Day of a million meals

After spending the past months eagerly looking forward to our honeymoon, it is finally upon us! We got to the airport without incident via caltrain and bart and arrived in plenty of time to eat our first dinner of pizza and a caprese sandwich at a small cafe at the airport. We got on the flight and watched Despicable Me (Megan's new favorite movie) and then were served 2nd dinner of lasagna for me and chicken and mushrooms for Megan. 4 tylenol pms and 7 hours later we were awake and getting served our 1st breakfast of the day which was an egg omelet with hash browns. I love air new zealand service and their food. It is totally the best.
We got into Auckland around 5 am and Megan napped while I was reading up on my kindle. I inadvertently noticed that the kindle gets 3g service in new zealand and I checked email and browsed the web some. Megan woke up an hour later and we ate our 2nd breakfast of a sausage roll and a quiche and got a croissant to go and we got on the flight.

Turns out this flight also included a breakfast of another quiche, this time with bacon, which we ate and then realized we had to finish all our food before landing so we ate the croissant and touched down in Melbourne. We lucked out in all of our customs/security lines in the Melbourne airport and powered through the short ones and picked up our rental car. I am super excited to drive on th wrong side of the road again. Wipers and turn signal are flipped as well as volume and tuning on the radio. Just about everything is wacky. Especially awesome is in Melbourne you take right turns from the left lane. I need to find a picture to show the insanity.


Today is our easy day so we got some info from the concierge and headed down to the waterfront to eat our only lunch meal and get some amazing ice cream. There is no tipping in australia which is convenient for the wallet but lends itself to lazy servers. It took us a while to get refills which only came once we got the check.

After lunch, we drove up to Queen Victoria's market, an enormous 4 square block open air market. It was huge and they were selling just about anything you could want from fruits/veggies to toys to clothes to rugs to broken us to australia power converters. I sadly bought the latter.


We had reservations for dinner at this amazing tram car restaurant. There is a tram that runs on the regular lines but is a replica of a 1900s train complete with white linens, chandeliers and everything. It takes us on a 3 hour dinner tour of Melbourne which was awesome. We met a kangaroo (our first course) and had steak and chicken before getting to the most important course, a chocolate mousse. We had great neighbours at the next table and spent the last hour talking before getting dropped off and cabbing back to the hotel.

I have pictures from my phone i will upload for this later