Day 181- Sunday, June 24- Halfway to Home

Day 181- Sunday, June 24- Halfway to Home

Today happens to be, "I reckon", the halfway mark of our 1 year minus 2 days adventure down under. Although we don't feel as though it is downhill from here, we do feel a sense of urgency for the people we have not yet visited and places we have not yet seen.
Today, Colleen and I went to the city and explored various art galleries around the National Gallery of Victoria. The Ian Potter Centre has a permanent as well as special exhibit of aboriginal art. We spent a few hours exploring the artworks and we were able to take pictures (without a flash of course) and get a record of our visit.

Click here for our Aboriginal Art Photo Page

In a moment of silliness, we went next door to the Australian Centre for the Moving Image and attended the last day of their animation festival. Can you guess what was on? If you grew up in the 60's watching Commander Tom on WKBW from Buffalo, New York, then you would remember the awful animation but clever scripts in "Roger Ramjet!" Watching 15 episodes in a row, each time with the theme song and closing credits playing over and over, each episode the villain "Noodles Romanoff" getting whacked, we determined that the animation was awful and the scripts were clever, but we could not have understood them at all way back then!


To top off our less than serious day, we walked across the street to St. Paul's Cathedral and attended Choral Evensong. How peaceful it was.