Dali all night long - or GYOFB, art flavour. So the National Art Gallery of Victoria had an exhibition of Dali's work showing. It finished at 5pm today. The exhibition was open to the public all last night.→[More:]
Elephantday and I trotted along. 11pm sounded like a nice time to get there, have a wine or two, amble around the exhibit, and head off home before 2am.

Not so much.

The queue at 11pm went well down to the Arts Centre. Not long after that - it reached Flinders St. Which is over the Yarra River from the Art Gallery. The queue itself went for well over a kilometer. In fact - the length of the queue was longer than the distance from the gallery to my front door.

It was insane. It took an hour, but eventually we made it inside. There we were greeted by my sister, who was a little hysterical. She works back of house in the kitchen, and had started at 4pm. The kitchen was supposed to close at 11pm. There was no way that that was going to happen. She gave me a stern lecture about making sure that I held the sign up high if I ordered food, and stumbled back off to work.

We went into the big hall bit to queue again, and watched the band and burlesque dancers. I also spotted my sister's best friend serving drinks, so I left eday to mind our possie in the line, and I went and scored us a few plates of food and a few glasses of red wine. For free, y'all. Nice.

That made queueing a lot more fun, and by the time we got to the ticket desk, we were firm friends with the people in the line around us.

It was 3am before we finally got in to see the show. then again, daylight savings started while we were queueing, so it was only a 3hour queue, not 4.

Once in, there were so many people it was hard to see the paintings. We had a quick look, but by that stage we were so tired the paintings were beginning to make *sense*.

We stumbled out the other end, and I said goodbye to eday while I pottered aimlessly in the gift store for awhile trying to find a birthday present for my sister. I ended up buying a few presents for myself as well. Like this. The shower cap, that is... the grin came for free.

Anyway, it was a great night... even though most of it was spent queueing.