After a horrible nights sleep (thanks to the asshat above us who spent the whole night traipsing back and forth in their apartment), today started with breakfast at laneway stop #2 RMB Cafe and some delicious treats from Doughnut Time. 
Then, an uber ride to what I had been quietly dreading….Zero Latency. Their website is: https://zerolatencyvr.com if you want to know more but basically they kit you out with a VR headset and then you roam around in an open factory space killing zombies….but it doesn’t look like an open factory because of the VR….it looks like you’re in a video game! I was a bit uncertain about it all.
My first question was: what about the walls? Not an issue – the game has in built tricks to ensure you don’t face plant into a real life wall, and warning did you still manage to wander off on your own. This was closely followed by my second question: what if i suck? Well, then the zombie horde eats you. So yeah. Zombie death.
We paid $88 each for 45mins game play and it was actually good fun. B the geek was SO EXCITED. Like, next level excited – to the point where he was quoting me zombie speeches before the event – so it was really worth it just for that aspect. It was also a fun thing to do on a day with shitty weather! Definitely a gamer thing rather than a Mel thing though. B came first which he was pretty stoked with, I felt a little bad for the 12 year old who he beat by 1 point ON HIS BIRTHDAY though. Meanie. In case you were wondering, I came last – but I did a lot better than I thought I would!
After zombie killing we shopped at Queen Victoria Markets for my new shoes and the most delicious bratwurst sausage I’ve ever had.
Then – nap time. I needed it after all that zombie horde killing. After napping, we went back to the actual reason we were in Melbourne: The Comedy Festival! At 6pm we ubered up to the Trade Hall to watch “Impromptunes: the completely improvised stage musical” which was AMAZING! So good in fact we have booked to again tomorrow night. I’m hoping for an even better musical than ‘Jurassic Ark’.
Afterwards, we went to the Athenaeum Hall (incidentally, it is literally next door to the hotel) for the 8:30pm show of “Straight Outta Compo”, a sketch show by the guys who did Fat Pizza. We booked because it was listed as a 1 hour show but it turned out to be longer (grrrr ticketek) although it was very funny. The crowd demographic was very interesting, it’s not often I can identify as an ethnic minority!
Tomorrow we are off to the Dandenongs and Yarra Valley for the day. Wiiiiiine. And trains. Mostly wine.
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