Tasmania Trip

Hobart Tasmania was beautiful! I had such a great weekend. The flight there was a breeze which was nice, the shortest flight I'd ever been on as well. Felt much better than the last airplane ride I was on that was 18 hours ahhh. When we got to Hobart it was already around 9 pm so not many restaurants were open but we found a Chinese place right by our hostel. While the food wasn't that great...the ice cream i had for dessert was to die for which is funny because it was a Chinese place. We went to bed early so we could wake up the next day early and start exploring. Friday began with climbing Mt. Wellington! It was a little over 5 mile hike that was virtually straight up so there were a few times I was ready to just sit down!! But the views we had on the way were amazing and I would choose to climb up the mountain rather than drive every time because you really would miss out on the beauty of the hike. Once we finally reached the top the temperature dropped at least 10 degrees and the wind was blowing like crazy so I went from sweating to shivering real fast (which is probs why I've been suffering from a sinus infection and ear ache the past 3 days) but again it was still so worth it! The climb down was actually more painful than the climb up because it killed our knees. Funny side note: if any of you know me I lack some coordination walking so yes I fell a solid 5 times on this adventure hahah and was tripping up the whole way there. 
After the mountain hiking we went to the royal botanical gardens which were beautiful although many of the flowers were just starting to bloom because Spring began only last week. If any of y'all want to get married in Tasmania this is for sure the place. After the gardens I did my first wine tasting at a place called the cellar door! I got to taste 12 Tasmanian wines and the whites were by far my favorite and I wanted to spit out some of the dry reds but Mom i know you'd be ashamed so I kept on trucking through the tasting. Our wine tasting guide then invited us to dinner lol random but he said he was going with an American pilot and his wife so we thought it would be a good experience. Plus, the place he invited us to was Italian and is supposedly the best in the city and let me tell you it was. We had a great conversation with some great food. 
Sunday we again woke up early and went to the famous Saturday Salamanca Markets near the waterfront. It was such a cool market and I bought some gifts for some of you lucky people :) Saw my first tassie devil (lol please look at picture below) and had some great food. We then took a bus to 7 mile beach...which as the name implies is 7 miles of beautiful beaches! It was too cold to swim or lay out but nothing beats the sound of waves and the view we saw so I can't complain. We then ate at a cute pizza place where I had my favorite pizza (jalapeño and pepperoni) and then caught our flight home.
Overall it was a great trip, all the people in Hobart were incredibly nice (especially the guy that drew us a map to get up the mountain out of pure kindness) and I would totally go back if I could.