Part 2 – Dayglow

We got back to the motel from the zoo and I think I was exhausted from the heat, so we turned the aircon on and I passed out for about 2 hours.  I woke up before the time we had to leave and we changed into our clothes.  I’d just wore a crappy old white singlet and my denim shorts.  You’ll see in the photos if you haven’t already on facebook. 
We walked and followed a few other people all dressed in white.  Only one place they could be going! =D

We caught a tram there – fare evading because the stupid machines only take coins.  I mean, really??  Apparently they were getting rid of those machines and replacing them with something called "Myki" which I think is very similar to Brisbane’s Go-Card system.  It’ll be so much better when they do!  So, Shel and I had no choice but to fare-evade.  Thank fuck there wasn’t a transit officer waiting at our stop haha.  Of course I was conscious of it.  it wasn’t the only time we fare evaded on the trip – we didn’t realise we had to validate our train tickets after we purchased them at the outer suburb station we were at haha, so when we put them in at the city, they wouldn’t work.  Luckily when a guy went through the gate, it stayed open so we just walked through.  Typical clueless tourists fare evading – great!  It’s not like we hadn’t paid for the train ticket – we did – and it was the tram we weren’t able to pay for at all, oh well.  All good.

We went past Flemington racecourse (wow that is huge!) and our stop was the one after that I think at the Melbourne Showgrounds.  There was a massive tent set up where the event was being held.  I really liked the set-up.  It was a real festival sort of atmosphere.  And talk about HOT GUYS – oh my fucking LORD is all I have to say.  By the time the event picked up a little with the music pumping and the alcohol flowing and the paint blasting, the guys were shirtless and the chicks were topless.  The only clothing a lot of the performers had on was the paint itself!

Anyway, there was a hottie dancing right behind us doing really cool hand movements and dance moves – i figured he was a regular at these sorts of things, and then later on we noticed this stunning muscle god.  It reminded me of Parklife, where guys just seem to work out all year just to show off at the festivals haha.  I tried to get a photo of him but it was so hard!  The event was apparently sold out, although the venue was huge.  I guess they have to provide safety, and they had security and massive water tanks and even a tent set up with water dripping from it where people could stand under and either cool off or wash paint off them I guess.  I did for a while and it was so nice.

The first plaint blast was at 5pm and it was insane!  I wasn’t sure exactly what to expect.  I could only asssume that the paint would come from the paint-cannons set up all across the stage.  Then a heap of staff carried out huge pain water pistols just before the countdown ended and I knew this was gunna get messy.  You can see the results below.

When we first arrived

Shel found this on youtube haha – I can see me at 0:10 and 4:55
Actually – you can see me in the thumbnail behind the pitchfork too haha

Haha I didn’t realise he was pointing at me til after

me with my $12 Smirnoff red lol – i only had two alcoholic drinks the whole day – rest was water and soft drink.
I decided to upgrade to VIP, which got me this shirt and a CD of the event, oh and a token for a paint bottle 🙂

Yes, that chick has no top on

Haha, crazy-eye selfies

Fuck I love photo-bombers hahaha

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The really hot one was the shirtless one near the white-shirt guy

It’s a festival, there’s bound to be drugs lol
Hot-guy with glasses in background

Hot-guy hugging drugged mate 🙂

ooo, hot guy again

I think it was about 7pm or something when paint just came flying from somewhere (the roof I think) and I got drenched in it haha.  It was like RAIN.  I likened myself to resemble a candy lolly by this point.

Some random chick jumped in a photo with me haha

Shel said to me, "You should see your hair" – haha I love it!

My now-multi-coloured Connies!

Walking home with the sunset behind me

 

It was then I was messaging Tobimac to see what he was up to!  Our flight home was tomorrow already (only in Melb for pretty much 36 hours or so) so I had to catch him whilst I could.  As you can see I was covered in paint so opted to go back to the motel first and wash off.  It all came off pretty easily.  I’d only gotten pain in my eyes twice at the event, and it didn’t sting, so that’s good!  I had 20 mins to shower and get ready, and I spotted him as I went down the stairs.  He looked good!  Last time we caught up was in Sydney, and now he’s all grown up and graduated back to being a Melbournian. 

He said he was 5 minutes up the road, but I didn’t realise that meant driving, so I’m glad I didn’t try to walk it!  🙂  We went back to his place and I was greeted by Chompers (the household cute doggie who kept jumping up on me for pats and scratches, so cute) and one of his housemates.  I think I downed like 4 cups of tea (that boy makes good tea!) and some cake slice, whilst we chatted and caught up on what he’s been up to that I haven’t read.  i must say I didn’t know what an "anemic (sp?)" was until he showed me a rather intriguing video of some guy using one.  I totally can’t even remember what the name of it was haha, I’d truly never heard of it. 

Anyway it was great to see him and he dropped me back off at the hotel.  I was exhausted!!  What a day!

The flight home the next day was nice too.  I had my extra leg-room in seat 1A of the plane.  SO worth it!  The only bad thing was climbing the stairs to get onto the plane.  The wind was SO SO strong!  I literally felt like I was going to get blown off the stairs and I was willing the lady in front of me to move her arse so that the plane could act as a barrier to the wind.  When I sat down, the plane was rocking so much with the wind.  It was like turbulence and we weren’t even off the ground! lol!  I wasn’t looking forward to the flight, but, it was okay 🙂

When I got home I saw on the news that Melbourne had winds up to 100 kilometers per hour gust through the city – haha, that explains it!