The Big Walk

Today (Friday) was a better day weatherwise after a maximum of 15c yesterday although still a foggy start. We walked to the Carlton gardens to visit the Exhibition Buildings and the Museum. The new Museum is very modern and a contrast to the Exhibition Building which it is adjacent to.

Seeing Phar Lap brought back childhood memories as we often visited him in the old building. He is still in fine form. I think he has had a bit of grooming recently. We spent a couple of  hours walking around the various exhibits.

After leaving the Museum we walked along Gertrude Street to Brunswick Street, Fitzroy.  We strolled along Brunswick St window shopping until it was time for a coffee break and after we crossed Johnston Street, it was a late lunch at a sidewalk cafe. Feeling refreshed, we next walked down Johnston Street to Smith St, Collingwood to see the old "hood" which is not much changed, still "spot the Aussie" or perhaps more so. The big walk was taking it's toll, so we bought a few things at Woolies before we hopped on a tram to return to the city.  Talk about embarrassing moments, a bottle of milk in a plastic bag was leaking which we didn't notice while we were trying to work out the ticket machine. A young woman pointed it out to us. I was trying to mop up the puddle and get the tickets while Steve let the milk drip onto the tram step. The plastic bag still had milk in it and there was nothing we could do. All the passengers acted as if we were invisible. That was one tram we were glad to get off and have a good hysterical laugh.