I HEART Melbourne - Part I

Hello to all - I have so much to write about, where do I begin?! Well, this past Wednesday I hopped on a plane (not to be confused with hopping out of planes, btw which I've only temporarily gotten out of my system :) from east coast Queensland, Arlyie Beach to the great state of Victoria, en route to Melbourne. That's right, heading down south for the winter!

Melbourne is such a cool city - it is know mostly for it's diversified food, shopping, sports arenas, fantastic art galleries and theatres. Unlike Sydney, the streets are wider, the buildings are not on top of each other, and the people seem to be in less of a rush. This is a city I could see myself living in...lots of parks and gardens to break up the concrete jungle of it all...

Before I even got off of the plane, everyone was raving about the Salvador Dali exhibit, so on Thursday afternoon, (I spent the morning booking the last leg of my travels:) I spent a good three and a half hours at the National Gallery of Victoria engrossed. It was fantastic! It is said to be the first comprehensive and largest collection of Dali work to ever been held in Australia. Not only paintings and drawings, but film-photography-fashion. He made a short animated film with Walt Disney for goodness sake! Did you know that? I didn't. And I found it on youtube, where would we be without youtube?!? LOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3KeqJFsb4M ENJOY!

This is Federation Square, known for its funky architecture glass buildings.

China Town - I had some yummy shrimp fried dumplings for dinner :)

So much art is just randomly placed around the city, comical really. This is "Spaghetti" :)

You gotta love whoever placed "Cow in Tree" as community art...I mean how did the cow get stuck in the tree anyhow??? Doesn't matter - good stuff!