Our first visitors

We just had our first visitors. It was quite exciting. Kristi’s brother Jason came and spent a week with us. He was in Sydney for a couple of weeks as part of his university’s international business course. Afterwards, he came down to Melbourne to see us.

For the first few days, a couple of Jason’s friends, Nick and Matt, also came with him. So for part of the week we had five people in our (tiny) apartment. It was cozy, but I think it worked okay. We showed them around the city, took them to Crown Casino, rode various trams and trains, went to a footy game at the MCG, visited Planetshakers church (they had been to a Planetshakers concert in the States) and drove to Philip Island to see the little penguins. 

Kristi made most of the meals (which I think were delicious), but we did have one dinner on the infamous Lygon Street where all the restaurant owners stand outside and try to convince you to eat at their places – usually by bribing with you free appetizers and drinks. It is an interesting experience. We also visited one of the great Melbourne chocolatiers– San Churro’s. Yum!

It is nice when people come visit us because we get to hog all of their time (because they don’t know anybody else here!) So we got some good quality time with Jason, which was awesome.

It was sad to say goodbye of course. And now our apartment feels kind of empty without so many people in it. But we had an awesome time and are looking forward to more visitors in the future!