On Saturday we made sure to wake up early again to get our free brekky. During breakfast we decided that we were going to go straight to the AFL (Australian Football League) game from the hostel. The title of this post comes from a comment made while getting ready for the game. Long story short, we started calling Chris "the little guy" and later "Roald Dahl". Anyway, we all got ready and jumped on the free tram to the Melbourne Cricket Ground. We had to walk a little to the stadium but it was pretty awesome. The game was actually really intense. There were fans of both teams with huge pompoms on their respective sides of the field. People were all dressed up in team apparel and such. Not much different from a normal football game. The Hawthorn Hawks and the Essedon Bombers (much more badass than the Sydney Swans...). We wanted Hawthorn to win, or so we were told. The Hawks had a significant lead into the 4th quarter an then they just blew it. The funny thing was the Hawks had the ball at the end but I wasn't sure when the end was! I don't understand sports that have timers that count up instead of down. So it was like hot potato, I didn't really know exactly when the game was going to end, only that it was ending soon and that they had to score soon! But they didn't and it was depressing, I guess. But overall it was definitely the most fun sporting event I've been to here. After the game we hopped on the same tram and went back to the hostel to figure out our plans for the rest of the day.
By the time we got home we were all pretty hungry and thought about dinner plans. We decided to go check out the Greek Precinct and Chinatown. When we got there, Chinatown was definitely more festive and decorated but we decided that we have enough Asian food in Sydney and we should branch out. We stopped at this small Greek place and had souvlaki and other typical Greek food. It was pretty good, but probably nothing like what Shannon got to eat this summer.
Well after dinner we decided to go to... the Velvet Underground! Starting to see a pattern? We had no idea what to do at night so the VU was a good place to start, as always. When we got there, no one was in the bar. I mean, besides us there were maybe 3-5 other people. It was odd. We decided to play some kind of drinking game and after much deliberation we decided on speed quarters. But it was more like speed 10 cent coins with smaller than normal shot glasses. So, it took a little getting used to. We stocked up on jugs (pitchers) before happy hour ended and then continued to play for a while. I think it was about 10pm when the bartender said it was last call. Let me remind you this was on Saturday night. But we were basically unfazed since we had already thought ahead. We stayed there and about 15 minutes after the staff left a guy came down looking to have a drink. He was pretty pissed to see that it was closed but we started talking to him for a little. His name was Brian and he was from Ireland but he had lived in Australia for a while (mixed Irish and Australian accent, awesome.) He told us about this bar he works at so we decided to go there that night. So after finishing off our jugs we headed up to our room to get ready to go out.
Brian told us to go to the Melbourne Central Shopping Centre and then to the Lion Hotel (in Australia bars are very often called hotels). It was really cool. When we got there, a live cover band was just starting. Some jackass tried climbing onto the lighting fixtures by the band and he quickly got tackled by the bouncers. (Later we learned that he was an American and it was his birthday, making this shenanigan even worse.) We saw the bartender pouring this weird shot that we later found out was called the blue waterfall or something. He lit a bunch of alcohol on fire in a cup and then poured the flaming alcohol into a shot glass and then covered it with the glass and then the person taking the shot inhaled the smoke from the alcohol burning. It looked totally unsafe and unpleasant and way too confusing. The guys left not too long after being in the bar and Gina and I left to go to a different bar after a while. The other bar kind of sucked so we called it a night and went home.
Andddd that was day 3.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment