Little Brianna Dahling.

We have reunited! Breezy and I met at the Melbourne airport on Wednesday morning...so good to see that little chicken! The first day we wandered around the city (St. Kilda area), caught up, had coffee, had dinner, and saw a bit of live music...then laid our heads in a nice hostel in the area.

Dinner was great. We stumbled upon a place called Lentil as Anything. We walked into the very modest restaurant to check out the menu. There were no prices, just a few vegetarian curry dishes and a story. Here is the gist of it: The pay as you feel philosophy is simple--pay what you think the food and the experience is worth...placing human dignity above profit. All donations and payments are made into an anonymous box...which in their eyes preserves dignity and promotes trust and feelings of social inclusion. The food was delicious, very simple but with wonderful spices and flavor. I wonder how they do? I am sure that we paid more than we would've been charged, but do you think people take advantage of it? Or is their philosophy working for them...the part about promoting trust and feelings of social inclusion...? I loved it...and at the end of the day there's no complaining about food or service...the focus is simply on the food and the social aspect of dining out.

My goodies.

The second day of our honeymoon we decided to rent bikes, roam the city, hit up the Victoria market and eat candy...so after much convincing, that is exactly what we did.

The trouble was...the bike lanes are completely inconsistent throughout the city. Whatevaaa, we are American. We don't even know what side of the road we're supposed to be riding on.

Look who I found wide-eyed in the candy store....!

Unfortunately, the weather was a rubbish both days...but thankfully it has turned around since then and we're seeing the SUN again :)

Off to Geelong we go!

Catch ya.

L.