to buy our bikes today, and start our tour of the Great Ocean Road by the end of the week!