Wandered up Centre Place/Way so we could go to Haigh's. I've never even heard of it (go figure!!) (oh, this was after walking past the Lindt shop on the way to breakfast and being very disappointed they didn't have lime Lindt. Seems we are going to have to stock up on them next time we go to Europe!)
Continued wandering up Elizabeth St. Stu stopped for a coffee while N&A and I checked out Bernard's Magic Shop.
Carried on walking past La Trobe St. The old City Circle trams are very cute.
Finally we made it to Queen Victoria markets, where we spent a couple of hours wandering up and down looking at stuff. I bought a photomosaic jigsaw and some beer stubby holders and was very tempted by some wooden landmarks like Tower Bridge etc. But decided to be good and not get any heh.
I liked the big slabs of butter they had in this store.
Eventually wandered back towards the city, stopping in at the Shot Tower cone in Melbourne Central.
Carried on wandering down.. (skipping a browse through Myer because Stu was tired)
And went into Minotaur for a good while.
At this point Stu went back to the hotel, and Nat and Andrew and I went down to Flinders St to catch the City Circle tram out to docklands.
None of the docklands stuff existed last time I was in Melbourne so it was amazing to see how much stuff is out there now. Now it's labelled the "entertainment and lifestyle precinct".
Of course we were there to play at Glowgolf..
Which had some very pretty murals in some of the rooms
Andrew won and I got par so was all a bit of fun.
Then we hopped on another tram and went back to the hotel.
Picked up the sweetie then headed out again to find dinner. If we'd had more time we would have gone to Lygon St, but in the end we just went to Tono Italian Restaurant on Bourke/Russell St. Watched suicidal skateboarders while sharing some wine and enjoying some nice chicken.
Didn't have time to go back to the hotel, so went straight to the Regent Theatre to see Cats!
(this photo was taken the night before when the theatre was still in session)
I sneaked this photo in right at the end of the show. I *loved* the hundreds festoon lights they had all around the theatre.
The show itself was ok.. not one of the better musicals I've ever seen. It was well done and all, it just didn't have a *point*. And I only knew two songs from the whole production. So it was a bit meh. Got to scritch a kitty .. Nat was so jealous :):)
Then we just went back to the hotel and crashed.
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