Melbourne times

Last week in Melbourne (no longer last week.. this was the 1st week i was back after my trip)
On Monday showed Michiel around the downtown, we went along the Yarra river, on Bourke street mall, to the docklands (where I had never been during the day) and then the exhibition centre before splitting ways. He then came over on Tuesday night for a nice homemade dinner and to come see the lovely children. The rest of the week was back to normal routines with the kids who I did miss, and luckily they had also missed me and were very happy to see me again J

On the weekend Katrina came back and on Sunday we went to go see the formula 1 racing. It was quite the excitement, we met up there with my friend Roman who I had met on my cloud 9 trip from Darwin to Alice springs which was good since he knew a ton about racing and explained it all to us.

There were a few races with mini coopers and other types of cars until the big race at 5pm. We found a nice place to sit right after the corner on a hill where we could also see the tv screen (which is a must cuz if not it’s even more impossible to try and follow the race). There were also some pretty cool airplane shows, little red planes doing all sorts of formations and a jet that was crazy, at one point it shot straight up like a rocket twirled and kept going until we couldn’t see it anymore.. it never did come back haha.. oh and the highlight of the show.. a quantas jet flying over (which I guess we learnt after is now the biggest plane in the world).
Finally the race started, first race of the season and first go with these new cars. It was very impressive to see all these cars going by so fast and also soooo loud.. luckily some lady had some extra ear plugs to give us….because the cars get so spread out after the pit stops and such that its just a continuous loud especially cuz we were right after a corner so they sped up right infront of us. Anyway all this for a not to exciting final, because there was an accident in the last few laps due to the 3rd place car trying to pass the 2nd place car (apparently a stupid move this far into the race) there was an accident.. meaning the safety car had to come out and due that last few laps with the race cars (and when the safety car comes out no one is aloud to pass each other), what a grand finale haha.

And last but not least the who concert was also included in our ticket. They were awesome!!!! The lead singer and guitarist was such a comedian and awesome host dude. All in all a marvellous day.

Other than that Leslies back in town for a few days… Katrinas left Melbourne now about a week ago.. And Alexi is back from south east asia!! Woohooooo!!