mini break....

I had a great little mini break in Melbourne last weekend with Jenny and two friends, Jennifer and Lynne who flew down from Queensland.
I love coming into Southern Cross Station with its big wave roof.....
We went to Paperific which was great, spent lots on nothing [oh we did stock up on some Tim Holtz inks and paint daubers [there were some good deals to be had...] but what was fun was seeing all these kids dressed up as their favorite Japanese anime characters...it was a big convention and they really went all out....

We tripped all over Melbourne taking pics of lots of graffiti, street art and the beautiful architecture of the buildings. This cake shop out was doing a roaring trade, you shoudlve seen the queues...i loved the inside with its loopy ceiling and huge stenciled mirror...

We also went to the Rose street artist market which had some beautiful handmade everything :) and great atmosphere.

loved this colorful character heralding the people into the market....




On our walk back to the tram we came across these lovely mosaic seats and these 3 random people just plonked them selves down and wanted pics taken, cute potato got in the act too...

We left Melbourne at 5ish , unfortunately we left poor Lynne behind minus her bag, money, mobile, her coat and her ticket !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fortunately, she had expensive jewelery she could hock [just kidding]

The V line staff were marvelous, really looked after her and put her on a train to Bendigo. She got back way before us as we got half way home and then went back to Melbourne to look for her ....visions of Jenny and me jumping off the train with a million bags and hiking it across the tracks to the other platform in the dark with just seconds to spare to catch the train back , it was a like something out of the keystone cops i tell you but all that ended well...