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In case you can't read the sign written in red, it was on the bus. The Australians have such a wonderful sense of humor and you see it everywhere. It is something that is missing in the United States!
The bus fare is paid on an honor system. THey don't ask everyone - they just expect you to put your money in. Many people get on and then go through their purse or pockets for the money and go back up and pay it.
THe sign says, "ATTENTION FARE EVADERS - Please thank the paying passenger next to you. They have covered the cost of your journey. Maybe you should offer to mow their lawn."
Here's the journaling for this page: The Queen Victoria Market & The Graves
At the Victorian Market Bill bought bright neon socks for Joe and some for himself to make them more visible when they ride their bikes at night. We bought some zoo stickers with kangaroos for my scrapbook and then we found the cutest t-shirt with a furry koala bear on the front of it for Roan. It is so much fun for us to have a new baby to shop for! We haven't even met her yet and we are in love with her!
At the market we saw a brick wall but no significance was noted - it was just a wall. We later learned that this wall separated the consecrated graves from the unconsecrated graves – the consecrated being the Christians and outstanding citizens and respectable people. The unconsecrated were the prisoners, drunks, aborigines, mentally ill, and others that didn't fit the classification of “middle or upper” class.
In the parking lot alone over 10,000 people were buried! It has been documented that instructions were given to move them all to another burial place and only 900 (give or take a few) were actually moved. The rest still lie under the market and parking lot. That's over 9,000 people still buried under the parking lot!
We met a local gentleman later in the day and when we told him the places we had visited in Melbourne he told us about the graves and explained that the aborigines stay away from the Victorian Market because of its history as a burial ground. Aborigines are usually very superstitious and do not venture onto burial grounds.
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