Mar 10, 08 - Moomba Festival

Today is Labour Day in Victoria, and also the last day of Moomba Festival.

I plan to go to the festival with some of my friends. We plan to meet at 6 PM, but it turns out with no one except me. In the end, everyone gather up at almost 7 PM.

Then, some of us plan to have dinner first before going to festival, since it's not much choice there. We eat Indian food in Flinders Lane. I eat something veggie and it's quite nice, also it's cheap.

We reached the festival (in Yarra's bank) at almost 8 PM. But, the sky is not really completely dark. It's still quite nice. We could see the place quite clear.

There are a lot of fun amusement thing there. But, I don't try that since it's expensive. There is one to throw you up to the sky using some spring mechanism and that costs you $30.

Then we walk to the other bank of Yarra River, The Birrarung Marr, where there's a lot of challanging game, such as: throwing into cans, throw balls, put a basketball in, etc. There are also some easy game that you just have to catch some 'fish' and 'croc' then add up all the number.

We stop at few places there and have a look.

At 9.30 PM, we watch the fireshow, that's the last one for this year. It's nice and run for 10 minutes. The place is really packed and luckily, we already have a place about 5 minutes before the show.

After the show, I take time to play two games but win none. The first one is to throw ball into, likely, a wall and the ball must drop into a basket below it. The second one is basketball one. It's quite hard, then.

Yeah, we go home at 10 PM something, since they already have to close everything. So, there's no more games that you could play.

It's such a good festival for me. This could be the last festival that I attend in Melbourne, since it's already autumn.

Going forward to see this in the forthcoming year.