Melbourne and the Great Ocean Road

Been a while since I posted here. Trying to think if anything major happened between these two trips. I went camping at rainbow beach and at night we saw tiny organisms that glow because of your body heat. I guess they were mating and only do that once every five years or so. Also, we went to Brisbane a couple of times. I saw the museum of modern art. They had some cool stuff. The most memorable was the room filled with just balloons. It was supposed to be considered art and we weren't suppose to jump up and down and throw balloons in the air or have fun... but how can you control yourself like that in a room filled with balloons.

Anyway, last weekend we went to Melbourne. It is the "European-like" city in Australia. It has less people than Sydney, but it is also much more spread out so it is harder to get around. Also, it was cold and rainy like a European city. I didn't bring a very heavy coat cause I assumed the weather would be nice everywhere in Australia.
My first experience with the weather was when I went to an AFL game at MCG (melbourne cricket ground). I was the only one wearing a t-shirt. Most of them also had the scarf of the team that they supported. A couple Australians told me to get a jumper at the store they have in the stadium. They were over $100 so I decided to tough it out.
AFL is not as similar to rugby as I thought. You pass the ball forward by kicking it and you score by punting the ball through the uprights. Also, the field is circular instead of rectangular. All I know for sure is that the Brisbane Lions won the match and that is who we were rooting for.
After the game we headed down to Chapel street to get some food. We ended up eating at a place similar to Johnny Rockets in the states. They shipped in A&W root beer and it was delicious.
The next day was the great ocean road. It is similar to the Pacific Hwy in California I guess. That is what this snooty American couple was saying at least. I thought it was really beautiful. It is just rock formation but they took so long to form and have survived for so long that you got to give them respect. The most famous spot was the 12 apostles. They used to have some weird name like "a pig and the piglets" but they changed it to 12 apostles. There are not even twelve of them there are 8 and they are these gigantic rocks that are in the ocean maybe 150 yards away from the other cliffs. Our tour guide was saying that they may not be around much longer cause a couple of the 12 apostles have already fallen down. We also got to see wild Koalas and feed some tropical birds.

There were so many cows by the great ocean road as well. The scenery not by the ocean basically looked like Nebraska. I guess cattle is a big industry in southern Australia. They were cows a quarter of a mile away from one of the best surfing beaches in the world. I guess they have the Ripcurl Pro there and it is the second largest surfing competition next to one in Hawaii

That night we went to Eureka tower. It is the highest tower in the southern hemisphere. The view was pretty amazing. It may have been better in the day light though. Some of up also did the edge package. The edge is a glass cube that they put you in and then put three meters out of building. It is really freaking looking straight down through the glass. I got similar feelings to the ones I had when skydiving. They people also played all these scraping sounds and cracking nosies so it felt like the thing could collapse at any second. The British guy with us were cracking jokes too. One of them started stomping on the floor and said, "made in Taiwan this". All in all it was good. I made sure to get lots of pictures of me by the Eureka sign.