An all night arts festival filled with light and colour and entertainment and I didn't need to go out of the country to experience it, I really do live in the 'lucky country'.
A forty minute train journey into the city was all it took for Jenna, a friend Linda and I to experience an explosion of colour, light, sound and entertainment .
(and crowds, I think 500,000 other people were in the city to enjoy those sights and sounds too.)
I sometimes forget in my love for other cities (like New York, Kyoto, London, Rome) that I live in one of the greatest cities in the world, Melbourne, and I don't always appreciate it, so to go in to the White Light Night, and explore it and appreciate it like someone who has never been to Melbourne before was a joy.
We started at Melbourne Central and were well entertained by a flashmob that got everyone up dancing to the bands playing outside the RMIT building on La Trobe St to the slide show on the walls of the State Library we were entranced.
We endured the crush of people on Swanston St watching street performers and took time to duck into a great little Vietnamese restaurant to tuck in to some great food to fuel us for the rest of the adventure as we wandered down to Flinders St Station
Federation Square and the Yarra River.
The city was was awash with light, colour and sound and Jenna, Linda and I were all glad to be a part of it. The only problem is that it gives me something else to add to my 80 things to do list....to see how many other White Light Festivals I can see in other parts of the world and see how they compare :) (St Petersburg, Paris, Leeds, Toronto, Calgary to name just a few) I think after the magic I've experienced tonight they have a lot to live up to :)
