Hot, sore and a bit hungover this morning. The hangover didn’t last too long but the heat and wakeboarding muscle pains got worse as the day progressed.
Simon stayed over and gave me a lift down the road to Nat’s folks house as I was meeting them for a wee tour into the city (Chinatown New Year celebrations were on). I got a wee ride in Nat’s dad’s MG before we headed off. 🙂 We drove into town and checked out Melbourne Central shopping centre with it’s Shot Tower in the middle, I didn’t realise it was a munitions building or the process in making them. We then went into the packed (and now fecking hot) Chinatown where there were dragon’s, drums, cabbage (dragon’s eat this obviously) and super blood loud firecrackers. Each dragon visits a shop in the town, dances about, eats the cabbage and then sets off the firecrackers. It’s a cool but fairly chaotic display and in this heat I would not want to be any of the performers. I got fed fried crab, lamb kebabs and twirly tatties on a stick, nom.
Having had enough of the heat and potential fire hazard crackers we left Chinatown and jumped on an old tram to the Docklands. These trams are free as they are original and run the City Circle so taking in most of the sites for the tourists. Was bloody roasting inside it though with it’s lack of AC. Back in the day these docks would be used to land fish and goods that were then sent via the railway all over Victoria, now they house funcy boats, apartments, eateries and the Essendon Bombers home stadium. I need to educate myself on AFC as I’ll be needing to pick a team soon (Nat and some friends have each given me a run down of their teams).
We ate at a restaurant next to the water, I ordered a super nom (but filling as I didn’t really have room for this!) Moroccan lamb salad with a tasty craft beer. Nat’s folks are bloody ace I have to say as they showed me lots of stuff and paid for everything whilst I was with them. After food we headed home, this bloody sun drains the life out of you. The rest of the day was spent hiding from the sun and watching crap on TV, good bit of adventuring was done though. 🙂