july 19.. up and out. ready for adelaide and sun..20th

like i said up at 5.. got bread and coffee.. and brie.. sushi throughout day.. went to bus station.. 2 tkts for night bus to adelaide.. 50 bucks each.. thanks god... no room ahead but we had all day.. in at 8;30...before the bus ride to adelaide we had time to check out melbourne.. good day.. locked bags at bus station.. took train to st. kilda area.. recommended to us by a young girl crossing the street.. really... looked like provincetown.. streets hippie ish..cool, cafes, bakeries.. looked like an old seaside town .. carnival, permanent..fixture...rides looked like something from 50's.. now its a richer place.. boats.. melbourne has fine suburbs.. went by schools with kids in uniforms playing sports.. green greass, well kept,, fla. keyish.. small homes.. walked .. went to casino lost 5 bucks.. no luck here either.... back to federation square where church is.. big tiv ouytside, watching games.. back to gallery museum.. they were dancing in tea section.. a girl giving charleston lessons for all... we joined in.. fun...then off to the moving image gallery ,, movies etc.. they were showing the 1933 goldiggers on big big screen.. it was wonderful...joan blondell starred in it.. and we rested fb's big dawgs and my littler ones... grabbed some noodles at bus station.. get on bus.. driver playing music.. they stopped twice for coffee, etc.....hard tosleep. call the truckstops roadhouses.. not much inbetween.. dark but we could see landscape.. pulled into smaller city.. adelaide... found hotel.. .. emailed pistachio guy.. he will pick us up at a given spot...... sometime.. oh.. tues.. we are told