We arrived in Melbourne and headed off to
meet Karsyn and Ben. We didn’t have a vehicle and a nice man at the
airport told us to just hop on this bus, get off at this stop and then
we could walk to our condo. Although this man was nice, he was severely
mistaken! We ended up hailing a cab from the bus stop (remember we also
have our luggage with us) and it was another 15 minute cab ride from
where we were! We got to the condo and headed upstairs where the lovely
kids were waiting for us with a fridge stocked with all the goodies that
two girls who just got off a plane and walked 6 blocks to a bus to have
to hail a cab after, could want. We stayed up playing games and
describing our adventures over the past week.
Now one thing that Carolyn desperately
wanted to do was swim with the sharks. We walked up to the Aquarium and
as a twist of fate, there was one spot available for the next morning! Carolyn was flying high with excitement! However, the next morning she
showed up, ready to go and achieve this dream she had had since she was a
wee girl. She sat and sat and waited and waited until finally an
employee showed up to deliver the news. The diver is sick. So,
incredibly disappointed Carolyn had to walk away without her swim. The
other side of this was that she was not meant to meet up with the group
for another 5 hours and no one had their phones on. She walked around
Melbourne, checking out the sites, stopped for lunch and met some lovely
people from all over the world! Meanwhile the rest of the gang sat
around having lunch discussing if Carolyn had been eaten by a shark or
not.
We also discovered the Escape Rooms! If you
haven’t heard of these before, Escape Rooms are basically a problem
solving team exercise. You go into the room and have to find your way
out (hence: escape) within a certain period of time. We did pretty well
during the first room where we had to escape from jail and had such a
good time we thought, “Hey! Lets do that again!” This time we chose
Transylvania Escape! The first part of this was one member of the team
needed to get in a coffin which was to be closed and locked shut with
chains. Carolyn volunteered for this delightful feat and went back to be
locked inside a coffin - which was surprisingly comfortable.
So the gang starts the quest and they had
to decipher a complex code that Albert Einstein himself would have had
trouble with to unlock the chain on the coffin. Kari, Karsyn and Ben
figured out all of the clues and got the correct code for the lock - but
alas - the lock did not open. After a few more tries, they called in an
employee who also tried the correct code. Still the lock would not
open. Kari reassured Carolyn numerous times in the coffin letting her
know, “Don’t worry, they will be here too with the lock cutter,” as
Carolyn practiced her eternal dirt nap. 20 minutes later the lock cutter
arrived and Carolyn was free!
This whole fiasco clearly shook all of us up as we could not figure out a single clue after that point.
We also took another opportunity to get a
bit more of a flying experience and headed out to a zip line course…
which was quite a distance away and up a VERY steep hill. Online the zip
lining course looked quite safe and not TOO high up so we thought we
could handle it all quite well…. until we climbed up to the top. Ben,
being the little monkey that he is, had no issue.
However, us girls to a
little bit to get us moving off of certain obstacles. We made it
through in tact, thank goodness, but the train ride home was just a time
to sleep as we needed to rest after that life threatening experience.
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