Hottest.....Day......Ever
Trip Start
Dec 31, 2008
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18
40
Trip End
Mar 27, 2009
Where I stayed
Melbourne,
Victoria,
Australia
Saturday, February 7, 2009
It was so hot that after we walked outside, we just decided to find the closest place for lunch. We walked down to the river and ate somewhere, and when we walked back outside, Dale decided it was just too hot and walked back to the hotel. That's sort of what I felt like doing, but since we were in Melbourne, I figured I should go do something. We walked for a bit doing some shopping, but finally, we just decided to go see a movie since at least it would be cool in there. On the way to the theater, the wind inexplicably really picked up, and in one of the strangest experiences of my life, I had to turn and walk backwards, like you might do in the cold, because the wind was so strong and so hot that it felt like my face and eyeballs were melting, like something out of the last scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark. I'd estimate the wind at about 75 miles per hour of satan's fury. Lenny thought the apocalypse was coming.
Anyways, we didn't do a whole lot Saturday afternoon, but after we walked out of the movie (I was forced to watch something called Underworld 3, which is one of the stranger things I've seen), the temperature had inexplicably dropped about 30 degrees and was now very comfortable. We headed back to shower and then decided to head to St. Kilda, which is a beach town about four miles from downtown and is sort of Melbourne's answer to Bondi Beach. St. Kilda was a cool area and we were partly going there to meet up with my new Sydney friend Kim's friend Jenny, who she had put me in touch with. We met Jenny and a friend of hers at some bar and stayed there a while. Jenny, as it turns out, is also originally from Ohio and went to Wake Forest. Kristen was excited to find out that Jenny was considering going to LBS, and I think Kristen was also excited to have another girl to talk to on this trip,especially a fellow ACC alum.
Jenny also had her roommate Jane with her, and so Kristen, Jenny, Jane, Ryan and myself headed to another bar to check out the St. Kilda scene. Jenny and Jane said they knew of a good place, so we went to check it out. It was a pretty surreal scene. It was all people about our age, and people were all dance, but they were only playing music from the 60's. I actually really liked it- they were playing a lot of Motown and other good dance music, so we hit the floor for a while. We left after a drink or two and checked out one more place before Jenny and Jane decided they were calling it quits for the night. We had lost Lenny and Dale earlier, so we went back into the city to meet them, and found Lenny hammered and by himself in a club downtown near our hotel. We stayed there for one more drink and then headed home, but not until we watched a crazed man with a dyed-blonde mohawk scare every man, woman and child in the place with his insane dancing. And thus ended one of the stranger days of my life.
