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We spent this morning planning a few awesome day trips. We’re going on one tomorrow, I’ll be sure to write all about it. (ooooh, the suspense, it’s killing you, I know…)

Then we headed to the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art because it was downpouring (apparently we brought the rain from Ithaca, they hadn’t seen rain in several months here). One exhibit was basically a 2-D pool drawn on canvas that, from above, was supposed to look 3-D. I guess it kind of does (see above). Another exhibit were these awesome flower things. They were Chinese-fortune-teller-like origami flowers that opened and closed and moved up and down. They reacted to the motion of the people around them, and moved in waves and patterns. Pretty Cool. There was also an experimental film exhibition by the Neistat Brothers that played shorts on a screen. They were pretty random, everything from showing a mouse getting trapped in a mouse trap (gross) to a re-enactment of the Jurassic Park trailer using green army men and other various props (awesome). It was pretty cool and interesting.

Then we walked around the Hay Street Mall (like the Commons, closed off to car traffic) which was cool, but everything closed at 5 pm. On a Saturday. Weird, huh?

So on a random note, I’ve decided that I’ll start writing about things that are different here than at home. First observation: Australia’s traffic signs are nicer (“Give Way” instead of “Yield”).