Under the Sea

After a two year break it was off to the aquarium again on Easter Monday. Seeing as in the past years I had only ever asked one person to go with, it was the same plan for this trip. However the person I asked me to invite others and make it a proper event ... which I was not so keen as I am never good at it. Weeks before the event I'd invited one person here and later there. By the Sunday it was two yes (me and original ask), one maybe, one last minute pike, and two unconfirmed. See terrible at organizing events ... So to not totally fail with just the original two I asked someone else so at least it would be three people. Before the night ends the maybe and both unconfirmed jump on board so now it's six people going. 


Morning of the day the original ask ends up sick so is out so interesting enough the one that wanted to meet others couldn't go. The meeting time ended up having everyone in different part of the city so an undecided lunch location was suppose to be decided ... by me. This is the sort of thing I stress about. Choosing things that make everyone happy. I'd rather have group consensus but everyone was everywhere else. With my limited experience of eating in the city I was able to remember Merrywell which was right near the aquarium. Success. Unsuccessful was it wasn't opened for another hour. So we went round the corner to Galactic Circus to kill some time. Shot some hoops, played some air hockey and was about to go but there was a dollar to burn. One of the others tried out a random game and without knowing it won 100 tickets. However the tickets got stuck so had to get it fixed. So lunch at Merryland was great. The red-eye is great with so many chilli :D. Yum. Finally it was time for the aquarium.

Seeing as I had been to the aquarium so many times I knew where to go to see the cool stuff however they had removed a lot of the things that I had enjoyed. We still had fun taking photos, playing in the crawling spaces, and stamping our maps. Two of us got separated when we spent time in the kids corner. Met back up at the croc. The others thought the croc was fake because it didn't move but eventually we saw it had closed it mouth Something different this time was the 4D cinema they had. 15 minute video with 3d glasses, fans, sprays, and vibrating chairs was predictable but still fun. Backtracked to see a few more things. Back to the kids corner and lost another person. Kids corner was fun because you get to color in pictures which are scanned with QR codes. These are then projected on the wall and move around. Pushing the things to do I scanned my iPhone onto a fish ... iFish. Finally we met up at the gift store to finish up.

After we hung out at Emporium and Melbourne Central playing some games I brought with me. Good day overall. Just through talking it sounds like I need to organize a Melbourne Zoo trip ... but I'm looking forward to it.