Art Day

I had a good night’s rest and woke up around 10am. Saturday was art gallery hopping day. Neil and I headed out at 11am and shopped for a digital camera. He had an accident with his phone (which he used as a camera) so he needed a new camera. He ended up with a Fuji Z3, which I think I read about a while back. They make good cameras, so I gave it my approval.

Art

A lot of the galleries have shortened hours or were closed on Saturdays. I think we were able to see about 70% of the galleries we visited. We walked all over CBD following the Art Almanac looking for these places. There were many weird arts like scrap metal and broken ceramic plates. After we hit all the Melbourne galleries, we took a 15-minute tram ride to St. Kilda to the Uber gallery. The exhibit in this one was well worth the trip. The collection contained huge surreal photographs of people and animals in bright colors by an artist named Paolo Consorti.

I was hungry by this time so we stopped by a Japanese noodle shop. While I waited for my food, I looked through the sushi selection in the front glass display. I was immediately repulsed by the cockroach that was walking up and down the sushi aisle waving his antenna around like he owned the place. I was glad I didn’t order sushi. I wanted to tell the guy working behind the counter, but I didn’t want the drama of him trying to catch the bug to unfold in front of me. So I waited for my soup outside.

Should have stopped at this one

After dinner, we walked 5 minutes to take a look at St. Kilda’s beach. It was getting cool, so there weren’t many people by the beach. I took some pictures and Neil tested out his new camera. It was about 5pm by this time and I was exhausted. I went home and took a 2-hour nap. Neil and I meet Kevin at a Richmond bar around 9pm. 2 martini’s later and I called it an early night. Got home around midnight after a nauseating train ride then puked up the second martini. I should have known to stop at the first one. I felt a lot better after that and passed out for another night for good sleep.