Our ship stopped in Melbourne for the day. We opted for the kangaroos and koalas tour, which was a total rip. Wen only saw one koala. We did get to chase down a huge herd of emus, which are enormous and leave huge puddles of crap everywhere. Gross. After that we walked through a huge field of wheat or something to find about 20 giant kangaroos. We stood and watched them and the watched us. Then they hopped around which is always exciting.
After that we trammed into melbourne to get quick glimpse of the city. Melbourne is "super cute" (Beth's words). Its pronounced "Melbun" with just a smattering of an "r". Similar to Cairns/Cannes. The town was packed with people but no Christmas decorations. The city is super clean and has a very impressive organized public bike rental along with trams, trolleys and horse drawn carriages.
Now we're heading back to the boat, where we'll hit the gym and sauna before gorging ourselves at dinner.
A few misc cruise and other notes:
-I haven't trimmed my beard in two weeks and we've zoomed right through manly, awesome and really awesome straight to kind of gross on the bear scale. Beth says she won't kiss me after Saturday.
- We can't wait for Christmas. Hopefully they'll stop the round the clock Christmas songs on the PA system.
- Despite the fact that we are travelling south of Australia the bar offers a South of the Border selection of drinks, which are all Mexican drinks. Technically that would be north. Hopefully we get to Hobart.
- Went to go iron some clothes today. Beth lamented that she hadn't been taught how to iron in school since girls were now required to learn silly things like "math" (actual quote). Setting women back 100 years, but making me happy.
- If you have more than 6 tattoos, you probably are too cool to be on a princess cruise.
- If you are religious enough to go to mass and sing christmas carols in the atriun, you probably should be at church and not on a cruise.
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