Oct 31 - Rain, Cold and Summer Heights High

Woke up for church this morning and it was cold and pouring rain. I considered the factors in attending mass, which included walking for 50 minutes to and from the church in this inclement weather and decided that mass will have to wait for better weather. Back to bed and slept until 1:30! That's just over 12 hours of sleep. I was even surprised. I've been incredibly tired since arriving in Melbourne, and I'm not sure if it's from the weather or what, but there's been less activity than other cities and yet I'm sleepier. So, got up and had some eggs and toast and surfed the internet awhile, especially researching the "ice house" hockey place here. It's a ways away from the hostel and you need to have your own helmet and stick (they rent skates) so we'll probably hit that up once we return from New Zealand and it's worth buying that stuff. So with that off the agenda for today, we hopped on a train and transferred to another down to the area of Brighton. Then we walked 2.7 KMs to the Brighton Secondary College. Why? Because this run-down little school in a suburb of Melbourne was the location that the hit Australian TV show Summer Heights High was filmed. Summer Heights High was an 8 episode TV comedy series where one actor plays 3 characters in a high school. It's hilarious and we got some photos of a couple notable places from the show. Well, there goes a couple of hours for 3 photos. We walked back to the train station area, had some Subway then rode back to our 'hood. It was uncomfortably cold outside, so we hung out in the hostel and watched Knocked Up and Juno (there was a coincidental pregnancy theme in the movies tonight) then took advantage of much needed sleep after such a long day (sarcasm). Though, to be fair, we did walk about 6 KM today, so at least there was some exercise. We considered going to a bar for Halloween, but all the good bars are downtown, which is far, and the trains don't run all night and it's cold and rainy out. So whatevs, finding occasion to drink is never an issue so I'm sure we'll make up for it soon enough. Tomorrow we actually plan to go to the Ice House and rent skates to just skate around. We'll play hockey after New Zealand and show the Aussies how Canadians roll on the rink.