The Save Our Sanity Campaign

William and I decided that today we would go into the city to check out the Moomba Festival that was supposed to be going on along the Yarra. We hiked across campus, caught a bus to the train station and then caught a train into the big and wonderful city of Melbourne. As soon as I saw the cityscape come into view I almost squealed. Yes, I almost squealed.

When we get to the Yarra [river] it looked the same way it has looked since I've been here. There was no festival, but there was the Grand Prix happening in St. Kilda. It was happening about a kilometer away but you could hear those race cars zooming around that track from the Yarra! At Federation Square where they have this giant screen with a webcam that streams onto a website was showing the Grand Prix. There were heaps of people just hanging out, sprawled on the cement just watching the race. Since there were no Moomba Festival festivities to be found anywhere we decided we'd go take a look at this place called UniLodge on Flinders. Unilodge provides ideal student apartment style living right downtown at not-so-student prices.

I've already established that Clayton is the epicentre of boring, so this was kickstarting our "Lets Move Back to the City to Save our Sanity" Campaign. The Unilodge didn't have any rooms open to view because the Grand Prix visitors filled them all up, plus they didn't have any apartments available anyways. So we head over to Unilodge on Swanston and it was the same deal with them...Grand Prix, no rooms to view. But they did have 2 1.5 bedroom apartments becoming available in the very near future. Great! Our next stop was Global Village, also ideal student apartment style living right downtown at not-so-student prices. They also had 1.5 bedroom apartments available.

Today was a good day. In a scant 2 weeks we're moving back to the city just in time to enjoy our Easter Break. Fancy that.