Day eighteen

Sarah Day 18

Today we went on a tram around the city. It's the first time I've ever been on a tram. It was a bit freaky because every time it stopped we all fell backwards. We had to stand up because it was really busy. First we stopped at Melbourne Central and went in to look at the Shot Tower. Then we walked to the State Library. Along the way we saw the sunken roof of a library. Outside the library was really pretty and we saw some statues and lots of people snoozing or reading in beanbags. In the library it was really interesting. We saw Ned Kelly's armour and a display of books that were carved into the shapes of countries. There were also some old books in glass cases and one of the books had a picture of a thistle in it!
After the library we went and had Chinese for lunch. We went to Chinatown and saw some Chinese lions and lanterns. Then we walked past Parliament House. It had lights that had crowns on them. Then we saw some rocks that had skeletons of animals of them. Then we went to Fitzroy Gardens where we saw beautiful flowers in the conservatory and the goddess Diana and her hounds. We walked to Captain Cook's Cottage. It's really quite small. We wandered off to the Fairies Tree. Around the tree, we found some bookcrossing books tied on with string. We chose two to read on our trip back home. The Fairies Tree is quite cool and awesome. It has fairies and animals carved into it. They move when there's no one there to see them. Next to the Fairies Tree was where the fairies live. It's called the Model Tudor Village. It is really pretty and full of small houses and a church and miniature trees. We looked around and saw something that looked like a dragon so we went over to see what it was. It turned out to be a dragon slide and there was also a headless giraffe swing. 

We walked to ACMI at federation square and I got to play a game there. We walked to Flinders Street station to take some photos of the clocks. We walked to the tram stop and had to wait in the freezing cold wind for what felt like an hour but was actually only twenty minutes. Finally when the tram came we had to wait for people to get off the tram but we didn't have to wait long because there were only two people getting off! That was pretty unlucky because there was lots and lots and lots of people in the tram. We squeezed into the tram and made our way back to the car. We drove on and dad decided to go back into the city and we found Japanese restaurant so we had dinner there, then we went home, had showers and went to bed.