After a generally shitty night, we were all blessed with the dulcet tones of a bullhorn at 530 this morning, announcing all kinds of unimportant crap about a road race. Whose starting line was directly outside our window. Arrrrrrgh.

That’s what you get for staying across from the main train station, I guess.

Anyhoo, since I was up now and love runners, I went out to watch the race and get a walk in. Also, that much activity gets me second breakfast. Wheeee!

At ten, I found the art gallery buzzing. There’s a MOMA traveling exhibit that the locals are mobbing. This leaves the rest of the permanent display for mostly me. It’s a nice place for a city of 5 million, not too big.

It was supposed to rain today, but after some lunch it was still so sunny that I walked to the Victoria market.

It’s a super popular day market, with produce, food stalls, and the most dissatisfying collection of Made In China garbage. What a bunch of junk.

Thank God for donuts. They swooped in to save my afternoon…and then ruin my night with the resulting heartburn. Because when you buy a bag of 5 donuts, you eat a bag of 5 donuts😑😑😑😑.

I’ll never learn. Good donuts tho.

After a savage, sudden rain shower…….another museum!!

Surprised?

This one, ACMI, was darn neat. It shows the history of moving images from the very beginning. Lots of neat displays about movies, TV, video games, you name it. There were virtual reality units showing movies, this was new for me to be able to watch. VR makes me queasy, and with those freaking donuts on board it was rough going. I persevered.

Now it’s only 4 but I am tired so I called it a day.

The hostel has a great TV room with beanbags and Netflix. It goes like this; somebody picks a movie and everybody has to kinda agree. Only, nobody WANTS to pick. So if you just pick something, nobody really complains if it’s bad. Sooooo….its been so much fun putting on bad movies and making everyone watch with me. I’ll pick something awful, wait 5 minutes and leave. Everyone left just sits and watches it because its easier than changing the movie. Also, I kinda hide the remote.

I’ve made everyone watch The Fifth Element 4 times now lolololololololololol.

However, today nobody let me pick. I very pointedly wasn’t given the remote. Somebody else picked Inception. What a trippy and great movie.

The bar downstairs had a open mic night. Kinda awful, but I couldn’t complain. A roommate performed 3 songs she’d written herself. Neat!

Finally, finally its bedtime. I’m so excited to sleep.

Yay!!

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