Nick and Cara in Melbourne part 2

The last post left off with us headed to dinner with our Aussie Nick and Cara (Tim and Carol). On the way we stopped at Pugg Mahones. That's right we have a Pugg Mahones in Melbourne. Turns out they don't have a pork chop sandwich like the world famous Pugg Mahon's of Billings, MT. A bit of a downer but they made up for it with some darn good beer. Nick agreees with my assessment of Aussie beer, that it is not very good. So, it was nice to have some good Irish beer. After a few, we hit the Abla's Lebanese restaurant. This is Tim and Carol's forte. They know good food. And good food it was. They were about 20 courses. They just keep bringing you strange and wonderful food, until you roll out satisfied, and 10 pounds heavier. As if that was enough gluttony, we walked on down to Brenetti's. This is a decadent heaven. You get a cavity just looking at the many sweets. Not quite my thing, but Cara described it as her version of heaven.
Speaking of Cara, she has been hobbling around Melbourne like a polio victim. Her knee has really been bothering her. This has forced our visitors into a true Melbourne experience. Endlessly waiting on trams.
We rolled the tram over to the Melbourne Museum. Cara and Nick thoroughly enjoyed it. Just to give a background on how good the Melbourne Museum is. Nikki and I spent about 2 hours in the Louvre in Paris and we spent about 4-5 hours in the Melbourne Museum. We also went to the State Library of Victoria. Where we saw Ned Kelly's armor and several really old books. Poetic for Nikki and Cara there was a book by Sigmund Freud and "On the Origin of Species" by Charles Darwin sitting right next to each other.
After the Library we went to St. Kilda to chuck some bangers on the Barby over at my mate Stuey's house. This is where Nick and Cara spent the better part of the evening assuring Stuey that I am not the total representation of an American. After dinner, we walked down to the beach to check out the penguins. They were cute little buggers. Today after a bit of time at the market, we are ditching Cara and hitting the links again!