We ended up taking a look around the whole of the NGV and managed to lose each other in the galleries. We decided, afterwards, that it would be an awesome place to play hide & seek.
veev and Rothko
Afterwards we had lunch at the vegan place on Degraves and then went to the Hopetoun Tea Rooms to have some tea and scones. As we were waiting in line, veev pointed out that the lady behind us with three kids (all holding iphones/ipads) was Lleyton Hewitt's wife. We overhead one of his kids say, "Daddy's a taco!" and veev and I couldn't stop laughing. It was so so funny.
Tea and scones was really nice. But the tea there is so so expensive and really it's only hot water and leaves. Earl grey with lavender shouldn't be 6$ !
afternoon noms
After tea, we went for a walk in the rain to Wunderkammer. It has a lot of rough and interesting stones. We were trying to find one that I could make into a necklace for Veev. We both though that bismuth was super cool. I really loved sun pyrite! We spoke to the shop lady for a long time, she was super keen on getting a massive stone ring made. She was really helpful and let us both hold and touch all the stones, hahaha. We didn't end up buying any of them despite loving a lot of them, we didn't feel like we found the right one.
We spent the rest of the afternoon looking for other stores that stock stones and minerals... But we were pretty unsuccessful. We did, however, buy a couple of little note books from the 5$ book store. Veev struck a typography book goldmine just as we were about to leave the store, she was SO excited it was hilarious.
Later, veev was craving some hazelnut hot chocolate so we wandered down Collins street until we found some really random passageway that I had never been in before. It was like a secret world and it was so cool! In actual fact, it probably isn't all that secret and hidden away, I just have never been there before. We found a little coffee shop and they had hazelnut hot chocolate so we both got some! It was sooo yum and a very nice way to end our outing.
yum yum yum!
I found the building, that we were sitting in, sooo cool so I told veev that we had to go upstairs to see what the interior was like. We caught the escalator up one level and accidentally entered a dental clinic.... It was really awkward but the front desk lady told us, "a lot of people accidentally come up here quite often." So we took the stairs back down, and then got into the lift and went up to the top floor. Again, somebody asked us what we wanted and I just told them I was interested to see the interior and they were like, "oooh ok, that's cooool." IT WAS COOL. I wanted to see if there was a roof, but it was almost peak hour so I wanted to leave the city before a lot of people emerged. We took the elevator back down and I pressed the buttons to a lot of different floors - I wanted to see if all the floors were the same. THEY WEREN'T! They were all built differently. I have no idea why I found it so so fascinating. But yes, it was super cool having the lift doors open and seeing a whole different setting each time.
I said bye to veev and decided, seeing that the sun was still up and just about to set, I would walk home. It was a beautiful walk. The air was perfect and cold and the lighting was really nice. I walked along the grass near the botanical garden.
I always laugh when I see this in my park.
I always laugh when I see this in my park.
but maybe someone has really lost a pigeon... if so, they will never find it in that park. It is infested with pigeons. O_O
When I got home, I watched Midnight in Paris - I really enjoyed it. I think I need to watch it again.
"the emptiness of existence"
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