An Extra Shot of Fabulous: Where to start??

I have so much to share. I just looked at my like 400 pictures that haven't been blogged about.goodness. And there is the little tidbit that I am leaving in 3 DAYS! three days, people. insanity.

So instead of blogging I should probably be figuring out how to pack my life from the last 5 months up again, doing the heaps of laundry I have, and cleaning my room that has somehow managed to turn into a tornado despite the fact that I have been in my room maybe 20 hours since I got home from Melbourne and 90% of that time I was sleeping....(I snapped some pics because it is literally that bad, but then I decided I would like to see my mother again before she has a heart attack so I will refrain from sharing them:))

I think I will start a week ago when I left for Melbourne. So here we go...

My flight for Melbourne left at 7, which sounded good when I booked it because a. it was cheaper and b. then I would have a whole day to enjoy in Melbourne. But on the morning of when I had to wake up at 4:30 to catch the train to make it to the airport in time, it was the worst idea ever. And then, being brilliant as usual, forgot to actually look at the handy list I had made to make sure I remembered everything and got half way to the train station and realized I didn't have my phone charger. I decided being stranded without a phone was no bueno so I quick went back to get it, missed the train, PANICKED, made the next train, and got to my gate just fine anyways. Then when I got Melbourne I realized just how awesome I really was that day and realized I hadn't written down or printed out directions on how to get to my hostel or even the address. fail. and it was raining. double fail. Thank goodness for cafes with wifi. So even though Melbourne and I started out a little rocky the trip got much better from there.

Here are some pics from my wandering in Melbourne.

A wet, cold Melbourne.

Melbourne park provides free showers....I kid. It's a pretty sweet fountain.

Artsy. Melbourne tries really hard to be urban and artsy. They are mostly successful.

Winter branches.

St. Peter's, St. Mary's?? anyways, some church.

I love city parks, it's pretty fab to be like city.city.PARK!!!

Gorgeous trees, that they ruined by wrapping them in gray, metal sweaters???

Federation Square, a building of cool looks and multiple purposes.

Melbournians love to talk about their cool little lane-ways. I think it's mostly to make all their dark alleys that could be seen as dodgy seem cool. But this one had some pretty sweet graffiti and some of them do contain seating for pretty fab cafes...