The "Home Straight"

Monday morning was all go again.  We did a "Chocolate" tour of Melbourne.  We visited many of Melbourne's best known chocolate spots.  You can put on weight just by looking at them.

We had a quick trip to Little Bourke St to see the many Chinese Restaurants there.  We had a quick bit to eat in a food court before Ian and I headed to Young And Jackson's and the famous nude painting of Chloe. A couple of pots of beer followed!

Early afternoon Trish and I caught the tram back to St Kilda for a rest prior to our night out on the Tramcar Restaurant.  We all met in the city at the Casino's Sports Bar for a drink and a look around.  By 8:30 we were at a nearby tram stop ready to board the especially fitted out trams.

This was another highlight of the trip to Melbourne. The food was great, the company exceptional and the drinks just kept flowing!

There were three trams, each with around 36 customers on board.  The food selection was limited but the quality was great.  There was enough to eat, we all had the rib eye steak as a part of our 5 course meal.  There was wine and beer as well.

Everyone was there for a good time and it had a real party atmosphere about it.

Trish and I eventually got back to St Kilda around midnight after a wonderful night out.  We were beginning to slow down just a little bit!

On Tuesday we all met again in St Kilda for a walk around and fish and chips for lunch.  It was over 30 degrees and the constant eating, drinking and enjoying was beginning to take toll.  We were heading home early the next morning so the day finished quietly with Ian and Kerrie heading back to the city to pack up and get ready for an early Wednesday morning aeroplane departure back home.

We had a steak with Kim in a St Kilda pub that night and eventually hit the sack around 9:30pm, exhausted.

The flight home went well.

It had been a never to forget week with friends in Melbourne.

You can read about the other antics we got up to in the two posts below!