The Thomas 2000
Downunder Tour

Melbourne

Stopping for coffee in Borders Book Store. Britt looks wired;
Sim looks in desperate need of higher xanthine blood levels.

Title: Gabbi and Swan (not related to Leda and Swan). In the
Royal Botanical Gardens in Melbourne. Notice the palm tree.
It doesn't snow here.

Gabbi training with the Victorian Institute of Sport volleyball team.

More training.

The Thomas Crew at the Prahran Market. The paw paws
(yellow fruit with star-shaped seed sack in foreground)--big hit!

Beefy hunk in the meat department at Prahran Market

St. Patrick's Cathedral in Melbourne.

St. Kilda (Mark's district) Town Hall, just south of the
central business district of Melbourne.

Where we are headed on the 9th of July.
The 12 Apostles on the Great Ocean Road.

Thomas family in one of the many restaurant alleys in Melbourne.

Gabzilla and Britt on one of the Melbourne trams.

Britt's backside at the Queen Victoria Market.

A girl and her uncle in the Vic Market.

Gabbi and Harriet at the Domaine Chandon vineyard in the Yarra Valley
east of Melbourne, on our way to Healesville.

Dr. Harriet Speed, our chauffeuse on our trip to the
wine country and the Healesville Sanctuary (a "zoo" with
only Australian fauna, but not real zoo-like). She has such a fashion sense.

Roo pictures at the Healesville Sanctuary.

Rainbow lorikeets.

Britt and Gabbi with Phoebe the Wombat.

After the sanctuary, we went to the Yarra Valley Dairy and feasted.
This is the cheese and anitpasto platter.

Gabbi with dessert.

The Melbourne Cricket Ground (The "G"): Carlton play Hawthorn.

The footy crew, Gavin, Sim, Britt, Gabbi, and the Behemoth Shayne.

Post Hawthorn defeat party on the grounds.

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Calvin takes you home, but not all the way to Colorado.