Australia four

On the 4th day it rained most of the day. We took the chance to go to the big downtown train station to recon our trip back to the airport and spend the rest of the day at the market.

We all took a min-van taxi to our hotel from the airport. It cost us well over $100 (did I mention everything is expenssive here?). When we fly to Sydney we will take a buss to the airport and save $50-$60. Yay!

There is a big shopping mall attached to the train station. It's sad when the "sale" price is 2 men's shirts for $199! Ok, it wasn't ALL that bad, but pretty close. We needed to buy a pair of socks for Austin's chilly toes and the gormet children's store had us covered for $8. Ouch, but he was happy to have warm feet.

From the mall, we went to another one of Melbourne's markets to shop for our dinner and eat lunch. Cat picked out giant prawns and an ugly mud bug that tasted great but was hard to look at. See our flickr page for photos.

After we returned from the market we were very lucky to have both kids fall asleep for naps. It gave Cat and me a chance to go for a walk together w/o kids in the fun area down by the beach and the neighborhoods between here and there. The street we walked to is famous for its cake shops. It should be world renowned for its cakes shops. Wow. It all looked so good that we bought a slection of treats from two different shops. Perhaps another day we'll go buy something from the other 3 shops.

And much like the cakes, we also bought Elizabeth a fairy outfit due to unbearable cuteness.