Last day in Melbourne

Decided not to have a drink today and see some sights so me, Niall and Da headed off to go on a walking tour only to find out that we needed to pre book. The start of the tour was meant to be the Immigration Museum so we decided to at least go to that and paid ten dollars to be depressed in a visually impressive way.

To cheer us up a bit we decided to go to an exhibition on Space in Film. We bought our tickets in the Moving Image Gallery and went to its permanent exhibition which was most impressive with a history of film and plenty of memorabilia from various movies such as Mad Max. I went into a booth that videoed me in a Matrix style (video to follow). The most impressive exhibit though was a spinning wheel with various characters in different stages of animation. The magic happened when a strobe light came on and the characters came alive (must see video to come). The actually space exhibition wasn't as impressive in comparison. Another novel scene was people out on deck chairs in the main square enjoying the sun while watching Miracle on 34th St. I tell you it's like a parallel universe.

To end the evening we kept with the film theme and decided to go to third largest cinema screen in the world to watch Mission Impossible Four. Although the film was standard enough the screen was impressive. Bizarrely a giant bat landed on the screen and looked like an annoying fly on a TV screen. Once again a mad country for animals.