and why are you not in Melbourne?

My god I'm awful at updating. Today I'm going to do a massive blog dump and write like three entries. READY SET GO.

So let's start at the very beginning of this journey. I was sitting on facebook one night and out of the blue this kid messages me and says "do you want to see Amanda Palmer with me?" and I knew instantly that we would be best friends. haha. But really, that's how I met Marcus. Then we met for real a few days later at the art school, where we have Printmaking together. I think the second time we met was on the way to the airport! haha. So we really got to know each other waiting for our flight from Hobart where we giggled about The Dresden Dolls and Amanda for probably two out of the three hours we were waiting there. haha. We were SO excited. We had booked our flights just a few days before and reserved rooms in a hostel and it was all so impulsive that I think we were both in shock that we were actually flying to Melbourne for a concert. The flight only took like an hour and we arrived in Melbourne around 10 pm or so. Then we had to get a bus into downtown Melbourne, dodge all the drunk people on the streets, and get to our hostel for the night. The hostel was... interesting. haha. it smelled funny and we were in a room with six bunks, but luckily no one else came in the two nights we were there so we had the room to ourselves. There was a pretty nice view of Melbourne from our room and the beds were comfortable, so despite the dingy walls and funny smells, it wasn't too bad of a place to stay. :)

We got up pretty early the next day and went down to breakfast, which was quite awful. Then we wandered around Melbourne for the rest of the day and let me tell you, Melbourne is one of the coolest cities ever. I will give you a photo tour of our day!

Right outside our hostel was some cool grafitti...

downtown Melbourne had cool art all over the place...

we found a gorgeous old church...

and Marcus was really excited and whipped out his fancy camera. :)

 

 

we didn't eat lunch at Burger King... I mean Hungry Jack's...

 

 

 

but we did eat lunch in a cool little alleyway that we found!

look how cute the signs and lights are! :D

At the end of the alleyway were some really cool buskers, so I gave them money :)

and I actually bought a cd from this guy, his name was Tim Scanlan and he was playing the guitar, a harmonica, a cymbal, and a drum all at the same time. he was amazing.

Flinders Street Station was really pretty

and I don't know what this building was, but it was really cool and artsy so I took a picture anyway!

 

 

 

Then we found this street. It's one of the most amazing places ever. The entire thing was completely covered in grafitti. Every wall was completely coated top to bottom and it was incredible.

there was SO much cool art, we spent probably about an hour in that one street taking pictures and I have dozens more that I could upload. hopefully they'll all be up on facebook eventually. :)

we spent the rest of the afternoon in this pretty park

the trees were absolutely amazing

and I found mushrooms! :D

by then Marcus and I were getting antsy, as evidenced by this lovely picture, so we headed to the venue to wait.

And then it was time for the concert. We got in line and talked to some cool Australians and got super anxious and sang some songs and held our breath and finally the doors opened. My next entry will be about the show. :)

Oh and the title of this entry I got from the song "Here in Melbourne" by The Jane Austen Argument.

Oh and why are you not in Melbourne?

It's colder here, you know,

And the stars are obscured by the sky.

 And why are you not in Melbourne?

There's art in the streets.

And your feet should come darken my door.

Oh and why

are you

not in Melbourne?