So I've been absent in the heat, its just too hot to sit at the computer in 40 degree heat with a little incubator inside you!
I have been just vegging on the lounge with the fan pointed straight on me! Thank goodness we had a cool change last night and we could all sleep well. I like hot weather, but I don't like it when it is stinking hard-to-breathe hot, especially when you're trying to sleep!! When I checked the weather Saturday night at 11:30pm my phone said it was still 39ºC! That is unbelieveable!!For my birthday breakfast in Melbourne I wanted to find a "Melbourne-type" cafe to eat at,
and I found it at Cafe Issus off Little Collins St (near Degraves St). Melbourne CBD is full of these cool little alley ways with dark, tight packed, funky cafes, very different to the usual Sydney cafes which sprawl out onto the footpath from bright interiors. This is where I had the awesome French Breakfast from the previous post. Highly recommended!!My birthday was our last full day in Melbourne so we had already done lots of tram-riding, CBD shopping, we'd been to St
Kilda and Chapel St, we went to Fitzroy after breakfast, so all that was left was to go to Docklands (and we were also on the lookout for somewhere for dinner). And what should we find at Docklands but Costco!! You know I have been so excited to watch the Costco be built opposite my usual Spotlight at Lidcombe, (still a few months off completion- boo!) so to actually get inside and see what it's all about had me very (unashamedly) excited! LOL! {giggles} Who would get excited about visiting a bulk-buy supermarket on their birthday? Me. Yep. Loved it. How do you like this giant bottle of Salsa?! Would you like a car-oil can sized bottle of BBQ sauce? Look no further! How about an industrial sized jar of Mayonnaise? I know where to find it :) It was so much fun wandering 
around seeing what they had. We couldn't buy anything cos it's a member-only shopping establishment but we could peruse the aisles with our visitor passes. They have everything from TV's to alcohol, nappies, outdoor furniture, frozen food (including pre-made frankfurts wrapped in pastry that you just chuck in the oven), Kitchenaids (yep!), giant slabs of cheese and butter (3Kg patty!) and huge Mud cakes and apple pies (only $20, bargain!) Anywho, it was awesome and a highlight of my birthday. LOL!After checking out the restaurants we returned to Degraves St in the CBD to another funky
Melbourne-style cafe for lunch :) Look at how packed in the tables are! The atmosphere here was soooo coool! We shared a delicious wood-fired Pizza and kept our tummys open for our dinner back at Docklands at the Lounge Hotel. How beautiful and glass-like is the water at Docklands! It was weird getting used to the sun setting so late in Melbourne too, I forgot that it was so much further West than Sydney, cos the sun didn't finish setting til after 9pm! It meant that while we ate our dinner we were able to watch all the lights come on at the CBD, it was lovely! And I ate ribs. YUM! I am such a carnivore. Poor Peabody had to shift over to one side to fit all the ribs in. LOL!
Once back at our hotel a little while later I finished off the giant piece of delicious Chocolate Nougat cake I had bought at Seasons Providores in Lygon St. It made for a beautiful birthday cake!!
So overall, we had a great time in Melbourne, despite the heat and cankles (where your calf meets your ankle due to swelling! ew!)! It was fun and great to get away from Sydney for a couple of days with Willy! We certainly enjoyed the trams and the food!
:) C
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The cafe looks gorgeous. Doesn't look like australia at all!
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