Project 289 - Day 165 (Saturday 29 August 2009) : Carparks, Opera and a Voice That Would Not

Yes we look like complete tourists here! Well being from Briz Vegas Kerry technically is so I just joined in, threw on a very abd American accent and off we went!

Kerry and Steve ponder the nature of life, the universe and where on earth do we go now we have eaten Yum Cha (all very delicious and in great quantities, naturally!) and shopped at DJs (for a gourmet food gift for Fahmi who stayed up till 1 a.m. to babysit Kerry... a wonderful gesture for any friend to make and worthy of a small gifty or two hundred!)... we eventually opted for a walk back to the car park (just for fun we drove to the top of it and back all the way down again in homage to P!NK the night before.... Kerry has a fabulous sense of humour and made the suggestion, and naturally my beautiful guy and I agreed straight away..who wouldn't ?! LOL) and a long relaxed nap-saturated afternoon before heading to see "Fidelio" (Beethoven's only opera... yes it's frightening the things I know) at the Opera House where we drove into yet another car park!

The opera production itself was marked byhigh drama (and not just in the story line!) when the lead singer did her vocal chords in 1/2 hour before curtain and they had to recruit a subsitute at very short notice (the understudy was in Melbourne naturally!)... so at 8.15pm we finally sat down for the 7.30pm start of the performance and experienced the surreal sight of Anke Hoeppner singing while the original lead spoke and acted... I had no idea where to look but like a subtitled movie, my eyes eventually focussed on the original lead and tried not to focus on the Milli-Vanilli-ness of it all!! High art Milli-Vanilli-ness true but Milli-Vanilli-ness nonetheless... man I need to stop writing that!!

... and oh yes if there was any doubt I am a screaming queen... doubtful but you never know!... then the photo above that includes the front of my fridge covered in hunky semi-naked men should put paid to that!! Yes, outed by my fridge!! LOL