The Docklands and Other Adventures

Last week I ventured to the other side of the city. It's a magical land brimming with sidewalks and tram tracks and small yachts and grassy knolls and orange construction cones. But. It's precious. I took the City Circle Tram for the first time which is the same as any other tram but more old-timey...and free. This was some random sculpture made of curved metal bars and a couple sheets of pink metal mesh. Wow, that's fun to say.

This is just a rainbow building. No big deal. Except that it's awesome. I have no idea what purpose it serves but I want to live here. I imagine it's probably an apartment complex, which is perfect. It would be a bit difficult to make a home for myself in a row of cubicles or an empty mechanical warehouse.

This is a sculpture in a children's play area. Each of the cup-like attachments spin with the wind. It's really cool.

For our IES Farewell party we went to dinner at a delicious Greek restaurant (which served stuffed tomatoes and zucchini and bell peppers, or "capsicums" to the people who didn't eat the platters of tiny octopi. And by people, I mean me). After dinner we went to this underground bowling alley. Overall a wonderful night.

There was a festival going on in Federation Square for about a month called A Light in Winter. It was a celebration of the symbolism of light in a vast array of different religions. There was a raised platform (not in this picture) with probably about 50 7-foot tall pillars covered with LED lights. When you walked around them, sensors in the floor created specific patterns in the lights. So cool. And these lanterns were hanging from cables with red lasers shooting across them.

Craziness comes on quickly when we're bored. I believe here Laura was whipping her side ponytail in time to "Beautiful Day" by U2. This was moments before we decided to give Kate a unibrow with one of my curls. Best decision ever.