February 14 – Lunch with Aakriti and a tour of the Parliament Building

We have a lunch date today with Tara’s daughter, Aakriti.  We are meeting at the South Melbourne Market so we decided to take the bus to get there early so we could wander around the market.  It was certainly a local market with lots of butchers and vegetable shops as well as some household goods.  

We had a lovely visit with her.

Then we caught the tram to the Parliament building.  The tram passed the Princess Theater (just across from the Parliament building)...

so we stopped in and got tickets for Sunday to see the stage production of Harry Potter and the Curse Child.  (Takes place 19 years after the first series of books).

We got to the Parliament building just in time for a tour.  Was very interesting. We visited the main hall with its statue of Queen Victoria,

and both legislative chambers.  It is a beautiful building, very ornate.

We walked back to the hotel.  Short day of sightseeing but it was enough.