Happy Easter Friday! I really miss my fur-babies today, if we were at home I totally would have dressed them up with bunny ears and given them dog friendly chocolate. I know they are having a great time with Dan the awesome house sitter though – I doubt they even notice we are gone.
Today started….gingerly. We both slept in but surprisingly felt okay – I think the bacon deluxes inhaled at midnight and the 3 glasses of water before bed helped a lot! I had deliberately planned late comedy stuff today to allow a full recovery period from any Dracula’s cocktail inspired hangovers so it was a nice surprise to wake up feeling reasonably unseedy.
After lazing around until midday and googling “stuff that is open in Melbourne on Good Friday” we went in search of breakfast/lunch food. Laneway food proved fruitful again (thankfully some places were open on Easter Friday) and provided some juicy burgers and cool art.
We were thinking about going to the zoo but it was a bit drizzly and we were both feeling meh. So we spent the afternoon eating rock candy and napping. Our first comedy show of the evening was just down the road from the hotel at the Butterfly Club. Turns out, it’s down an awesome laneway….and has a cute little rooftop space! Probably the most hipster venue we have been to on this trip.
The 5:30pm show was called 2 Guys, 1 Magic Show and No Idea and was one of the smaller “this is not what I do for a living” type gigs which pop up during the festival. It was excellent though and the actual magic parts were pretty cool. I was part of a card trick and that turned out to be B’s favourite trick of the show so – go me!
Afterwards, we wandered around for awhile as our next show wasn’t until 8:45pm. We had some dumplings, ate chocolate fondue, people watched….and then went to see Wil Anderson’s show “Critically Wil” at the Comedy Theatre along with 1000 other people. You can definitely see the difference between him ($78 a ticket with 1000 selling a night) and the English guy we saw the first night ($20 a ticket with a sell out crowd of 70) in the comfort level they have with a crowd and how they manage hecklers….although both are still very funny. I’m a big Wil Anderson fan and enjoyed the show and it’s contemporary focus a lot.
Tomorrow is one of our busiest days of the whole trip: lunch at Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, the Great Debate at 5pm and then YUMMY at the Spiegeltent for an adults only late night show. Then we head home Sunday afternoon 😕 although B says he definitely wants to come back next year! Woohoo.
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