Valentines' Day in Melbourne

So yesterday was the day of hearts & flowers, since I really don't care for this day, I decided I was going to avoid all of that stuff, which wasn't easy since every second person I saw walking down the street had bouquets of flowers in their arms. Anyway, I went to check out an Aboriginal art gallery, they are in the process of closing their shop & were selling things off, they had really beautiful pieces of art, some of which I would have loved to take home with me but unfortunately, the prices of the pieces stopped me from doing that. It really amazes me how interesting & detailed the art is, with many different colours, patterns & textures used.

After I left there, I decided I was going to head back down to the South Gate area & look into the river cruise. Got on the cruise which was an hour long, up & down the Yarra River. While mostly seeing a lot of the industrial sides of it, the captain of the boat also pointed out all of the development along the Docklands areas too. In London England, they have the "Eye" farris wheel, well apparently Melbourne is going to have their own version of it & I happened to see that it's well on it's way to being built, to be completed perhaps later this year or early next.

The captain also mentioned a sky deck that was well worth seeing too, which is located in the tallest condo building in Melbourne. That would be my next journey, which was well worth seeing. It's 88 floors off the ground, & the view turned out to be excellent. As I'd gotten off the boat, the sky was opening up & the sun coming out finally, so the view was as far as my eyes could see in any direction. I now have well over 700 pictures, the newest ones being the awesome views of Melbourne in every direction!

After I was finished with that, it was finally time to stop & have a bite to eat; you'd think that with all this walking I'm doing, I'd be hungry all the time, but my appetite is still a bit wonky, not that that's a bad thing. I decided on a small pizza, one which had chicken & corn on it, it turned out to be quite tasty, I also thought I'd finally get myself a drink, I had my usual, a strawberry daquirie, which turned out to taste a bit different than I'm used to, more alcohol than sweet, & no sugar rimmed glass, but I did manage to drink most of it, so it was fine. On the way back to the hotel, I decided that I wanted to indulge in something sweet & chocolate, so I stopped at one of the food kiosks & picked up a very decadent slice of chocolate cake - yumm!

Today (Friday) I'm off to meet another new friend, Ron, later this afternoon, & I think some time after that I'm going to try & get in to see another gallery down at Fed Square, the Centre for the Moving Image, which holds all things in the manner of audio/video/film/art. I may also take another run through the National Gallery because at the Aboriginal shop, one of the nice ladies working there asked if I'd seen the collections, which I must have missed, so I'll be checking that out too.