Adventures with John 2_2025

 Ok it is now Thursday and last nights mad dash from arriving at hotel and organising ourselves to get to our restaurant booking revealed something else. Jerry had brought only shorts and John had left behind all of his shirts bar the one he was wearing. So although shopping with two guys is not my idea of fun, hitting the shops today was definitely on our agenda. But first we used our morning walk to visit St Patrick's Cathedral, started in the 1858 and only completed in 1939. It opens at 6.30 in advance of a 7am service. There were no takes among us for the morning service but we all found the cathedral moving. We had bets o n the number and demographic for the morning service and were all wrong. We estimate around 50 parishioners and a range of ages.. Jerry had a $2 coin that bought to Tapirs and H John and I each got to light one.

After grabbing a quick breakfast is was off to UniQlo for shorts and pants, which was very successful and Jx2 are both now firm fans. We breezed through the State Library before heading off to the National Gallery of Victoria. Yoyoi Kusama, most well known for her large polka dot pumpkin sculptures and her infinity rooms, is the major exhibition right now. Of course no tickets available but there is one sculpture on the bottom floor. On the top floor for free is a fab clothing exhibition which captures Jx2 imaginations probably following their morning experience at UniQlo.

Evening meal was at Seamstress, an Asian fusion restaurant in a former textile factory with low-lighting, fabric wall art and a cocktail bar. Kate was in Melbourne too and she joined us for dinner. Kate and I got to take over the ordering, it is getting to be a thing...


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