Glorious 3 days long weekend, celebrating Labour Day and a month of festivals ahead of us.This weekend started brilliantly, with a mild earth quake on Friday before 9pm, followed by the start of a month long festival with the Moomba Waterfest, a French Film Festival, the Food and Wine Festival and many more activities. Hitting the city centre on Saturday, we went to the top of the Rialto Observation Deck and enjoyed a fantastic 360 view of the whole of Melbourne from the tower's 55th floor.
Fairs, circus, kids activities, beach volley and water ski competitions on each side of the river, we sat on the grass, with thousands of others, to see the fireworks between live bands and hotdogs. Ooh la belle bleue! Ooh la belle rouge! Smiling at the colourful sky - purely lovely!
Back on that same lay of grass on Sunday lunch to see the Birdman Rally - those crazy people with home made flying machine, throwing themselves from a 5 meters high platform into the river. Man and bird (sub)merging together, they were flying, flying and flopping! I want to do it next year and shall soon start the design for my KiteWoman ultimate flying machine.
Unfortunately our usual weekend swim was slightly disturbed by an invasion of jellyfishes, the Blue Bottle and Moon types; not deadly to human but can still stunt painfully. So we just spent another hour or two perfecting our tan.Rob's training for his next marathon, the Melbourne Fun Run in April. In the meantime, we'll be going to the MCG on his birthday to watch a spectacular aussie rules between our two local teams. Can't wait!
That's all for now folks... More pics on Picassa.
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