Eeeee, here we are again! As the school term started later this year, so have school holidays so we have only managed to come for the last 5 days of the MICF this time around but have booked 11 shows within that time!
Our hotel for this trip is a little more fancy since I slept about 12 hours over a week last time we stayed in Adara on Collins and was super grumpy. This time we are in the Novotel on Collins and it is super nice! Our room has a lovely view of St Collins Laneway and the pretty light features.
After settling in at the hotel, we both went shopping – I spent *mumble mumble* at Dangerfield and Fossil while B considered purchasing new electronics. We then had an early dinner at China Red (a favourite from last years MICF visit) which not only has amazing dumplings but also uses touch screens so there’s very little social interaction. It’s my kind of place. After leaving there, we walked to our first venue and encountered a street artist touching up some work in Hosier Lane.
Our first show tonight was 6:30-7:30pm and it was Urzila Carlson at the Forum Melbourne. We have watched her quite a few times on HYBPA and enjoy her take on life. I hadn’t realised I had booked front row though! Lucky she’s nice to audiences. 
Our second show was 8:15-9:15pm at the Swiss Club where we saw Rhys Nicholson. We actually saw him perform last year at The Great Debate and really enjoyed his snarky, self-deprecating humour. We could have gone front row for this one but I went with second row instead.
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