3/6/09

fashion capital

We went to Chadstone Fashion Capital TM last night, for some late night shopping. Actually, no.

It's where you go if you have a brand new iphone that needs fixing by a 18 year old genius at the genius bar in Melbourne's only apple store. Ouch. He didn't even fix it. I guess he sort of did, but now we are waiting on a part to arrive, so we can go back again and pick it up. Cool. Everything is cool in the apple shop.

We caught the peak hour train, walked a mile across a carpark and had ourselves a night out. A blank wander through the food court. A spot in a queue. A sit down on a bench for some people watching. People wearing the clothes from in the shops. This season's clothes from in the shops. Head to toe.

They have giant bamboo growing, which was nice to see. And I ended up pinching some cuttings for the garden, a trailing water plant. Hope it grows. Yeah, you can't take me anywhere.

That said, next up I need an excursion to Doncaster. I missed last year's work celebration, I helped make their christmas extravaganza, I was encrusting reindeer's antlers with glitter for weeks, and now, STILL I've never been. I may have missed my chance to see the reindeer in all their glory, but the donkey is still there... Anyone? A picnic lunch? A train and a bus and a walk across the carpark?

7 comments:

pen said...

let me tell you...... you can get a bus straight there are you won't even have to walk across the carpark.... of course that was in the olden days when the bus dropped you off at the front door.... now it probably drops you off on the roof...... yeah, ok, I admit I grew up out there, in the days when it was exciting to go to a shopping mall with big elevators and the Myers restaurant (which was dark and quiet and seriously cool in orange and green and you could get glasses of cubed jelly with cream and the biggest chocolate eclairs that hung off the edges of the plate.....)
ok I'll shut up now
you can't return to the past

dell said...

Yes, me too... I'm still excited about escalators and cubed jelly, and giant bamboo INSIDE...

pen said...

hope it wasn't fauxboo

dell said...

NO! It was true boo...

sublime-ation said...

I love people watching at Northland. It's my favourite self-imposed masochistic thing to do. I limit my doses to just once a year, before Christmas time, though, cause it makes me cry.

sublime-ation said...

ps do you remember Nat & Ali's Chadstone Drinking Game?
http://sublime-ation.blogspot.com/2005/10/is-it-really-end-for-na.html
Good times.

dell said...

Ha, perfect, must remember to take some UDL's on the donkey picnic sub. In honour of the ladies formerly known as nat&ali.