We were excited to land in Melbourne after a long couple of weeks driving up the coast. We had only planned on spending a couple days in the city before heading out for the Great Ocean Road.

We spent a couple days wandering the city on foot. We had a wonderful time exploring the narrow alleyways that contained random graffiti art and lots of delicious little sidewalk restaurants. If you don't know where to look, you could walk right by these food streets. Luckily for us we stumbled upon them and were grateful we did.

We also strolled around Federation Square and even jammed out with some buskers putting on a little show.

When Thanksgiving rolled around, we were feeling a little homesick. We found a TGIFridays that was serving a full traditional American Thanksgiving dinner. It wasn't the best Thanksgiving dinner we'd had, but it did the trick and it was a nice way to celebrate all of the things we were thankful for. After dinner we got absolutely drenched by a rainstorm while walking back to our hotel. It was definitely a Thanksgiving we will never forget.

After our three days in Melbourne, we hiked our way to the rental car office and hoped for a better start than our last road trip. We headed towards the Great Ocean Road. It was really cloudy and rainy for the first couple hours of the drive, but luckily the rain stopped and the clouds made for some pretty pictures.

We decided to stop and stay the night after driving for a few hours.

The next morning we grabbed some breakfast at a local bakery and hit the road again. We stopped a few times to take some pictures on the way to the Twelve Apostles. When we got there, the weather was beautiful and we spent some time walking along the little trail along the coast to get some pictures and enjoy the sunshine.

After we left the Twelve Apostles, we headed back towards Melbourne on a different route. We stopped in the small town of Colac, where we met up with our friends Clay and Amy that we met while traveling in Ireland. We had a nice lunch catching up with them and even got a little tour of their town before heading back to Melbourne.

The Great Ocean Road drive was gorgeous. We wished we would have planned more time for the drive. However, we were super excited about our next destination, New Zealand!