Made it to Melbourne

Today we got up around half 7, packed our bags and shipped out as we were flying to Melbourne. We got the airport shuttle from our hostel to Cairns airport. It was raining as we left so we weren't missing much. We dropped our bags off and whizzed through security as there was no queue. Because the flight was internal there was no rules about liquids which felt weird. We took off at 10:55 and the flight was about 3 hours, but there was a time difference of an hour so we landed around 3:15. It was sunny when we landed which was fab. We got the skybus from the airport to southern cross station which was about a 5 minute walk from our hostel so that was nice and easy.

The check in process at the hostel was so slow it was painful. We are staying in a chain of hostels called Nomads. We had heard good things as they were popular backpacker accommodation that were in many places so we were hopeful. Firstly we waited ages for some boys to check in and then the receptionist told us we needed to complete our details on the tablets behind us, after we'd already waited about 15 minutes. Not sure why he couldn't have told us this earlier. Then once we did that we had to go back to reception.  It took so long for the dude to check us in. I have no idea what he was doing as we'd already entered all our details onto the tablets. Eventually we got our room and went to dump our stuff. Unfortunately we are both on top bunks but beggars can't be choosers. Neither of us are that impressed with the hostel so far but we will see how it goes. The WiFi is only free in the common areas between 7am and 7pm so all my posts will chop off the evening and if anything interesting happens, you'll hear about it the next day.

After we had dumped our stuff we headed out to the supermarket to buy some sauce and veggies to go with the pasta we have. We also bought a multi pack of Pepsi max to save us money.

We put the shopping away in the fridge and went to the bar next to the hostel to claim our free welcome drink. I had a coconut/pineapple/melon cocktail and Lauren had a orange vodka one.

This evening we plan to just cook dinner and chill. Tomorrow we hope to explore the city.