We are still in Melbourne, Australia.
It is Monday the 1st of October.
We were almost too late for breakfast at 7 which a string rehearsal followed with 4 MSO players. I think they talked far too much and we only played our easy pieces like Sibelius and Janacek. We could learn a lot though !
Afterwards we had to race to our concert at the BMW Edge.
VIP with Ciara
But something very exciting was announced that evening: a Food Quest ! We had to create our own Lunches for our room for tomorrow at the zoo and it had to be cheap and creative creative. We were only given 15minutes in the supermarket.
Later that day we went to the old Melbourne jail for the "hangman tour" after 9pm. It was dark and only a single candle spend a bit of ghostly light on the face of our guide. Pretty much everyone in our group was scared. I found it rather very interesting and sad, but not frightening. After the tour we were free to roam the very small cells, hear about Ned Kelly's execution at this very spot and even tried replicas of his armour on !
We had to leave far too early...
me in Ned Kelly's armour
his death mask
punishment cells
Before breakfast the next day we created a Koala face out of Pita bread and various vegetables for the Lunch competition before we took the bus (!) at 10.30 to Melbourne zoo, where we listened to a chamber version of Camille Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals.
Afterwards I walked around with Sarah and Andrew and in the given 4 hours we almost saw everything by racing from one place to another singing "Kookabura" (but we didn't see any !!!) and "Waltzing Mathilda".
using sunscreen with Sarah
The Libanese Restaurant, which we visited that evening, wasn't the best and we had to wait almost 2 hours for a vegetarian meal ! But we also went to a huge dessert place afterwards and it was great !Ciara did my hair to a Bauerkranz ! She is just amazing and so skilled in everything !!!
Madz, Claire and Ciara at the restaurant
We had a late breakfast but early Lunch in the central city before bussing to Philip's Island (1.5hours away). This was our music-free day. A bit sad actually... We paused at a beach and although we weren't alowed to go swimming we had lots of fun. The waves reached my shorts with COLD sea water, but it was beautifully warm and I just enjoyed this wonderful sand beach. On either side of the road we now saw pinguin holes or wild wallabies ! We were on our way to the so called Penguin Parade which we reached an hour later, but only seats at the very back were free. Soonish many people left anyway and I got to sit at the very front where I could see little blue penguins only 2m away! CUTE! (Sorry, no pictures allowed...) On the wooden walkway back penguins are all around and even under us! And of course suitable to this day we watched Happy Feet on the bus trip back, but I was just too tired...
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