115 in the shade, hottest day in Melbourne History

We had decided early in the week that Saturday we would go out to a popular shopping area called Chapel St. There is this great tented open air market called Prahan market. There are stalls with tons of fresh fruit and veggies, pastry stands, deli type stands, flowers, and lots of other stuff. We walked around there for awhile, got cupcakes (csaba's favorite), i bought some peaches, olives, and we finally found csaba some white truffle oil. It was a really cool place and I'm excited to go back. We are planning to cook dinner for everyone sometime this week so we will hopefully go there to get supplies. After checking that out we walked down the street. It was very windy and felt like being in a furnace. According to the news it was the hottest day in Melbourne history and sparked a number of fires. It has been quite a big deal.
We decided after walking for awhile that we had to stop somewhere and get a drink. There was a nice bar on chapel that we went to that had big windows all along the front that they open when the weather is nice. We sat for awhile trying to recover from the ridiculous heat. We stayed on Chapel street a bit longer then made our way on the train to Federation square.
Back on federation we headed straight to EQ, our new favorite restaurant. We got the Mediterranean dips again and a great bottle of Savignon Blanc from a nearby area. Perfect on a hot day like that one. We didn't want to leave the A/C so we stayed quite awhile, opting to order their cheese plate after we had finished our dips. Also really yummy with a brie type cheese, some type of gorgonzola, and one we thought was similar to parmasean. There was also some apple, a strawberry, and fig paste. It was really good but they gave us big chunks of the cheese so we didn't finish it. We decided it was time to go home and headed back on the train. Later that night we head back downtown to check out some night life. Since it was Saturday it was quite busy. We went a couple places but they were really crowded and we weren't very dressed up so we found a little bar to sit at instead of one of the places the waitress at Seagrass had told us about. It looked like a little cafe and had cool stained glass everywhere.
Getting comfortable with the trains is definitely a good thing. It makes it much much easier to get to different areas particularly downtown. For $15 each we got a pass that gives you 5 days on the weekends. We will for sure be making good use of that.