2/22/2015

White night counts as Sunday since I started at about 4am. The past 2 years I have done white night by myself and met up with various friends at different points in the evening. This year I did the whole thing with Damien. We did most of it on bikes which is by far the best way to get around. In all we ended up seeing 35 of the 75 exhibits between 4am when we arrived at 7am when it finished. We were a bit disappointed that a few things closed up before we got there but were happy that we avoided all the long lines. We were moving a bit slowly at first so we really needed to race at the end to see the last few on our list. 

The highlights were:

Dancing light up skeletons.

The real life Audii advertisement

A cirque de soleil turtle operated by 3 people. 

Glowing lilies on the Yarra

Dragons that spurted fire.

Jazz at the forum.

St. Paul's organ

Glowing wings in the aboriginal exhibit.

Once we were kicked out of the last exhibit at 7am we went for a coffee on Lygon street. We were struggling to find anything that was open and stumbled into Brunetti's-a coffee and pastry heaven. Whilst I got the drinks and food Damien got the pastries. He went a bit crazy and we had to take a couple home. 

During the day Sunday Damien and I went to the Moonee ponds festival. It doesn't sound very interesting but they had a food swap, crafts, ice cream, Hungarian snacks, and Turkish breads. It was way too much food. We took half of that home too. Other than that just chores and shopping.