{"id":97687,"date":"2025-02-19T15:56:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T15:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/adventure\/farewell-melbourne-gday-sydney-unique-travel-adventures\/"},"modified":"2025-02-19T15:56:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T15:56:59","slug":"farewell-melbourne-gday-sydney-unique-travel-adventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=97687","title":{"rendered":"Farewell Melbourne, G’Day Sydney! – Unique Travel Adventures"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The parents took a mini vacation to Cairns to scuba dive The Great Barrier Reef this week which left me to tend to the kids 24\/7 in Melbourne Monday-Thursday.<\/p>\n

Monday-Wednesday were easy peasy!<\/p>\n

Both kids went to bed between 8:30-9:30pm and didn\u2019t wake up until 8:30 or 9am. There weren\u2019t any meltdowns and they were happy as can be.<\/p>\n

Who says the life of a parent is hard? Keep the kids to a schedule and boom, the days are easy. I think I mentally over prepared for this.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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And then I ate those words bitterly starting at 1am Wednesday night\/Thursday morning. Hunter woke up and was inconsolable from 1-2:30am. He cried when I held him. He cried when I put him down. He cried when I sang to him. He cried when I rocked him. He cried when I gave him a bottle. He cried when I changed his diaper. He cried when I turned the lights on. He cried when I turned the lights off.<\/p>\n

After trying everything I could think of, I placed him back in his crib to cry it out. Do you know what listening to a screaming child for essentially an hour and a half straight in the middle of the night does to your mental sanity?!<\/p>\n

This is like listening to The Song That Never Ends. It\u2019s repetitive and annoying and makes me feel like a crazy person. I think my ears are now bleeding from listening to Hunter. <\/em>I was more than ready to head back to my quiet apartment when the parents came home at 5:30pm.\u00a0I kind of feel guilty for being so short and grouchy with the kids today. Maybe they didn\u2019t notice\u2026?<\/em><\/p>\n

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On Friday I was able to meet up with a girl I met in Bali who lives in Melbourne. We saw Beauty and the Beast (amazing!!!), polished off a few bottles of wine (so cheap, yet so delicious), and discussed Australian culture.<\/p>\n

Fun facts:<\/strong> Teachers in Australia start out making around $55,000 a year, and will make just shy of $100,000 towards the end of their career.<\/p>\n

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On Saturday, we said goodbye to Melbourne and flew to Sydney. That night I grabbed a few drinks at a bar just up the street from where we\u2019re staying. After chatting with a fellow customer, I said, \u201cMy name is Laura by the way. What\u2019s your name?\u201d He replied, \u201cI\u2019m Aaron.\u201d Without any hesitation, I asked, \u201cAnd how old are you, Aaron?\u201d in the small child voice.<\/p>\n

Oh no! Did I really just ask him that?! This is an adult you\u2019re talking to, Laura, not a small child!!! Take it back\u2026 take it back!!!<\/em><\/p>\n

After apologizing and explaining that I\u2019ve been around children for too long this week, we preceded back into our conversation of sports and Sydney while I used my adult voice again.<\/p>\n

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I spent today exploring downtown Sydney and checked off the major touristy items:<\/p>\n