Sunnybank Plaza is a......... MALL!

And today I went there!

Its maybe a 25 minute walk to there from my house, uphill, of course, like everything else around here. But it was some good exercise, and some pretty houses and flowers along the way, so with my Ipod, I was set.

The mall wasn't too different than anything at home - a little smaller, but still with a food court at one end, a couple of electronics and games stores, a bunch of clothes stores, and more mobile phone stores than you could possibly want. The one thing that was awesome though, and I will have to take pictures of, is that in the middle are set up maybe 5 different saltwater fish tanks, about 75 gallons each, except for the last one, which was probably closer to 500 gallons *drool*.

Of course I stopped and stared for a nice long while. At each one. =D I was a little disappointed though that the contents of the tanks were exactly the same as what I would find at home, but they were still beautiful, and all but one of the smaller ones was well maintained (and that one had horrible hair algae!) very similar to this:



They had some of these yellow tangs:


As well as one or two hippo tangs:


And of course, some false percs:


So overall, it was very well done. I was very tempted to peak under the hood and see what kind of lighting they were running (one of the tanks had a hugeeee clam in it), and look under the stand to see what kind of filtration system they were using, but I resisted.

After the mall, I went to the ANZ bank, and started opening a bank account. But because I did not have a student ID and forgot to bring my letter of offer from the school, I couldn't finish opening it, so I will have to go back shortly. But they did give me a piggy bank:



I stopped on my way out to buy some groceries at Coles, and bought lots of the Cup of Noodles and a frozen pizza, feeling very much like a college kid. =D

I make the journey back to my place, and checked my email, where there was a letter from my host Rotarian. We corresponded back and forth for a little while, and I learned that he did not forget me, but rather had the wrong house, so I was a little relieved!